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One of our chatters who showed up in this forum a few months ago and is into repetitive sermonizing, also is into the repetitive posting of rather hateful religious-based cartoons. He has now posted and reposted the very same cartoons literally dozens and perhaps hundreds of times. So let’s take a closer look at the background of these cartoons:
“Jack Chick became somewhat famous through his "Chick Tracts," small, objectively bad mini-comics with a overtly Christian Revivalist message. He'd sell them to anyone, but they largely went in bulk to churches who would distribute them locally.
He only repeated one story over and over and over: "If you don't practice my specific form of religion, you're going to burn in Hell for all eternity." The stories were all poorly written -- even setting aside the wow-this-is-a-flimsy-straw-man-argument-even-as-far-as-straw-man-arguments-go exchanges -- with barely coherent plots and dated, tin-ear dialogue. Coupled with being so unapologetically preachy with a seeming naivete about just about everything -- for literally over half a century! -- it's little wonder these became booklets with high kitsch value.
But here's the thing about Chick: he spent his career espousing hate speech. Every one of his books damns some group or another, generally literally casting representatives in the pits of Hell. He attacked or demeaned, as near as I can determine, every type of person in existence except for those who practiced his specific religion. He seemed to be against so many types of people, it became impossible to take him seriously.
Chick spread hate and actively fanned the flames of ignorance for over fifty years and, as insane as it sounds to most (I hope) people, there's a contingent out there who lapped it up. Who said, "Yes, Jack, you're right! These heathens deserve nothing but disdain and I shall act accordingly!"
He claimed he only wanted to see people change their ways so they could be "saved" but that's as flimsy a straw man argument as any in his tracts. He cultivated hate and fear, and earned his living encouraging nothing but negativity.”
So there you have it. Just wanted to let you know a bit about the person who created all of those hateful cartoons tha we have been subjected to 9vdr the last few months.
“Jack Chick became somewhat famous through his "Chick Tracts," small, objectively bad mini-comics with a overtly Christian Revivalist message. He'd sell them to anyone, but they largely went in bulk to churches who would distribute them locally.
He only repeated one story over and over and over: "If you don't practice my specific form of religion, you're going to burn in Hell for all eternity." The stories were all poorly written -- even setting aside the wow-this-is-a-flimsy-straw-man-argument-even-as-far-as-straw-man-arguments-go exchanges -- with barely coherent plots and dated, tin-ear dialogue. Coupled with being so unapologetically preachy with a seeming naivete about just about everything -- for literally over half a century! -- it's little wonder these became booklets with high kitsch value.
But here's the thing about Chick: he spent his career espousing hate speech. Every one of his books damns some group or another, generally literally casting representatives in the pits of Hell. He attacked or demeaned, as near as I can determine, every type of person in existence except for those who practiced his specific religion. He seemed to be against so many types of people, it became impossible to take him seriously.
Chick spread hate and actively fanned the flames of ignorance for over fifty years and, as insane as it sounds to most (I hope) people, there's a contingent out there who lapped it up. Who said, "Yes, Jack, you're right! These heathens deserve nothing but disdain and I shall act accordingly!"
He claimed he only wanted to see people change their ways so they could be "saved" but that's as flimsy a straw man argument as any in his tracts. He cultivated hate and fear, and earned his living encouraging nothing but negativity.”
Jack Chick, The Hate-Monger
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So there you have it. Just wanted to let you know a bit about the person who created all of those hateful cartoons tha we have been subjected to 9vdr the last few months.