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Damn. That’s bad.

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There is also the song by Alice Donut called "Lisa's Father", about a Chick track. They used to play this on the college radio station years ago.

https://youtu.be/092DUlx2hX0

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“Martyrdom is now the price of salvation.”

And apparently salvation is being allowed to shop at a grocery store. True salvation means you get to buy chocolate.

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Jack Chick also hates dentists? Super confused.

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Apr 14·edited Apr 15

In that last video, one of the buybull verses mentiona an ''abomination''. I wonder how many future MAGAts turned that into an ''Obama Nation'' in their vacant, but cruel, minds.

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back in the days when every third stoop of brownstones in Park Slope, Brooklyn had a box of books with "take some" Sharpied on them, I came across and grabbed right up one that not only had TWO of EVERY Chick pamphlet, but also the complete run of his full-sized comic books - with multi-issue series on such delights as how the Roman Catholic Church (aka"The Whore Of Babylon"" created Islam as part of its conspiracy to destroy Protestantism (pretty foresightful, if you think about it, getting on that wagon some eight centuries ahead of time - Chick never accused The Vatican of being stupid or clueless) .

To date, these AMAZING works of that particular genre hold a treasured place on my my bookshelf.

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I first encountered Chick's pamphlets in Memphis, TN in the late 70's - when every public telephone's shelf seemed to have a new one every week.

Some years later, in Brooklyn, when every third stoop of the brownstones in Park Slope had a box of books with "take some" Sharpied on them, I came across and immediately grabbed right up one box that not only had TWO of EVERY Chick pamphlet, but also the complete run of his full-sized comic books - with multi-issue series on such delightful exposes such as the one on how the Roman Catholic Church (aka"The Whore Of Babylon") created Islam as part of its conspiracy to destroy Protestantism (pretty foresightful, if you think about it, getting on that wagon some eight centuries ahead of time - but, then, Chick never accused The Vatican of being stupid or clueless) .

To date, these AMAZING works of that particular genre hold a treasured place on my bookshelf. (Wouldn't they on yours?)

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Apr 14·edited Apr 14

I remember a Christian propaganda film shown after my moderate southern Baptist church was taken over by the evangelicals. The mark of the debil was a barcode on your forehead. Why they didn’t do the inside of the wrist or on an ankle I have no idea, but there you have it. Not how or why they got these marks.

There was also a scene showing torture of the children who were persecuted because they wanted to dedicate their lives to Jeebus by stabbing sharp sticks into their ears. I was probably 13 when they showed it to the kids in Sunday School, some much younger than me.

It was terrifying and brutal and did what it was designed to do. Scare the shit out of kids to make them Christians.

And these RWNJ Christofascists are threatened by a book in the library and claim that librarians are grooming kids. Go figure their pretzel logic there.

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Rereading Jack Chick's comics reminds me of the "Rock Devil Rock" CHiPs episode featuring the band Murdoch created for the show. Hilarious!

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The only people I"m aware of having a giant portable guillotine were the MAGAts on Jan. 6.

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I don't know, I always thought their song "We're gonna Roll Roll Roll Roll with the ROLL" was better than "We're gonna Rock Rock Rock Rock with the ROCK."

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I liked the one featuring Satan at the head of a HUGE table as a CEO type. Of course he is the best looking one in the room, quite nattily attired, in complete control with everyone calling him "Master" His "minions" all are kind of ugly with crooked teeth, and wearing ratty looking robes. I imagine this is how Trump envisions himself at a Cabinet meeting.

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Been seeing those weird little tracts for years, but never knew the artist's name. Until now. Is he the same guy who started Chick-Fil-A?

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That was Ashley Biden, wasn't it. I KNEW the one who hangs out with Joe was a body double.

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Does anybody know why the 'stack won't let us enlarge the page in the browser so we can read these images, which I'm sure are ironically hilarious?

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