Jack Chick - A Parody?

[Darrin Drader]

I saw the Jack Chick/ Cthulhu parody (http://www.howardhallis.com/bis/cthulhuchick/), thought is was hillarious,and sent it off to some of my friends. One of them returned with an interesting insight. Read below:

I have to admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the D & D tract. Although there is one thing I always thought I understood about Jack Chick's site - that it is all a parody. I might be wrong but I think he has stuff like this on there to show how stupid people can be - that's why he also has all those cheesy testimonials and pointless messages of encouragement: http://www.chick.com/tracttips/missionaries.asp. I believe he knows that all of it is ridiculous but has created the site and all the tracts to point out the extreme idiocy and hypocritical human nature. I take the D & D tract like one massive 'What parents should know about their Children playing D & D' line of reasoning that we heard so much about in the 80's (Geraldo Rivera etc.). Oh well I guess we're all going to hell, I might as well skin the neighbors cat after all.

 

[BOZ]

it's a good question. is he really that nutso, or is it a good act?

 

[Pielorinho]

Whether he is or not, there certainly are folks who are nutso enough to believe him. When getting my car back from a local garage, I noticed that they had a basket of Chick pamphlets by the cash register.

Call me a bigot, but I'm not taking my car back there. I like my business relationships free of brimstone, thankyouverymuch.

I lean toward nutso.

(Shut up, you!)
Daniel

 

[LostWorldsMike]

it's a good question. is he really that nutso, or is it a good act?

All I need to know about Jack Chick I learned from the excellent magazine The Imp... That and a friend of mine who has corresponed with the man.

Chick isn't acting; he truly believes in what he's doing. He may be misguided (okay, he's magnificently misguided), but he means well. For whatever that's worth.

 

[Silver Moon]

...he truly believes in what he's doing. He may be misguided but he means well. For whatever that's worth.

I believe that, but what scares me is the easily influenced people who buy into every said verbatim. Back in High School I was given the Chick tract titled "It is a sin to have long hair". That was the late 70's, and my hair was down to below my shoulders. The guy who gave me the tract had read it and then gotten himself a crew cut. He honestly thought that telling me to get a haircut was the way to save my soul.

 

[Nightfall]

I like I said before the guy that did this...has too much time on his hands.

 

[Gez]

Back in High School I was given the Chick tract titled "It is a sin to have long hair". That was the late 70's, and my hair was down to below my shoulders. The guy who gave me the tract had read it and then gotten himself a crew cut.He honestly thought that telling me to get a haircut was the way to save my soul.

If I were you back then, I would have answered something to the extent of "You've been lured by the foul lying spirit of that damned Babylonian whore, Dalila! Read the Bible! Read what's happened to Samson! Forsake your evil ways and grow your hair back, knee-cap length!"

 

[Nightfall]

Funny thing about short hair, I just cut mine. It was curly before...but I don't think God judges based on hair length. Otherwise I doubt Cliff Burton is in heaven where he belongs with other great guitar gods.

 

[Gez]

Cliff Burton is in heaven where he belongs with other great guitar gods.

If he's a guitar god, he's probably in his own guitar heaven.


G "And guitar heroes are in guitar valhalla" Z

 

[Gundark]

That's funny but every picture I've seen of Jesus has him with long hair