Alberto Rivera's False Anti-Catholic Story, plus The Catholic Question

Cornerstone Magazine ^ | Gary Metz

[Alex Murphy]

The original article needed some clean-up (fragmented sentences, improper punctuation, etc). I've done my best to clean it up.

[King Prout]

roflmao!

some people actually take Jack Chick (et omnia generis alia) seriously

knowing this, I choose to laugh rather than weep.

[Nihil Obstat]

>>>According to Rivera, Jesuits are responsible for the recession, communism, Islam, Nazism, the World Wars, the Jonestown Massacre, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; he further claims that the Catholic Church wants to spread homosexuality and abortion, that the Charismatic Movement is a front for the Catholic Church, that the Popes are antichrists, that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Revelation, and that the Prophet Muhammad was used by the Catholic Church to create Islam and destroy the Jews and other groups of Christians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Rivera

[Alex Murphy]

I was suspicious of Rivera's story when I was first introduced to it more than three years ago, based in part on eschatological grounds.

Always nice to get confirmation that my thinking is in order :)

[Pyro7480]

Can you say "tinfoil alert"!?

[Nihil Obstat]

Always nice to get confirmation that my thinking is in order :)

OR MAYBE THE JESUITS HAVE GOTTEN TO YOU TOO!!

[Alex Murphy]

OR MAYBE THE JESUITS HAVE GOTTEN TO YOU TOO!!

No way! I was fully protected the whole time!

[Nihil Obstat]

and here I thought the Jesuits were only responsible for crappy 70's music at mass...

[Nihil Obstat]

FOILED again!!

[Doctor Stochastic]

How long before the Chick-ins arrive to support Jack Chick. Those who support Jack Chick don't know Jack Chick.

[Alex Murphy]

How long before the Chick-ins arrive to support Jack Chick. Those who support Jack Chick don't know Jack Chick.

I honestly don't know of any Chick supporters who are still active on FR. If there are any, I'll be as susprised as anyone.

[PatrickHenry]

How long before the Chick-ins arrive to support Jack Chick.

Anyone who supports Hovind probably supports Chick. And we've got our share of Hovind defenders on the website.

[Ottofire]

Just how comfortable is that Anti-Jesuit suit of yours, Alex? Looks like it might just chafe a bit.

[mockingbyrd]

Chick publications is like porn for fundamentalist Christians. It's vile, salacious and some just can't get enough.

[FJ290]

I honestly don't know of any Chick supporters who are still active on FR. If there are any, I'll be as susprised as anyone.

I seriously doubt anyone would admit to supporting Chick, but I think there are Chick supporters here. You can spot them a mile away.

[blue-duncan]

"According to Rivera, Jesuits are responsible....."

No, that was President Bush. An understandable mistake.

[vladimir998]

What gets me is that some nuts STILL believe Alberto Rivera was telling the truth!

This nutjob believes Rivera was poisoned by Jesuits in 1997 leading to his death.

http://www.reformation.org/jesuits.html

[andysandmikesmom]

I had a disagreement with someone on a CREVO thread, right around Christmastime of last year, and she assured me, that I was wrong about Jack Chick, that he was really a very kind gentleman, who really knew his Bible...of course, this poster herself, was very Anti-Catholic, so that would explain her liking Jack Chick so much...and this particular person no longer posts on FR...

[Salman]

I'd read the Chick comic years ago.

I'm surprised to learn that Alberto is a real liar rather than a figment of Jack Chick's imagination.