(no subject)

[bubosquared]

What I'm doing instead of writing: Reading Chick tracks.

This one's kind of rubbing me the wrong way, because taking back an abusive man unless he's actually gone through therapy? Bad idea, no matter how saved he claims to be.

This one, on the other hand, is just plain hilarious. Yo, Jack, easy on the metaphors, man.

COMMUNISM = TEH DEVl!!11111!!!1!

And WTF is with the fundamentalists in the States (I don't recall ever seeing this anywhere else) and their hatred against the Catholic Church? Not that I don't sympathise, but oi.

Edit: Rock and Roll will SEND YOU TO HELL!!!

Right, so I'm 1) not baptised, 2) gay, 3) semi-communist, and 4) a fan of rock 'n roll. So I might as well be a pervy child fancier, because I'm already on the way to hell at quadruple speed.

Comments

[darksong.livejournal.com]

Chick tracts creep me out.

Of course, I was watching The 700 Club last Thursday because it was Halloween and I just wanted to confirm that I was, in fact, going to hell.

[asilvahalo.livejournal.com]

Catholicism isn't real Christianity, you know.

(1) Most of the original settlers were Protestants, not Catholics. Therefore, most of the Catholics were immigrants. In fact, there was a whole political party (http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Region/North_America/United_States/Political_Parties/Know-Nothings/) bsed on being anti-immigrant as well as anti-Catholic in the nineteenth century.

(2) In fact, a question raised about JFK was if his loyalty to the Pope would prevent him from being a good president.

(3) Most Protestants have a really fucked up view of what Catholicism is. They tend to be taught that we [a] will never go against something the Pope says, [b] worship the saints like gods, [c] worship Mary as a goddess.

Much on this same subject is a really odd thing I've noticed which is that I was always taught that Protestants believe that it's belief in Jesus not good works that gets one into heaven, whilst Catholics believe it's good works and belief. My Presbyterian friend was taught the other way. This amuses me to no end.



Basically, it seems to be a "it's foreign to us, so it's wrong" thing.

[that_mireille]

Jack Chick tracts. Oh, man, those take me back....

I don't know what it is with U.S. fundamentalists and Catholics. I do know that when I taught Spanish (at a fundamentalist Christian school, no less) I had to spend a significant portion of the "culture" lessons explaining that yes, Catholics are Christians, so yes, they celebrate Christmas... and no, they don't eat babies, and no, they don't practice human sacrifice... (I kid you not.)

[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

I reeeeally miss the Jack Chick parody page now. Man. (It still exists (http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick/), but due to a threatened lawsuit, they deleted all the ones featuring modified Chick tracts and now only accept hand-drawn ones, which aren't nearly as funny. Poo.)

[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

Reading the first tract linked - oh, nice. Not only does she take back a man who went to prison for beating her, she then allows him to convert her and her son! "Become a Jesus freak? Well, sure! At least he's not hitting me anymore!" Also:

a) He was only in jail for less than two weeks for beating his wife? Oh, typical.
b) It took him less than a week to completely change his personality? Man, Jesus works fast. Pharmaceutical companies should look into this! "When you want to feel better FAST, try a little Jesus^TM! "
c) I like how once he's converted, he started shaving and combing his hair regularly. Because heathens have poor personal hygiene, but those who walk with the Lord get salvation and free toiletries for life! Who knew?