Do any of the religious types around here have and explanation for this?

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by MRT144
now the idea of a daughter using a mind control spell so her father could buy her 200 dollars worth of more D&D crap...thats aiming low.

It seems like he is actually legitimizing the occult... if I were preaching against occult stuff, I would certainly not give examples of how it worked. I thought the whole point was that it was false...

Are they lobotomized?

A nutcase is a nutcase, whether they are religious, atheist, liberal, conservative... the guy is crazy and that's no fault of religion. Doubtless, if brought up beleiving in some other cause he'd be writing tracts about something else.

[Kropotkin]

There was a quite bizarre murder in Sweden a year ago or so linked to roleplaying. I'm not sure if they ever found a real, solid connection between the two things. Besides that both the killer and the victim played the game. It was some kind of live vampire roleplay, not the good old game with a couple of dices. It's was both amusing and at the same time somewhat distrubing to read what journalists that didn't have a clue about it wrote about it, both in the tabloids and more 'serious' papers.

In my book, religion has so far been a source for so much more wrongdoing that roleplaying can ever cause even if there would be some kind of link between roleplay and violence. Something I seriously doubt. Obviously, religious people that doesn't even know what they are talking about would never take that into consideration.

[MRT144]

i love how he gets history mixed up with relation to catholics

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5023/5023_01.asp

aparently the pentecostals and southern baptists were around in 400 b.c. and are the true church. nevermind the fact that protestantism came from catholicism and that before the reformation there was practicly no other christian denomination other than catholicism.

edit: note the angry jesus ruling from heaven. pure comedy gold!

[Kropotkin]

What about the orthodox church?

[MRT144]

well besides the orthodox church, but i was assuming her never heard of it. and considering that he solely demonizes the catholic church...i dont think it really matters.

[Dinner]

Orthodoxy, Copts, Marionites, and several orther eastern subgroups existed. I believe there was even a small group of christians in China though I can't remember their name right now.

[Kropotkin]

As a side note, I myself roleplayed for several years, both as a DM and a regular player. And I was NEVER invited to join any form of occult group. I'm really dissapointed.

[Elok]

Oerdin:
Try "Boo!," on the same site. It's even worse. Or "The Traitor" or "Trust Me," like I said. I can't remember the title of the one with the bully. Also "The Holocaust," which explains how the pope was responsible for it all, and there's a big catholic conspiracy to conquer america and apple pie and replace it with wicked idol worship and blah blah blah.
It's not religion in general that makes you that crazy. It's just chick's peculiar blend of hyper-right-wing paranoid pseudo-gospel televangelist rant. I think it's the natural fusion of the cynicism of the baby boomers and the comparatively normal zealousness of Billy Sunday back in the thirties.
MRT: I said much the same thing about pro-choicers. I only got kvetched at. Learn from my mistakes; generalized insults just make the people you mock think you're an ***hole. Come on now.

[Stefu]

Someone else reads Something Positive! w00t!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by MRT144
i love how he gets history mixed up with relation to catholics

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5023/5023_01.asp

aparently the pentecostals and southern baptists were around in 400 b.c. and are the true church. nevermind the fact that protestantism came from catholicism and that before the reformation there was practicly no other christian denomination other than catholicism.

edit: note the angry jesus ruling from heaven. pure comedy gold!

Actually, Satan going "I got it!" is the true bit of comic masterwork in that one!

I suggest Chick read "A History of Religious Ideas" so he learns what absolute bunk his theory on Semaris is.

[MRT144]

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1710/1710_01.asp

the way in which he portrays native americans is hilariously intolerable

edan: i am an *******. but im a christian ******* and thats good enough for god.

[Dinner]

The ancient Chinese Christians were called Nestorians. They were a tiny minority but still interesting to read about. Here is a link.

[Jack the Bodiless]

Well, these claims that kids might be learning about the "real occult" have been scientifically tested...

Spellcasting 101: Don't Try This At Home

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by Jack the Bodiless
Well, these claims that kids might be learning about the "real occult" have been scientifically tested...

Spellcasting 101: Don't Try This At Home

ROTFL

[centrifuge]

BTW, Jack Chick seems to spew the same perverse rhetoric I've heard time and time again from misinformed "Catholic bashers." This is the first time that I've read his "comics" but he's showing the wisdom that only a misinformed, mental patient would possess.