Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Cast a vote, get a Jack Chick tract!
As usual, I voted today at my neighborhood Southern Baptist Church and, as usual, I picked up a Jack Chick tract and, as usual, I feel led to share it with y'all!
For what it's worth: Dr. ER voted for Hill, and I voted for Obama. How Oklahoma will go I really have no idea.--ER
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Ha! Wonderful. Love means always having to say your sorry.
I honestly wonder what Chick would make of Martin Luther, were he aware of Table Talk? Luther had a scatological vocabulary to curl eyebrows, a never-ending fascination with bowel functions and their end results, and s highly sexualized view of human relations. Full of good German beer, he would wax slurrily and profanely for hours on all sorts of topics, which his fellow tavern-goers would dutifully copy on napkins, table cloths, whatever was handy, to be saved for posterity. Were we to have only his theological writing, we would have no idea how gloriously earthy Luther was.
I just saw that, via exit polls, OK is called for Clinton. IL, barely fifteen minutes after closing time, was already called for Obama (not necessarily a surprise). NJ for Clinton (again, no surprise). I'm going to check one last time before I head out in our wonderful snowstorm (second time in three nights I get to drive nine miles on unplowed roads in near white-out conditions) for work.
It is quite possible that Clinton might sew it all up tonight. Or, because Dems award delegates proportionally, rather than winner-take-all like the Republicans, it might keep the race open until the next contests, which I do not believe will be for a while.
I honestly wonder what Chick would make of Martin Luther, were he aware of Table Talk? Luther had a scatological vocabulary to curl eyebrows, a never-ending fascination with bowel functions and their end results, and s highly sexualized view of human relations. Full of good German beer, he would wax slurrily and profanely for hours on all sorts of topics, which his fellow tavern-goers would dutifully copy on napkins, table cloths, whatever was handy, to be saved for posterity. Were we to have only his theological writing, we would have no idea how gloriously earthy Luther was.
I just saw that, via exit polls, OK is called for Clinton. IL, barely fifteen minutes after closing time, was already called for Obama (not necessarily a surprise). NJ for Clinton (again, no surprise). I'm going to check one last time before I head out in our wonderful snowstorm (second time in three nights I get to drive nine miles on unplowed roads in near white-out conditions) for work.
It is quite possible that Clinton might sew it all up tonight. Or, because Dems award delegates proportionally, rather than winner-take-all like the Republicans, it might keep the race open until the next contests, which I do not believe will be for a while.
Ha! If I knew how to draw, I would create a Chick-like tract called "Table Talk" and submit it to Chick for publication, copied to FOTF -- then write an article on the conflagration of correspondence that would ensue.
"To be truly sorry about your sin and quit sinning" -- that's "Repentance," according to this tract, and the hyper-fundie view in general.
Arrgh. To acknowledge your sin! To keep on living anyway! Striving to mimick Christ! Trusting that God loves you anyway! Despite your worst! Despite your pitiful best!
"The Kingdom of God is at hand," Jesus said, we are told.
THAT is the Gospel. "Live like it," is the only commission any of us are given.
And that, brethren and sisteren, really is what I took away from church, before and after I walked the aisle, and got dunked, lo, these many years ago. Before the World, and its bullshit religious religious-cultural power plays, got tangled up in it.
Arrgh. To acknowledge your sin! To keep on living anyway! Striving to mimick Christ! Trusting that God loves you anyway! Despite your worst! Despite your pitiful best!
"The Kingdom of God is at hand," Jesus said, we are told.
THAT is the Gospel. "Live like it," is the only commission any of us are given.
And that, brethren and sisteren, really is what I took away from church, before and after I walked the aisle, and got dunked, lo, these many years ago. Before the World, and its bullshit religious religious-cultural power plays, got tangled up in it.
Here's some excellent Chick-esque tracts. :) Enjoy.
http://www.normalbobsmith.com/publicity&promotion/pamphlets.html
My favorite is "Satan is a jerk"
(warning, some of these contain language not suitable for minors.)
http://www.normalbobsmith.com/publicity&promotion/pamphlets.html
My favorite is "Satan is a jerk"
(warning, some of these contain language not suitable for minors.)
but the tracts are funny.
Generally when ever anyone describes themselves as "normal" they're Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
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