Jack CHick dead at 92

[Keith&Co.]

I hear that the Chickster is no more...
No one has details on just how he came to be dead, but I suspect he didn't just float up into the sky, heaven-bound.

 

[Atheos]

Sorry to see anyone's life come to a close but the world is minus one talented and bigoted purveyor of falsehoods. That's got to count for something.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Sorry to see anyone's life come to a close...

But they all do, right?

I mean, I won't exactly celebrate his death, but i see no reason to feel bad that I do not feel at all bad that he's passed...

 

[Atheos]

If I follow your logic correctly (and didn't neglect to carry the 2) I find myself lacking the ability to be inclined to feel like I've got any reason to wonder if I need to position myself on the opposite side of those who disagree with your assessment.

 

[Potoooooooo]

I will quote one of my favorite books (Bored of the Rings)

and proclaim his passing
"an occurrence which was greeted with the same universal sense of regret as the sudden death of a mad dog."

 

[ApostateAbe]

The news is at his Facebook page:

https://m.facebook.com/chicktracts/...36937560057/10157595360455058/?type=1&theater

May he rest in peace. I don't know if he served more the cause of evangelizing Christianity or if he served more the cause of enabling the ridicule of Christianity, but I have long appreciated him for the latter.

 

[C_Mucius_Scaevola]

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

 

[Deepak]

 

[Potoooooooo]

Jack Chick sure knew some ugly gay men

and some wimpy archaeologists

 

[Underseer]

The writings of Jack Chick were crazy, stupid, and evil. His collection of writing is a more powerful argument against Christianity than any book by Dawkins or Hitchens.

So, yeah, I really am sad to see him go.

 

[ideologyhunter]

I bought a bunch of the comics for larfs last year, then got royally sick of them... not even offended, just bored. The bad guys are always 10x worse than bad guys in Capra films -- usually portrayed with warts or (wink, wink) hook noses. The pity is, when he died he didn't get to find out that all his shit was fiction, 'cause of course without oxygen, his brain just went ---

 

[blastula]

I'm glad he will finally learn the truth, that Roman Catholicism is the one true church.

 

[skepticalbip]

I'm glad he will finally learn the truth, that Roman Catholicism is the one true church.

Or maybe run into a really pissed off Baal.


But much more likely there is only oblivion so no awareness to be disappointed.

 

[lpetrich]

My first acquaintance with his work was with his creationist pamphlet "Big Daddy".

A student stumps his professor by asking him about the sorts of oddities that creationists are fond of, and he breaks down in defeat. I especially like the part where he argues that the strong nuclear force is Jesus Christ.

I got a copy form my mother, who in turn got it from someone who was handing out copies of it. But my mother's response was that she believes that our ancestors came here in flying saucers. That Chick distributor responded by saying that my mother will go to Hell.

 

[Atheos]

I saw my first Chick tract when it was given out to our 5th grade class in a public elementary school in Georgia. It was a parody of sorts of the "Man Who Had Plenty" parable. A young man enjoying the prime of his life. In one of the panels his balloon text said something like "Hey, let me tell you the dirtiest joke I've ever heard!"

Predictably the guy ends up in Hell, forever consigned to flames and torture. I guess when it comes to comedians God's a tough critic.

I remember being very frightened by the tract; it made a big impression on me. Being handed out in school like that gave it weight that went beyond my mother's insistence about such things or even the sequestered context of the church she drug us to every Sunday. Suddenly it was being presented in the same way history, mathematics, science, etc., was presented. It's not like we hadn't been exposed to that sort of thing all along. Nearly every teacher I'd had up to that point growing up in Georgia started the school day with a devotional, bible reading and pledge of allegiance. But those things weren't actually part of school. They were ceremonies that preceded it. This felt different.

Jack Chick had a way of filling his artwork with the worst that Christianity has to offer: Hatred, bigotry, judgmentalism, eternal punishment and fear. Lots and lots of fear. I'm sure he prospered well from his talents and ability to stir up hatred and bigotry. He and those like him are the reason I ceaselessly fight for reason today.

 

[Potoooooooo]

An important lesson from Jack Chick, never hire a yeti as a babysitter

 

[funinspace]

I saw my first Chick tract when it was given out to our 5th grade class in a public elementary school in Georgia.

Holy Zeus, in public school! All we ever had were those silly moments of silence that most of the kids found humorous. Sometimes it still surprises me how different other parts of the country were...

 

[Atheos]

Time, space or both? I went through school sponsored religious indoctrination in rural Georgia in the early 1960's. Same state where IDiots are continuing to try to get their "science" installed as required curriculum.

 

[funinspace]

Probably a little time as well then, I got to first grade in 1968. So I grew up in a secular society and on Sunday went to a Methodist church.

 

[skepticalbip]

Time, space or both? I went through school sponsored religious indoctrination in rural Georgia in the early 1960's. Same state where IDiots are continuing to try to get their "science" installed as required curriculum.

We apparently grew up in different county school systems. I grew up in rural Georgia too (about half way between Savannah and Brunswick) graduating high school in the early 1960s but I never heard of Chick until I ran into a Chick Tract on the internet probably in the late 1990s. The only mention of god I remember from school was in the Pledge of Allegiance - yeah, we were required to say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning.