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.
― dell, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
bad bob has always been one of my favorite chick tracts:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/0021_05.gif
― Eisbaer, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
corny indie fuXors love God!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/0021_08.gif
― Eisbaer, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― That mong guy that's shit, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― get bent, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― That mong guy that's shit, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Slightly off topic, but this morning on God Hates America: Tammy in HELL!!
http://www.godhatesamerica.com/
― moley, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― That mong guy that's shit, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Poe's Law: satire masquerading as fundamentalism is indistinguishable from the real thing.
― kingfish, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
IT'S AIDS!
― tremendoid, Monday, 23 July 2007 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
WELL SHUT MAH MOUTH!
― tremendoid, Monday, 23 July 2007 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
lol corny indie fuxor rainbow shirt
― Hurting 2, Monday, 23 July 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
whoops - well it's the one upthread anyway
corny indie Xtian fuXor gets sonned by angry biker/meth-dealer in a prison beef ...
... and thereafter starts harboring very un-Xtian, violent revenge fantasies:
http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF024AD-Nice_T_Shirt.jpg
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
u read my mind
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
It's sad how the kids always seem to get molested at the end of these biblical comics. O well.
― humansuit, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Is someone else drawing the tracts these days? Theyre starting to look more like a Viz comic strip than anything!!!
― Trayce, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
And holy shit the logic behind that "there is no santa so kid became a psychokiller" one o_O
― Trayce, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 05:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Also I refuse to believe anyone's led a stunted enough life they'd actively not know who jesus was.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Then again, I am protesting the logic of a Chick tract. Why am I doing this.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.chick.com/tractimages15888/0041/0041_10.gif
LOL priorities.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/?action=view¤t=spoon.jpg
― kenan, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/spoon.jpg
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.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:57 (sixteen years ago) link
it's still here, tuomas
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 07:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Ooh thats odd, some of thedirect links are now not working and they were earlier today. Access log mayhem!
― Trayce, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 09:16 (sixteen years ago) link
It was only a matter of time until someone made a live action movie based on the tracts http://www.316now.com/heaven.html
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 July 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― kingfish, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 07:48 (sixteen years ago) link
<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.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 07:51 (sixteen years ago) link
damn bbcode
― kingfish, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 07:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08192008
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D08192008
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
THE TRUTH ABOUT WHEN HIPPOS PEE
― Abbott, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey computer man!
― Abbott, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― chap, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.myconfinedspace.com/?attachment_id=83672
― chap, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Ockham/lisa1.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Ockham/lisa2.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Ockham/lisa3.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Ockham/lisa4.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I came.
― KOOL-AID MAN, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
"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."
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
"You got a job?" is an awesome pre-emptive shootdown of the I found God revelation though.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― Obama Death Panel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
This one's a doozy:http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
Legendary, that one.
Wait is the dude still alive?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
88 apparently.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link