[elcid1970]

“What’s a Jack Chick tract?”

Excellent question. Nowadays one just says to google the websire, but at one time Jack Chick was a publisher of religious tracts (miniature pamphlets) which told Biblically based stories in comic-book format. He did so from an Evengelical viewpoint but didn’t attack other denominations.

But in his later years (he is a recluse who refuses to be interviewed) Jack Chick has become rabidly anti-Catholic. His tracts are rants, ranging from referring to the Catholic holy communion wafers as “death cookies” to asserting that Islam itself was created by the Vatican!

In other words, a whacked-out fundamentalist nutjob. And I wish to make clear that as a Catholic I embrace many aspects of Evangelical practice, especially Bible study, belief in the End Times, and a direct personal relationship with G-d that doesn’t require priestly intercession.

Jack Chick is laughable. And so is the guy who posted earlier denouncing the apparition at Fatima (provoked by an old photo of the three children who saw the first one; the third apparition was witnessed by thousands).

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

In military/college dorms people would almost get into fights when new Chick Tracts were left in in common areas. Almost everyone wanted to read them. They ranged from hilarious to beyond Rob Zombie creepy.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Of course on that last one I meant unintentionally hilarious. Chick Tracts on death give underground horror zines a run for their money in the too creepy for words department. Chicks’s religious message is buried by the tracts way out there delivery.

[PhiloBedo]

Thank you for the information...I may have seen some of those as a youth. I come from a bible-thumper family, Southern Baptists. (I always get a grin from folks when I refer to myself that way).

Anyway, I have attended Mass several times, at the behest of my girl friends.

I don’t see any point in taking cheap shots at other peoples’ denominations..we are all Christians.