so the first time i saw this i thought it was a joke. but then people started handing them out to my cousin in her afterschool group. do people actually believe this stuff?
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp
i especially like the part where the kid "disproves" evolution by saying that "gluons are a made-up dream. no one has seen or even measured them...they don't exist! It's a desperate theory to explain away truth."
2007-05-04 14:41:45 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i know i shouldn't be helping hti sguy out, but it's just too damn funny--i can't stop reading it
2007-05-04 14:48:43 · update #1
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0081/0081_01.asp
i like how it's raining SIN
2007-05-04 14:57:38 · update #2
jiloth: i didn't say anything against christianity, or against christians. i'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy of this particular "tract."
it says evolution is wrong because we can't see gluons but then says god is real even though we can't see him. it's hypocritical.
2007-05-04 15:00:46 · update #3
Chick Publications has done more harm to Christianity than Islam ever could. He breeds ignorance, hatred and bigotry among the body of Christ. Anyone who reads his spiritual pornography comes away more ignorant than they were before being exposed to it.
2007-05-04 15:05:10 · answer #1 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The real joke is this: Some true believer BUYS a bunch of tracts from Chick Publications and GIVES them away. So basically, Jack Chick has found a neverending revenue stream.
2007-05-04 21:45:30 · answer #2 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Jack Chick may be a joke, but a whole lot of people ain't laughing. They buy those wretched little dog piles of propaganda and outright lies, then leave them where people can find them. "Tract witnessing," they call it.
Chick tracts are anti-Catholic, anti-Semetic, anti-just about everything you can think of that isn't fundamentalist based. It's hard for me to believe that anyone can take them seriously, but based on the number sold and the fact that you can find them in almost every Bible bookstore, somebody's buying them.
2007-05-04 21:48:59 · answer #3 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
There are lots of things no one has seen.
Bosian String Theory, which is, admittedly, not the most popular of the string theories, but one of the original, included a Tachyon which is a particle that HAS to travel faster than light. Because of this the theory is not held in high respect, but one day Science could prove it and then it shoots Einstein up the tubes.
Today, a Girl linked up to a science site that said, conclusively, that only G stars can supports planets with life.
However the 30 Light Year star with what they call a "life potential planet" (conjure due to wave undulations) is around a Red Dwarf, which is NOT a G class planet.
So Science is now contradicting itself.
Shall we go to the classic. I was TAUGHT difinitevely in High School, Grammar School and College PLUTO WAS A PLANET and the solar system had 9 Plantes.
This is NOT what kids are taught today.
To based EDUCATION and YOUR LIFE on WEAK theory is no better or no worse than to base it on Religion.
I strongly feel that until at least honors Science in 12th grade, ONLY science that can be PROVED again and again with EXPERIMENTS the students or teacher can run should be taught and NOTHING ELSE
No Theorietical science to 14 year olds.
2007-05-04 21:56:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
Ah yes, good ol' Jack Chick. He's gotten fans for all of the wrong reasons. I know some atheists who collect his tracts for fun. Check out these Jack Chick parodies:
http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick/archive.html
2007-05-04 21:45:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
If you look at their site, they act like people actually believe them. I've had someone give them to me because he knew I thought they were funny...because their so stupid.
I mean, come on, there is no world "Illuminati" or whatever out trying to subjugate the world. That's just plain inane.
Edit: I just looked at that particular one. It's particularly stupid. "No gluons", yeah, right. "They haven't been seen so they don't exist." Does this mean God doesn't exist? No one's ever seen him.
2007-05-04 21:46:05 · answer #6 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Otherwise known as jacKKK chicKKK....
For anyone who cares...these tracts inspired Karl Keating to rebuke chicKKK's tracts on www.catholic.com which is dedicated to Catholic Christian apologetics.....so some good may come of it after all.
Wonder if this guy ever read Jesus' commandment about LOVE???
2007-05-04 22:06:13 · answer #7 · answered by Chiquita 1 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Yes, he's a nut, and yes, some people actually believe that stuff. I'm more horrified at the idea of proselytizing to other people's minor children without their permission, though.
2007-05-04 21:50:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
the man was vehemently opposed to roman catholicism. his misleading tracts are ridiculous and have no truth to them. sadly some people believe the mindless ramblings and drivel that comes from these tracts.
2007-05-04 21:51:50 · answer #9 · answered by fenian1916 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
He does not believe in baptism in Jesus' Name as the bible teaches.
See Acts 2:38
2007-05-04 21:52:03 · answer #10 · answered by Southern Apostolic 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