Posted on 10/24/2016 12:45:41 PM PDT by Borges
He was 92.
May God have mercy on his soul.
I might have disagreed lots with the man on certain things, but I acquired a certain amount of respect for his doggedness and commitment. He might have even won a few souls that way that might not have been reached by any other means.
Also the “dude” from Dead or Alive. So we’re at 4.
Yeah, ‘dark dungeons’ about D&D and ‘the death cookie’ about Catholic communion were my favs.
He believed the Jesuits killed Lincoln and started WWII, the Catholics created Islam to persecute Jews and that there is a giant supercomputer underneath the Vatican with all the Protestant names and locations for the coming persecutions. We still occasionally get these tracts on the car windshields after Mass.
Wackjobbery, but the ideas and art in some of them was so out there it was pretty cool.
Freegards
I wonder how much of this stuff was brought about to get a rise out of the “fuddy duddies.”
This is like a kiddie Halloween level involvement with the demonic. If they really met Old Scratch face to face they’d crap their culottes.
I remember being a kid and going into Downtown Pittsburgh to buy records and stuff. You’d always come home with a handful of Chick Tracts, having been leafleted on every corner.
“if you can’t say something kind, refrain from saying anything”. Ok, I refrain....
He will be missed!
Ringleader? lol Bewitched was inspired by the 1942 Veronica Lake vehicle ‘I Married a Witch’ (itself based on an earlier novel) and the 1958 film version of John Van Druten’s 1950 play ‘Bell Book and Candle’ with James Stewart and Kim Novak.
God works in mysterious ways. Things that might sound like the most abysmal methods of evangelism possible could still play a role in genuine salvations, yet in such a way that the glory goes to the Lord and not to men.
“Long life, as promised.”
Only the good die young
I have that one laying about, somewhere. Doesn’t his “friend” pull off his face to reveal Satan/
Yep, downtown Tucson was the same way. Especially if you were hitting the “alternative” stores. His main audience here found them comedic, probably didn’t help his art style was very R Crumb.
Wonder what Jack Chick will be thinking in Heaven when he’s surrounded by a few hundred Popes?
;^)
To thinking people it would have come off like a caricature of witchcraft, more like silly tricks that had no malevolent content.
You probably would recognize the tracts. Rectangle booklets, scary as all get out and rather creepy - things like Satan wants you!
Sometimes there was some outstanding artwork in those tracts, too. There was more than one artist at work there. The one with the Titanic is particularly notable.
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