New Chick Tract!

[Bereta_Eder]

Re: New Chick Tract!

Originally posted by Lonestar
+ http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1022/1022_01.asp


Woohoo! Chick is telling us to get a Divorce!

Seriously,I think the NASCAR Drivers-with-buddhist wives demographic is pretty small.

first he has an irresponsible grandfather. second he wants to do a very dangerous profession but noone contradicts him?
_"grandmother i want to be a F1 driver"
_"dont forget to tell people about jesus"
eh?
not to mention that that other guy acted like he never heard of the whole package? and how's his wife leaving him just because he said something about jesus?
and what would happen if he accepted jesus but later dissaccepted him? there are large holes in that story

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by our_man
Where on Earth did you grow up Dr. Strangelove?

Some of our Protestants are under the misaprehention that Catholicsm is paganism. My wife is a recovering Catholic who had had people tell her in her youth that she wasn't Christian because she was Catholic.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I really need to stop reading his tracts. I expect to make fun of the bigotry, but in the end, the horror is so intense that it hurts.

I also indulged a bit in this website. Seems harmless enough if they don't produce any violence. Although I'd hate growing up in that or any other "fanatical" environment and I bet those "crusaders" are not much fun to hang with. But then again who knows. "Judge not lest you be judged". (scared myself there a bit )

Their dedication and fervor (to use kind words) remind me of the jehova's witnesses. But why mock them, I'm sure they believe they serve a right cause and maybe they are. But they give me the impression they might be suffering from psychological things. But then again who knows. One can't pretend to know just looking at a website.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I got my face rearranged and my shirt torn up for arguing that Catholicism was a legitimate Christian denomination.

In high school I got into an argument with my best friend's older brother's wife about the same issue. No violence but she kept telling me that Catholics weren't Christians because they "made the Pope higher then god" which I laughed at and explained to her how wrong she was. She also didn't like it when I explained that all the Potestant groups are off shoots of the Catholic Churches.

She first accussed me of being Catholic (I'm not nor is anyone in my family since at least the Reformation) then asked me where I'd learned such nonsense. When I explained that both my best friend and I had learned it in AP European History she then went off on a rant about liberal schools repressing religios freedoms. I did, however, get her to admite that Catholics were Christians in the end.

[chequita guevara]

I met a woman who was a Catholic from Missouri who had hidden that fact while she lived there.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by our_man

Where on Earth did you grow up Dr. Strangelove?

In some parts of the US there are deeply bigoted people who don't take kindly to people explaining facts which run counter to their bigotry. These is where a large percentage of Republican voters come from.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I met a woman who was a Catholic from Missouri who had hidden that fact while she lived there.

The good news is my best friend was arguing with me against his own brother and sister in law. So even deeply religious families can be influenced in a positive manner by a quality liberal education.

[chequita guevara]

Meow.

[mrmitchell]

Being a Christian is about following the example of Christ every day, not just accepting Him as our Savior but obeying His commandments and loving all people just as much as Christ loves them, not mouthing a few words because you are scared of going to Hell.

Thank you, Diplomat. There is not a better way to put it that I can think of than how you pretty much just said it. Christianity is about following Christ, not going to Hell.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by paiktis22


I also indulged a bit in this website. Seems harmless enough if they don't produce any violence.

That depends how you define violence. One thing is killing people, another is "just" battering them, but isn't it possible to define such things as "If you don't convert to the right belief then you will burn in hell" as, if not physical, then psychological violence ? And is the latter not concidered worse because you have a better chance to recover from a physical mistreatment than from a psychological ditto ?

[Bereta_Eder]

Yes I agree with you. I also wanted to make a note about the possibility of psychological violence.

PS I mentioned "not wanting to grow up in that environment" and I believe that or any other "fanatical" environment is bad for anyone and certaintly has a large possibility of including psychological violence and what more so in small ages. However to a grown man, whatever these groups of people say, he can brush it off or accept to listen at his discretion he is already "protected".

[Dinner]

All those Jews, Catholics, and Muslims deserve to burn in hell. Just ask Chick because he'll tell you.

Oh yeah, he'll also tell you Asian women are whores who are trying to send you to hell and he doesn't even like other Protestant groups but who's keeping track?

[Bereta_Eder]

It's in instances like that you feel grateful he never heard of orthodox

[BlackCat]

To brush off something that may be a part of your upgrowing I would imagine to be pretty tough, especially if the surroundings are telling of the horrible things that may happen to you if you do.

Actually, I don't think that those cartoons has any bite unless you have a history of living in an environment were such "stories" are normal.

On the other side, there has been examples of usually sane people that has lost their mind and become intensely religious - some time worse than smokers that has stopped.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by paiktis22
It's in instances like that you feel grateful he never heard of orthodox

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