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sewnsew
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Posted: Mon Feb 19th, 2007 05:21 pm |
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| Who is this person? I hear his name a lot but don't kbnow anyhting about him I am assuming he is anti Catholic.
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Annie
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Posted: Mon Feb 19th, 2007 05:27 pm |
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Yes, he authors little folders and booklets that are virulently anti-Catholic. I can't quote him without feeling sorta sick but one thing that immediately comes to mind is his characterization of the Sacred Host as the "death cookie." His tracts are very popular and sensationalized in a garish cartoon style and format.
Most Protestants won't have anything to do with "Chick tracts," they appeal to a subset of people.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19th, 2007 07:46 pm |
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Jack Chick produces the most virulent, hateful anti-Catholic propaganda possible, in the form of small, pocket-sized comic books.
You can read a Catholic Answers Special Report on Chick and his tracts here.
According to Chick, the Catholic Church is responsible for every bad thing that has happened in the last two millennia including the creation of Islam, the Holocaust, the American Civil War, and Communism. We also keep a huge computer with the name of every Protestant in the world so we'll know who they are when the persecution begins. Didn't you know that?
I was at the doctor's office a few days ago and I found a tract in the waiting room, so I know they're still being distributed. I threw it away, of course.
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Mon Feb 19th, 2007 08:18 pm |
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Chick is a real piece of work in ever negative sense of the phrase. What amazes me is that he continues with his "ministry" and he's been at it for decades.
If he was half as clever and creative for positive reasons, including our faith, what a better world this would be. I'd put him in the same pantheon of bigots as the rabble-rousing Rev. Fred Phelps and that old standby of good old fashioned Catholic-baiters, Jimmy Swaggart.
One good thing about bigots like Chick and Co, they keep us on our toes (and knees in prayer.)
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BodRod
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Posted: Tue Feb 20th, 2007 12:46 am |
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My personal opinion, after trying to read some of his material, is that he is mentally disturbed or to put it another way, out of touch with reality, not interested in facts and details and obsessive compulsive. (Just a personal opinion.)  Last edited on Tue Feb 20th, 2007 12:48 am by BodRod
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MitchyMitch
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Posted: Tue Feb 20th, 2007 02:23 am |
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I grew up reading Chick tracts at my Baptist Church. Comics were far more interesting than serons to an 8 year old.
Jack Chick is an evangelistic protestant. A lot of his tracts deal with finding the "right path to God" through a set of circumstances that show a person being convicted of his or her sins, from homosexuality and atheism, to relativism and, yes, catholics.
Evidently, Chick had a mentor in his anti-Catholic feelings. It was some man who claimed to be a former Jesuit priest what worked as some kind of Vatican secret agent that sabatoged protestant missionary efforts in third world countries (if I remember the story correctly).
A poular running theme in his tracts deal with the Judgement on the last day, where a sinner stutters over some excuse or another for his or her sins, and God saying "Depart from Me, I never knew you."
I never thought of the damage Chick does to all of Christianity by being so legalistic and judgmtenal until my eyes were opened to the love, compassion, and forgiveness the living Christ, and my subsequent conversion to Catholicism.
As Jack Chick works to caricature sinners and people who don't agree with his type of fundamentalism, Christ spoke out against the legalistic Pharisees who sought to pervert the law meant to foster relationships among mankind and between man and God.
A negative caricature of a homosexual does not serve to bring a gay person to the saving grace of Jesus. It does the exact opposite, as it says to the gay "you are not wanted". Other caricatures involve some of the crudest stereotypes of Jews, power-hungry feminists, opportunistic lawyers, effeminate Catholic priests, and godless scientists that border fascism and communism.
These types of caricatures serve only to keep the faithful in line, while sowing in them a contempt of people.
