oh. my. god.

[UpsideDownFlag]

ever wonder why christians wanna homeschool?

[GRLMGC]

1. haha

that's pretty funny. It's a joke, right?


Sigh.

I love how they made it all multicultural

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Multicultural my arse

Jack Chick is so monocultural, he doesn't consider Roman Catholics are Christians. And he warns against the works of C.S. Lewis and Tolkien (who were impeccably Christian, but could handle the idea of allegory).

[BrklynLiberal]

2. blech!................................n/t

[mzmolly]

3. Some want to homeschool for this reason, but I homeschool for other

reasons personally ;)

[intheflow]

4. Isn't there some rule about posting obscenity on DU?

This should qualify. :puke:

[brainshrub]

5. I love Jack Chick comics.

I visit the site about once a year. It's a great laugh!

Frankly, the snippet you posted does not scratch the surface of how screwy he his.

The American Patriot is my new favorite RW comic. Google it sometime.

[oustemnow]

6. another Chick fan here

I also like the various parodies floating around on the Intraweb. But yeah, the Chick sampler is one of the best bargains in publishing. Last I ordered it, you could get pretty much every Chick tract in existence for, like, five bucks.

[Sparkly]

21. Chick? Ms. Henn?

Some sort of poultry issue with them? :shrug:

[Proud2BAmurkin]

18. my guilty pleasure too

perverse

[distantearlywarning]

7. You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried. "The Old Devil"????

The first time I ever saw one of these Chick tracts, I was convinced it was satire. As I kept reading, it slowly started to dawn on me that the author was completly serious. Every time I see one of these things now, I have a similar reaction - laughing disbelief followed by dawning horror...

It's like if I found out that the Church Lady was a serious attempt by the SNL cast to bring the word of Christ to their viewers or something. I just can't really get my mind around these Chick tracts!

One question: where do I go if I believe in evolution AND Jesus?

(And why did the author put an OR in that sentence anyway? I certainly have never heard any evolutionary theorist say that believing in evolution precluding believing in Jesus. Come to think of it, I've never heard any evolutionary theorist say anything about Jesus at all. Did Jesus talk about evolution? I don't remember that part in the Gospels...)

[LittleClarkie]

13. ELCA

We're pretty inclusive. In fact, my first pastor explained how the creation story and the process of evolution paralleled each other in the order in which things are supposed to have happened.

So why can't creation be an allegory for evolution. And who's to say how long a day is for God anyway. Or what made the Big Bang go bang. Spontaneous generation never made much sense to me either.

[sakabatou]

19. My mom says the same thing

Both are parallels of each other. It's when it enters science, then it becomes a problem.

[mike_c]

14. dat ole debil....

do dah, do dah....

[DrWeird]

8. homeschool my ass.

they want that shit in public schools.

[IndyOp]

10. The school system 20-miles away from my home

releases their elementary school students from classes - in the middle of the day - to walk over to the local Baptist Church for Bible Study. If children don't want to go or if parents don't want their children to go then the kids sit in the empty classroom until the others get back. This has been going on for decades.

In our local school system determining for whom to vote in the school board election consists of trying to guess which of the candidates are the religious extremists who have been trying to take over the board for years -- they don't ever talk about religion while they are running, but if one gets elected - it is all they talk about. If they ever got a majority the kids would be doing Bible Study in the public school a mile away from me.

A number of my friends homeschool their kids so that they can become independent thinkers and avoid the brainwash. Bit of trivia: A few years ago someone surveyed kids who had been home-schooled and kids who had attended public schools. They asked them whether they agreed with the statement, "Government is just too complex for me to understand." Fewer than 10% of the home-schooled kids agreed, while over 70% of the public school kids agreed.

:wtf:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

17. I went to Catholic school and creationism was mentioned in religion class

in 9th grade, when we studied the OT and the Torah. We learned about other religions and their belief systems also. Creationsim was NEVER mentioned in science class. EVER. :wtf: is up with the fact that people today can't separate myth from fact? Is it generations of underfunding public schools?

[jimshoes]

9. Well that's it...

I'm convinced. :eyes:

[BurtWorm]

11. Jack Chick exalts the almighty through his divinely-inspired art

NOT!

[Dastard Stepchild]

12. why....

that's just plain creepy.

[shesemsmom]

15. Nope

I know they don't want them exposed to us, and like wise....I don't want my kid exposed to some of their way of thinking

[Nordic]

20. Hm, so it's not possible to believe in science AND Jesus?

Only if your mind's the size of a pea, I suppose.

I don't have any trouble embracing both of them.

[ogsball]

24. Not if your a fundamentalist

And unfortunately it is becomming a separating point for many Christians. Creation vs Evolution is a battle not about science but about the nature of Theology and belief.

[Nordic]

26. you know what? I don't give a shit about fundamentalists

I have them in my family and they're stupid, ignorant, uneducated, provincial, and terrified little people.

They're being used by the right-wing to bait us.

Do we take the bait? Sure, why not, we have in the past and we show no pattern of stopping.

[Bat Boy]

22. I....uh....Jesus created man?

I'm...no. That's not the way the book goes...

[ogsball]

23. The Doctrine of the Trinity

says that Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God the Father all existed from the beginning. Also John's first chapter talks about it.

[Bat Boy]

25. Yeah, but Genesis gives daddy the credit.

Apparently the other two were too busy playing video games to get any chores done.

Kids...

[thecrow]

27. Susy needs a clue n/t