In this thread, some friendly advice from Jack T Chick

*gasp* they used the scientific method! BURN THE WITCHES!

The thing about the anti-Harry Potter hysteria that I think is especially misguided is that, the books are essentially benign fantasy novels, much as Tolkien's output was to earlier generations...I can't imagine being a kid and reading the books and then being inspired to pursue actual witchcraft. The fundamentalist Christian contingent's energies would presumably be better spent getting upset about those actual witchcraft-for-teens cutesy books that are marketed towards adolescent girls...or the simple fact that kids can look up all manner of occult stuff on the web.

I actually do believe that one can in some sense manipulate occult energies or draw up "dark" forces, but I can't imagine Harry Potter books or films ever being a "gateway" seducing kids into those sorts of practices. At most, it's a gateway towards dressing up as characters from the book during Halloween, or buying more Harry Potter merchandise, or...actually sitting down and reading a book instead of playing video games or watching television.

bad bob has always been one of my favorite chick tracts:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/0021_05.gif

corny indie fuXors love God!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/0021_08.gif

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1033/1033_01.asp

Ah man, some of these recent ones are fuckin doozies - kids becoming serial killers because they found out Santa's not real and a judge being allowed to try a kid whose life he'd previously saved, despite having sent him a birthday card every year. This guy just keeps on GIVING.

holy crap, i was just about to look for a chick thread to revive to brag that i found the "trust me!" tract on the sidewalk this afternoon.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0025/0025_01.asp

http://www.chick.com/tractimages15888/1033/1033_14.gif

My favourite ever one was some Hitler Youth looking kid pointing at the typical smug-godbothering wise grandpa figure, scfreaming "I HATE YOU AND YOUR JESUS! I HOPE THE HEALERS KILL YOU!" with a look of genuinely unsettling hatred on his face. I unwisely tried to use it a poster image for a clubnight once but the promoter nixed it cos he was scared of getting bricked by fundies.

Slightly off topic, but this morning on God Hates America: Tammy in HELL!!

http://www.godhatesamerica.com/

When a priceless carpet is permanently stained, its owner learns that only Jesus' blood can remove the stain of sin.

This shit is parody-proof

Poe's Law: satire masquerading as fundamentalism is indistinguishable from the real thing.

IT'S AIDS!

WELL SHUT MAH MOUTH!

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lol corny indie fuxor rainbow shirt

whoops - well it's the one upthread anyway

corny indie Xtian fuXor gets sonned by angry biker/meth-dealer in a prison beef ...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/0021_08.gif

... and thereafter starts harboring very un-Xtian, violent revenge fantasies:

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF024AD-Nice_T_Shirt.jpg

u read my mind

It's sad how the kids always seem to get molested at the end of these biblical comics. O well.

Is someone else drawing the tracts these days? Theyre starting to look more like a Viz comic strip than anything!!!

And holy shit the logic behind that "there is no santa so kid became a psychokiller" one o_O

Ranger hat kid upthread looks like what would have happened when Linus Van Pelt finally grew up and became the hippie we all knew he was.

Also I refuse to believe anyone's led a stunted enough life they'd actively not know who jesus was.

Then again, I am protesting the logic of a Chick tract. Why am I doing this.

http://www.chick.com/tractimages15888/0041/0041_10.gif

LOL priorities.

http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/?action=view¤t=spoon.jpg

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Back in the nineties there used to be lots of retouched Jack T. Chick comics available in the net; my favourite one was an edited version of the trucker tract, where the two greasy truckers are homophobes instead of Jesus-deniers, and the big muscular guy who comes to talk to them isn't a Christian but a gay man, who ends up converting them to the joys of sodomy. But most of these comics were removed at some point, because Jack Chick had threatened the various sites showing them with legal action.

Back in the nineties there used to be lots of retouched Jack T. Chick comics available in the net; my favourite one was an edited version of the trucker tract, where the two greasy truckers are homophobes instead of Jesus-deniers, and the big muscular guy who comes to talk to them isn't a Christian but a gay man, who ends up converting them to the joys of sodomy. But most of these comics were removed at some point, because Jack Chick had threatened the various sites showing them with legal action.

it's still here, tuomas

Yeah, but those seem to be redrawn versions of the original strips instead of retouched ones (most likely done so to avoid the aforementioned legal action), and there were a lot more of them available back then.

Ooh thats odd, some of thedirect links are now not working and they were earlier today. Access log mayhem!

It was only a matter of time until someone made a live action movie based on the tracts
http://www.316now.com/heaven.html

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp

Lovely attention to detail on this one. You can see every single line in the angry guy's face! beware the moon god! and non-towelheaded-but-mustachio'd butch men bearing tautologies!

<i>Do you accept Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour?

[ ]Yes [ ] No _______Date</i>

If you want your personal theology and religon reduced to the level of 8-year-olds passing notes in class, feel free to check the appropriate box.

Oh yeah, and England is being brought to its knees, apparently.

damn bbcode

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08192008

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D08192008

THE TRUTH ABOUT WHEN HIPPOS PEE

Hey computer man!

What's the one where some guy is lead to sin by his best mate, they wake up in hell, then his mate pulls off his face and he was actually THE FUCKING DEVIL ALL ALONG. That's my favourite, it's called GOTCHA! or TRICKED YOU! or something.

Shrek: Outhouse

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Photo/2004/12/11/1102786120_7673.jpg

Shrek comes out of the outhouse.
He looks at the valley.
Shrek is happy, proud and content.

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/?attachment_id=83672

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Ockham/lisa1.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Ockham/lisa2.jpg

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I came.

"Good news, honey. Your daddy and I will never hurt you again. You're about to be put in a foster placement and he's looking at some jail time for raping you anyway."

"You got a job?" is an awesome pre-emptive shootdown of the I found God revelation though.

is it me or is it kinda weird that Chick just skips the actual praying both times in that strip. Like, I wonder what magic happens in those "10 minutes"

This one's a doozy:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP

Legendary, that one.

Wait is the dude still alive?