What do you believe?
CatholicMama
10/2/2006 8:40:17 PM
Oh and by the way, the "sinner's prayer" is nowhere in the Bible!
WaywardSon81
5/9/2005 3:30:00 PM
Hey, even though he's serious, I still like to read those tracts when I need a good laugh. Nothing better than laughing at something that's unintentionally hilarious.
Minos_RedFyre
10/29/2002 9:10:31 PM
I've read a lot of Chick, I thought it was a parody at first too. We printed several for during or AP Bio Class (his Evolution Stuff) Last Year, Even the teacher was laughing hysterically!
Dharmapoet
10/14/2001 5:40:47 PM
Having visited his site and read most of his tracts, I can say that Chick either sincerely does not know what he is talking about or he doesn't care about truth and is deliberately twisting things around to scare people. At first I thought it was a parody site it was so ridiculous. His statements and comics about Halloween, the Catholic Church, Buddhism, Wicca, Dungeons and Dragons and damn near everything else are dead wrong and rather hysterical.
Carolus
7/27/2001 4:57:41 PM
Chick should confide his insanity to the four walls of his room, where it does no damage. The Catholic church has proclaimed the gospel, fought for justice for God's poor, and fed us on the body of Christ for 2000 years now. He should stick his head in a bucket of ice water, and chill!
Ambrose
7/13/2001 4:24:42 PM
There is no such animal as 'Creation Science'. There is 'Creation Mythology', but it's not science.
Ramon_Ruenes_IV
Dreher's teacher had no right to claim the logical high ground and yet resort to argumentum ad captandum. That's a contradiction, which is a logical fallacy of form, and I detect a special pleading fallacy, or one in which someone claims an exemption from a rule he enforces, at play here, too, if Dreher's teacher really believes in conducting an argument logically yet, apparently as a first resort, indulges in logical fallacies instead. One can disagree with creation science without rushing to a priorisms or argumentum ad captandum.
10/11/2000 2:20:06 AM
I noticed a number of things about Rod Dreher's teacher's retort that were logically suspect, especially the flattering manner in which his professor pressured him into forsaking any creationist leanings. That's known as argumentum ad captandum, or substituting flattery for a valid argument. Dreher's teacher had no right to claim the logical high ground and yet resort to argumentum ad captandum. That's a contradiction, which is a logical fallacy of form, and I detect a special pleading fallacy, or one in which someone claims an exemption from a rule he enforces, at play here, too, if Dreher's teacher really believes in conducting an argument logically yet, apparently as a first resort, indulges in logical fallacies instead. One can disagree with creation science without rushing to a priorisms or argumentum ad captandum.
brigid
9/6/2000 7:36:08 PM
Thorolf, Yes the tracts are so stupid they could be funny, except that I have met people who are either so ignorant or so mis-informed that the really believe them. Then it really gets scarey. You can't talk them out of it either. They think that because it's in print that it's true.
cestusdei
9/6/2000 10:50:37 AM
MB, Chick isn't interested in that. He is more interested in spreading lies and hate. The gospel is still going forth, from the Catholic church, as it has been for 2000 years.
MBurke
9/5/2000 8:30:42 PM
Chick is usually right on. We are saved by grace through faith and that's the usual message. Praise God that the gospel is still going forth.
thorolf
They make a handy litmus test - anyone who takes this crap seriously is someone that I'm certain to have little in common with. On the other hand, I've had some wonderful conversations with other people who, like me, find Mr. Chick's fulminations less than credible.
9/1/2000 8:54:27 PM
I have to admit, I find the tracts hilarious (though I'd probably feel differently were I a Catholic...), mostly because they're so far off base about many of the things they fulminate against - at least in the case of his tracts against Dungeons and Dragons ('Dark Dungeons', which labels C.S. Lewis "an occult author") and against Halloween. They make a handy litmus test - anyone who takes this crap seriously is someone that I'm certain to have little in common with. On the other hand, I've had some wonderful conversations with other people who, like me, find Mr. Chick's fulminations less than credible.
hungryghaost
9/1/2000 6:55:41 PM
Jack Chick uses unfounded propaganda and I'm sure if he had his way he would eliminate the free choice of all, just to make them better christians.