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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeave it to Jack T. Chick to defend the Salem Witch Trials...
One of his latest tracts is an instant classic of wingnuttery - 500 years later, and it appears there are still some whose thinking hasn't evolved a day.
You see, the town and the Puritans did nothing wrong - the innocent people killed were the fault of a bunch of girls who were in league with Satan and an evil slave voodoo priestess or something.
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1078/1078_01.asp
and then there's Jack's attempt at a wacky sitcom family:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1082/1082_01.asp
What's really disturbing is that are tons of people who read stuff like this and believe it - and 95% of them are from the GOP south.
Archae
(46,345 posts)His little empire will go pif.
BTW, anyone notice that "bad guys" in Jack Chick books usually look Jewish?
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)I tend to think the theory that there are multiple artists working under his name may have some validity. They may still be creating these staples of bathroom stall entertainment long after he's gone.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)There are several styles of art in his books. You'll still find newer books drawn in the style of This Was Your Life - that's Chick. Then there's art that looks good - that can't be Chick.
I have seen Chick tracts that look like 24-page Chuck Asay screeds...I wonder if Asay has drawn for Chick, which is something he'd do
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)As the OP states, there are lots of people who believe this shit, who eat it up.
It's just like with Fred Phelps, his daughter is just as bad as he is, if not worse
flying rabbit
(4,639 posts)even if his message doesn't.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Not because he sends a good message, or has such a grasp on our cultural pulse, or even draws that well... But just because these things are so unbelievably goofy, so absurd, and yet, in their blinding-white radical protestantism, so utterly American. They're impossible to take seriously, and they range from hilariously bad to jaw-droppingly offensive... but in their way, they're an icon of (a form of) counter-cultural Americana. Like Mad magazine for snake handlers.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)And he's been around forever. The National Lampoon was satirizing him back in the early 1970s.
Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)As replacement urinal cakes. For some reason a lot of christians seem offended by that public bathroom decor. C'est la vie.
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)He's saying the trials were the work of actual witches and their pawns to besmirch the good name of Puritans and give witches a victimization story to use all this time later. So he's still full of shit, but not quite to the point of actually defending the witch trials.
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Obvious truths are obvious.
ModerateRadical
(5 posts)People still pay attention to Chick? Is it the 50's all of a sudden? Who gives a fuck about that douche, besides my grandma?
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)His pamphlets look like they should be satire of right-wing Evangelicals, with their trainwreck of crude art, offensive stereotyping, logical fallacies, and cultural and religious ignorance. And yet, some Christians actually distribute these things on purpose to spread the word.
This is funny to me.
Also check out the painting and caption from one of his strawman critiques of evolution:
Comedy Gold.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Chick tracts are just priceless.
ON EDIT: Check out the "testimonials" from people who saw the light after reading Chick.
http://www.chick.com/testimonies.asp
Dr. Strange
(25,923 posts)But then, I'm biased.
David Zephyr
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