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mrsbill
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Posted: Tue Feb 20th, 2007 02:56 am |
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Most Catholics are probably unaware of the deep hatred which many fundamentalist denominations hold for their religion, but the Chick tracts reveal that hatred in all its glory. The funniest is perhaps the one entitled "The Death Cookie," an absurd reference to the Eucharist wafer which Catholics take during the Mass. In it, we are shown how Satan instructs the first Pope to take control of the illiterate masses with fake magic acts and mysterious mannerisms. Catholicism is portrayed as occultic, with practices stemming from ancient religions in Babylon and Egypt. Of course, it is true that Catholic traditions have old roots, but Chick-Christians fail to acknowledge that all of Christianity suffers from this. Oddly enough, Chick has some very odd conspiracy theories about Catholicism's role in world affairs. Evidently, Jesuits worked with both Marx and Engles to create the Communist Manifesto in an effort to undermine the Russian Czar who was protecting Orthodox Christianity. Unfortunately, the Orthodox church and the communists made a deal which undermined the Vatican's evil plans, so they had to create the Nazi Party in order to get even. However, the Vatican is still evidently convinced that communism will win in the end and so supports communist movements throughout the world.
So, Catholics are depicted as going to hell because they don't actually follow what is in the bible and instead listen to what their priests say. Chick explicitly tells people that they should not accept Catholics as "brothers and sisters in Christ." They are to be treated as infidels, not Christians. I doubt that they would be too happy to hear about this, but that's what many extremely conservative Protestants actually think.
For those who want to see, here is a link, but I warn you it's vile!
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp
Moderators: Feel free to remove the link if it is inappropriate to post. But, this is what I am faced with right now...I told my Pastor today that I am leaving and going to the Catholic faith, and I'm not so sure he doesn't buy into this Jack Chick stuff, even though he probably has never heard of him.
I am beside myself right now because I said to him, in the course of our conversation, the one thing I can't take is the way I have heard people in this church say that Catholics are not Christians, and he blurted out (I could tell it was a blurt, and what he really feels, but he tried to cover it up later), "They aren't!" I thought I would die. I said "WHAT!!!" and he said, "Well, what I meant to say was not all Catholics are Christians, just like not all Baptists are Christians." But, no, I could tell what he meant to say was all Catholics aren't Christians. He spoke what he truly believed the first time and I am shocked, sickened and and shaken to the core right now over it.
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Br_Carlo
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Posted: Tue Feb 20th, 2007 08:58 am |
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God's peace. I understand what you mean--your pastor is saying that if you are in the Catholic church and a Christian, it is by a lucky accident. This viewpoint is quite common among evangelicals. Another good example is in the "Left Behind" series, where a certain pope is "saved" because he comes to believe Luther just before he dies.
By the grace of God, as Catholics we have to suck up the insults and continue our testimony to the Truth. This can be with a firm rebuke. I was once confronted with this: "Mother Teresa was no saint, she was Catholic, and that makes her a follower of Satan." I replied, "On the contrary, anyone who can look at what she did and say that doesn't know the difference between good and evil." Blessings, Br_Carlo~
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Br_Carlo
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Posted: Tue Feb 20th, 2007 08:59 am |
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God's peace. While we're on the subject of Chick tracts, let me relate an amusing incident. While I was employed at an insurance agency some years ago, an especially zealous evangelical member of the Life Underwriters Association sent my manager a Chick tract called "This Was Your Life." My manager, a Presbyterian elder, simply forwarded it to the president of the sender's insurance company, with an explanatory note. That agent's "evangelistic zeal" was quickly quenched! Blessings, ~Br_Carlo~
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Posted: Tue Feb 20th, 2007 12:12 pm |
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mrsbill wrote: For those who want to see, here is a link, but I warn you it's vile!
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp
Moderators: Feel free to remove the link if it is inappropriate to post.
Every Catholic should be aware of the anti-Catholic hatred out there. As Bishop Sheen said, there are not a hundred who hate the Catholic Church, but there are thousands who hate what they think the Catholic Church to be.
Chick tracts show the absolute worst of the anti-Catholic rhetoric. Besides, they're hilarious. It's just a shame that so many people take them seriously.
The Truth is on our side. We have nothing to fear from anti-Catholics.
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Darlene
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Posted: Tue Feb 20th, 2007 03:49 pm |
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Hello Everyone,
I regret to say that I was one of those Christians who handed out Chick Tracts. I was in the Church of Bible Understanding, which turned into a cult. I didn't fully realize at first that these tracts were anti-Catholic. Eventually I realized that they were and we were greatly encouraged when many young people in Catholic high schools turned away from the Catholic faith.
I do remember the tract "This Was Your Life." And I think one of the main characters in his tracts was "Holy Joe" who represented the epitome of a faithful Christian.
I haven't handed out one of those tracts in years! And I will never do so again. Praise God!
Darlene
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