Does anyone think that Christians are using scare tactics with this?

Question

The Chick publications website is full of comic strips about what is evil in their eyes. Like homosexuality, and dungeons and dragons, and anyone in their comics that is evil has little caricatures of demons coming out of them. I find this to be extremely disturbing. I came upon in last night when I was answering a D&D question about whether it is evil. Are these scare tactics to the ones that follow the Christian religion to remain in their "club". Again, I found it EXTREMELY disturbing. How could they just take anything that they don't really know about it and twist into something so horrid? Are they brainwashing their people? Do you think it is an attempt also for people to buy their book? It's at the end of every strip.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

Lonnie P let's get on it! lol

Sheeple_ranger: that is so hilarious!!!!

Answer 1

Of course. Fear is the only thing they understand. They fear anyone different from themselves because they feel that difference challenges their values and tries to invalidate their beliefs.

They feel compelled to adopt an us-against-them attitude toward everyone not swearing allegiance to their little paranoid club.

The joke is that they're only fooling themselves with this.

The tragedy is that their attitudes distance them from the God they claim to worship.

BTW. I consider myself a Christian. I prefer to speak of the conventionally pious know-nothings as Christianoids. I asked God and He says that works for him.

Just my own opinion, of course.

But it works for me.

Adastra, the Wizzard of Jacksonville

Answer 2

Isn't it amazing how the non-religious crackpots come out when it s an opportunity to bash religion. And they say they are for peace,lol. But your question deserves a Christians point of view so since I am one of the few here, well... I believe anything you put into your soul is bound to have an effect somewhere. Try giving up TV and music for a while and see how much clearer your thought processes are. There is the story of the great king who was troubled after he became a christian. He asked a pastor why it seemed he had this constant battle, like a black dog and a white dog constantly fighting within himself. The wise pastor said " which one is winning?" Well the wise old king thought a moment and then said"it is the one I feed the most". Could we not see that what ever you put in to a computer is what you get out? So, I would say to be careful what you pursue. You will become like that which you do the most.

Answer 3

*I'm not a Christian*
Alright now that its out of the way I would like to say that you can't judge the whole Christian religion on a single website. Instead you should just assume that the website you visited is a dumb site and leave it at that. As for the Christian religion I am starting to feel pressured with the mission trips and all. If I wanted to be apart of their religion I would have asked somebody about it, instead its being force feed through missions trips and through the words of teens. When kids go to these youth groups they are incouraged to bring their friends and to spread the word of god, don't you think they should be more worried about boyfriends and girlfriends, scraped knees, and bad grades?
To summerize I think they are brainwashing the younger kids into spreading the word to everybody. Don't let this website leave a bad taste in your mouth and if you want to try faith pick up a bible before your forced too.

Answer 4

Well, Jack Chick's whole thing has been prejudice and scare tactics. He twists things so far that:

1. It instills fear in people who don't know the subject.
2. It angers people who do know.

He does it to Muslims, Catholics, LGBT people, Wiccans, and people who believe in evolution as well. A common thing that comes up in these tracts is that there's a character who used to be part of the "evil" group being spoken about. They claim to want to reach these groups, but I think it's more that they want to put negative images into Christians' minds before they meet a real member of one of these groups, someone who may change their minds.

I've never known anyone to get "saved" from one.

I collected them when I lived in Orlando, because people just left them all over.

Answer 5

Don't visit christian websites cause quite honestly, most websites, christian or otherwise, are a bunch of flamin whackos. I don't read their comics, tracks, books or anything else. I get my knowledge from the bible, and stay away from these whackos. Actually, I don't pay that much attention to my pastor either. Seems the more other people try to tell me what I should believe, the more I learn on my own and ignore all of them. Organized religion is the biggest downfall of christianity. It's very sad.

Answer 6

Christianity isn't so much a religion as a family of similar religions. While some radical Protestants may frown on leisure activities, such as Dungeons and Dragons, I doubt that more traditional denominations would. For example, try asking an Episcopal priest about D&D.

Answer 7

i think it truly is a results of an analogous scare tactic operating so properly on the man at the moment attempting to scare/bully us into going alongside with em. The "common sense", if positioned into words might want to in all probability flow something like: "Crap! I only realized, particularly a lot all the different preachers say 'trust me, or you'll flow to hell'!! Gosh, if i do not get others to flow alongside with an analogous line, it truly is going to be particularly glaring that i'm a gullible sucker!! i have gotta scare others into my way of wondering, and immediately!" LoL. A cynical thanks to positioned it, i recognize. yet in the route of reality than about the different spin you'll locate.

Answer 8

They always have.

The point is, sometimes it's real.

What they usually show, like the movie "Reffer Madness" is usually exaggerated.

Out here in Troy, NY I see girls giving BJs in the laundramat for $20 a a piece of crack.

Ok

That is REALITY

I won't go back to that laundramat.

I found a safer and better place to do my laundry rather than the one across from Geno's Pizza and NY Pizza on 4th street in Troy where Girls give BJs in the back machine area for $20 day or night.

Everyone in Troy knows that Laundramat!

Tell me I'm wrong.

Tell me that sometimes people get SOOOO out of control it is horrible.

How many people here would shop, eat or do laundry at a place where a girl is sucking a guy off in the back for money or drugs!?

Eveyone here think that's cool!

It is reality and it happens in Troy, NY, come out and visit and find out for yourself!

Answer 9

Jack Chick is a paranoid bigot. He has little to no working knowledge of anything beyond his theology. You should see the accusations he levels against the Catholic Church. I feel that if someone should be mad at the Vatican for things, it should be for the things they actually did do and not what someone fantisizes.

That said, scare tactics are SOP for conservative brranches of Christianity. Perhaps not as extreme as Chick's or Phelps, but bad enough.

Answer 10

I read the entire comic, and you're right when you say that they're taking something they know nothing about and twisting it. Witchcraft is NOT about D&D. If it was, then why did Witchcraft exist way before D&D was ever made? I'll admit, though, that the comic was so off from the real thing that it was actually really funny.

Blessed be.