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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/29/2009 : 07:26:14
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Brand new ones, too! YIPPEE! Delectations for twisted fundagelicals
Category: Kooks
Posted on: May 28, 2009 8:43 PM, by PZ Myers
I am informed by Joshua Zelinsky that two new Chick tracts are available. They are, as expected, completely insane. Here are my summaries.
You can sell your soul to Satan for wealth, women, and fame, and if you accept Jesus in your last minutes on your deathbed, you still get to go to heaven!
Catholicism and voodoo are pretty much the same thing, and any good Protestant boy can beat up demons.
Now you don't need to bother reading them.
But you're going to anyway, aren't you?
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Links to these staggering literary efforts are in the link. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 05/29/2009 : 09:41:53 [Permalink]
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| Well, I read them... In his own demented way, Jack Chick just may be a national treasure. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 05/29/2009 : 11:18:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Well, I read them... In his own demented way, Jack Chick just may be a national treasure.
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I agree entirely! Will Rogers he ain't, but, like many another atheist, I wouldn't miss one of his tracts for the world. They're just so, well, demented!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/29/2009 : 16:36:02 [Permalink]
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I've been unable to figure an approach to parodying the last half-dozen or so creations from Chick. But I may simply try doing a panel-by-panel critique, instead.
An utter moron in most ways, Chick shows his true genius by being spot on in finding the best ways to propagate a bigoted and hateful wingnut fundamentalism to the semiliterate and the illiterate. The "2 by 4" inch comic format he uses was not his invention. It first appeared as "Tijuana bibles," which were Depression-era porn comics. Later, the Chinese Communists adopted the format for propaganda. Chick has made the style (but with ultrafundamentalist Christian content) the centerpiece of a publishing operation that has published more printed material than any other in history.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 05/29/2009 : 23:42:18 [Permalink]
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Well, I unexpectedly did get at least a start on an actual parody of one of Chick's latest epics. No telling if I can complete this thing. I'm just winging it so far, and for me, winging it often means an effort collapses. But here's what I have so far:
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Chick tracts! Chick Tracts! PZ gots Chick tracts!
