BOO! (Kewl Jack Chick Comix Story Warning About The Horrors Of Halloween)

Chick Publications ^ | 1991 | Jack Chick

[PJ-Comix]

Jack Chick warns us about celebrating Halloween in this comix story:

To see the rest of this Chick Tract Comix story, click on the image below:

[Lurking2Long]

Do kids rules over adults or do adults rule over kids?

Oh yeah, must be the former, this is "modern" America, after all.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Halloween is safe until you tissue homes of BATF thugs.

[tutstar]

We've been ignorin' it for years....it's movie night and pick your snack. It gives an opportunity to witness to the neighbors because they're curious why we don't participate.

[DonQ]

The animous against Halloween began considerably before Jack Chick and his anti-Catholic comic books. I remember a comedic take on that hostility in an episode of Bewitched about 25 years ago.

Chick has almost everything wrong in his story. Halloween is Celtic but not a Druid invention, and Samhain is a month, not a specific day. Jack O'Lantern was an old name for the natural static luminescense otherwise known as Saint Elmo's Fire. Pumpkins in the British Isles, before the strain was improved with American imports, were only about the size of cucumbers.

Halloween was originally a Christian observance. It was the day before All Saints' Day. In antiquity, Christians would make pilgrimages to the shrines or tombs of saints, which often was a long journey. They'd put on special clothes for this trip, and carry with them the icons or likenesses of that saint or of various saints. They'd carry a lantern of some sort (hollowing out and cutting windows in a gourd was one way of making a cheap lantern). Since they were on a holy errand, the pilgrims had the privilege or the right to stop at homes along their way and request or even demand some hospitality, such as food, and the members of the household would be blessed for their generous hospitality (or cursed if they refused).

Eventually, with the rise of cities in Europe, the shrines frequently were within the same city so long journeys were no longer necessary, but the old practice may have been preserved or morphed as a procession through the town, the icons became masks, the hospitality demanded by pilgrims turned into small delicacies, etc. After the passage of centuries, the occasion, like Christmas, devolved into being primarily for children instead of adults and a good deal of its religious significance slipped into obscurity.

[PJ-Comix]

Halloween was originally a Christian observance. It was the day before All Saints' Day.

Note to all you folks who are shunning Halloween because it is a Satanic Holiday---NEVER MIND!!!

[weikel]

LOL Jack Chick the internet's greatest comedian.

[weikel]

The interesting thing is I bet with the address www.chick.com most of his hits are from people looking for porn.

[weikel]

I truthfully think we would have been better off if we'd stayed under England, Hong Kong was run great. Republics and Democracies lead to socialism while monarchies by their very nature tend to be conservative.

[tiki]

Doesn't it mean Hallowed evening? The evening before All Saint's day? Whatever...Many holidays we have were once pagan but the Christians Christianized them. Halloween is only evil if you make it evil. Evil is in the heart not in a silly holiday.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

LOL Jack Chick the internet's greatest comedian.

Jack Chick the internet's greatest unintentional comedian.

The scary thing is that he fosters the illusion that he represents the thinking of all conservative Christians; IMO he doesn't even represent the thinking of more than a tiny fraction of fundamentalist Christians.

[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

Halloween was originally a Christian observance. It was the day before All Saints' Day.

Yes, but it was adapted from preexisting pagan religious customs. As I recall, the Celtic new year was on or around All Saints Day/Halloween, and it was supposed to represent the time when the doors between worlds opened up (ie, a good time to make nice with one's ancestors). In this regard it resembles Mexico's Day of the Dead, which is another example of a Christianized pagan holiday.

[Captiva]

I truthfully think we would have been better off if we'd stayed under England
Huh? My just-cleaned Rock River Arms AR-15 is two feet from me. Can't do that in England.

[Green Knight]

Being a role-playing game player, I've been having a good laugh at Jack Chick for a long time, now. Saw a hilarious comic strip a while back in which someone whose character died broke down and started crying as she was carried away by robed men, while someone whose character increased in level was taken aside by the Game Master and taught more Satanic secrets. The hell?!? ROTFLMAO!

I also heard he wasn't to fond of Lord of the Rings, though I don't remember specifics. Anyone know anything about that?

[weikel]

If England had won the war quickly the French Monarchy might not have been bankrupted in the war with England and subsequently fallen. I think history would have gone better if things had turned out that way.

[weikel]

If you haven't heard of this guy go to his site hes the internets greatest comedian.

[strela]

My jack-o-lantern'll scare away any evil spirits!

My Mossberg pump scares away any that get past the jack-o-lantern ;)

[weikel]

Thats right D&D and punk rock( I actually generally hate Punk rock don't get me wrong) sure roads to hell LOL.

[Virginia-American]

It is about as satanic as groundhog day.

Precisely: They're both so-called cross quarter days, halfway points between the equnoxes and solstices. The other two are May Day and Lammas (Aug 1?). The Celtic seasons began then, eg. Halloween is the first day of winter, Dec. 21 is Midwinter's day, then Feb 2 is the first day of spring, etc. Makes sense to me.