Have you ever heard if Chick Publications?

Question

I am an atheist and a close friend of mine who is an Independent Baptist asked that I come see her sing at her church revival last night. I went the revival in support of my friend. Standing in the lobby before the service, I saw some of what looked like tiny comic books, and picked up a few in case I got bored during the service.

I started reading these tiny comic books, and they were each about getting saved. I was incredibly shocked at some of the subject matter and dialogue in these things. One book was actually about how terrible the Catholic Church is. Another was about a boy who commited suicide because he thought h**l was just "one big party where he could see all his friend." (Exact words - honest.)

Are these things for real? I grew up in the Catholic church and had never seen a thing like this...These scare tactics are starting to get out of hand. So many of the things I read in those publications were lies and falsely representing entire groups of people. Is this what the church must resort to in order to get converts?

Answer 1

http://www.near-death.com/storm.html

Answer 2

So now you know the REAL reason you were asked to come to her church

Answer 3

catholic church are not bad

maybe the one who establish and wrote that magazine is NOT catholic

so

catholic church are good

the boy that suicide is a dumb person or wat do you called in filipino

"uto uto"

so.....

pishie

Answer 4

Chick Tracts are nothing but hate material against the Holy Catholic Church. They spread such lies about the Catholic Church it's not funny. The people who print this material need prayed for. Apparently this is what they have to resort to to get people to come into their church, using scare tactics to keep people away from the Catholic Church.

Answer 5

Yeah, I read one of those that was about this Catholic guy who lived a good life being condemned to h**l for being Catholic.

If that's the God we're supposed to live with for eternity, I'll take h**l for 1,000, Alex.

Answer 6

Yes, unfortunately, I have--just wait till you see the one claiming Halloween to be an evil holiday designed by terrible servants of Satan in order to lure children into damnation--that one is at least good for a laugh (if you CAN find humor in such hogwash!).  These are usually handed out in children's candy bags at Halloween carnivals.  

Here in Florida you usually find such things sitting in odd places for those of us who are "wayward" to find them--usually on top of urinals in mens' public bathrooms (I presume in just as obnoxious places in womens' restrooms).  My question is, "Who would pick something up from a public toilet or urinal and then go thumbing through it?" Yuckko!

Oh well, I guess if you are scraping for converts you can't really be picky about where you leave your tidings of God's love lying around. But if only it wasn't for the heavy inks and dyes and the slow bio-degradability of the paperstock, I could think of ONE good use for such an item in a public toilet...  

Answer 7

I used to read those when I was a kid.  In fact, I probably had every one that had been published by the time I was 13 (but that was a long time ago and there are LOTS of them on the market now that I've never seen).

The Chick tracts do present a message.  Unfortunately, they present it in such an overly sensationalized and overly dramatized way that the message disappears.  They're appealing to people's fear, which is NEVER the way to present the Gospel.  

My personal opinion is that the Chick booklets are counterproductive.  They don't gain converts to Christianity, but they do turn people off of listening to anything Christians have to say.  

Please ignore the Chick tracts.  In fact, you might even send a polite, reasoned, and non-emotional note to the church's pastor and explain to him that the over-the-top emotionalism of the tracts not only distorts the truth but also distorts his church's message to the point that you aren't interested in what they have to say.  Your note might do some good and get those books put in the garbage.

EDIT:  Dang, so the Ood are the Elder Gods who are going to eat humanity?  And they seemed so servile and so gentle when the Doctor and Donna visited their home world in series 4.  (I can't be the only Doctor Who fan who sees the resemblance to the Ood in the link that Rufus1975 provided.)

Answer 8

Unfortunately, yes, I have heard of them and read a few. They're disgusting, biased, and worth less than the paper they're printed on, both morally and physically.  

Answer 9

Pretty much.

Those horrid little books would be classed as "hate speech" in the UK.

Answer 10

I'm just waiting for your proof to deny the verity of their claims.

EDIT: I'm also trying to understand, in the Catholic mind, how a little bible tract is more evil than the crusades.

EDIT: Emp, Everything you said about the devil was true. It depends on if you care to see the truth in it.

Answer 11

Chick Publications is a hate group. The spread lies about other religions and misinterpret scripture. The founder is Jack Chick.

http://www.catholic.com/library/sr_chick...

http://www.catholic.com/library/sr_chick...

Answer 12

I collect Chick tracts.  Did you find any racist ones?  They have a few of those too!

The people who hand those out scare me- but the fact that they actually believe the c**p printed in them is far scarier.

Answer 13

Remember those booklets from back in the late 70's while I was still a fundamentalist Christian. They bashed the Catholics and New Agers but did not expose Christianity itself is an offshoot of the pagan Mystery Religions with its shameful history of fraud, force and forgery.

Answer 14

many churches use lies, bigotry and intolerance to get people to believe

I've vaguely heard of Chick before but he's another lying bigot like the pope and phelps and many others

Answer 15

Oh yes, but have you seen this one. Trust me, it's worth it.

http://www.hellblazer.com/media/chick-ct...

Answer 16

Yes , We have them at my church as well. They tell the unvarnished truth . You would do well to take heed.  

Answer 17

Chick Publications is the "brain child" and I use that loosely of Jack Chick a tele evangelist who is a Catholic basher. I really don't know much about him except his is a "religion" of scare tactics.

Answer 18

Yeah they're for real.  Typical fundie propaganda.

catholic church is the w***e of babylon

d&d promotes witchcraft

rock music is of the devil

g*y people are of the devil

jewish people are of the devil

basically if you follow it to the max you become like that phelps guy

Answer 19

Jack T. Chick is something else...

Not for nothing his name rhymes with 'sick'.

His writing reflects a form of absolutely hateful passive aggression. I mean, the guy believes every human being in the world deserves to burn in h**l for all eternity BY DEFAULT.

Yeah, okay, that's healthy...

Answer 20

Yes indeed, I have been familiar with those squalid little rags for over 20 years now.  Jack Chick is a raving nutjob.  Taking his filth seriously requires you to be both gullible and stupid.  Horrifyingly, there are people who do indeed take that excrement seriously.

Answer 21

That sad rubbish was around in the '70s, when i was a fundie footsoldier.

Answer 22

Yes of course. chick is a hater.  

Answer 23

Yes, Chick tracts are for real.  Yes, they obsess about the Catholic church, and they have printed the most vile, foul, deceitful, and hateful things about Catholics, and any number of other Christians who the paranoid delusional Jack Chick had a problem with.  And, being an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist himself, Jack-O Chick had a problem with EVERYbody.  

You need to be aware that, when considering the IFB, that there is nothing particularly Baptist - or Christian - about them.  And as for those Chick tracts, they are far more subtle in the hate they spew than many of the IFB'ers who pass them out are.  

My advice: be very careful about the IFB.  They are a dangerous and hateful bunch; far better that you give them a wide berth.