A look at ‘Jack Chick Tracts’
Have you ever been at a bus terminal, or a train station, or one of those fast food/gift shop plazas they have along the interstate? If so, perhaps you noticed, tucked in a potted plant, on the floor of the bathroom, or sitting on a bench, a little pamphlet. Maybe you picked it up, looked at the goofy, cartoony picture in the corner, and read the title. Maybe you even leafed though it a little, and found yourself exposed to some poorly drawn comics, all with a religious message. You might take it with you for the comedy it provided, toss it away and laugh, or, perhaps, take it with you for the message it contained. But no matter what you did with it, you probably wondered – what is it?The truth behind these kooky comic tracts is that they are made by a rather disturbed little fellow by the name of Jack T. Chick. He is a Christian Evangelist and began making the little tracts about 30 or so years ago. They instan
Second, a look at love: The tracts are seen by many as (unintentionally) hilarious, their rabid, First, a look at hate: The tracts are despised by many, and rightly so, for the way they portray people of faiths other than Christianity. They are seen as full of sin, as being wicked, and of course of being demon possessed. By becoming involved with different faiths, these tracts say, you allow demons to enter your soul. The only way to get rid of them is to have some born again conservative Christian witness to you (and in Chick tracts, there are plenty of those around). When the demons are never exorcised, the people of other faiths are shown being killed, and then they are shown burning in hell. History is often re-invented in these tracts, attributing the Holocaust to Roman Catholics (obviously not true), the origins of Halloween as a day when Druids stole maidens to sacrifice (also untrue), and that every last thi
Some topics in this essay:
Jehovah’s Witnesses,
Christian Evangelist,
,
Roman Catholics,
Bible Obviously,
chick tracts,
people faiths,
roman catholics,
conservative christian,
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