Chick tracts

branie

Anyone here ever read them? Here's the link, if you haven't

www.chick.com

PatricaMcKay

You know right that they are often widely inaccurate?

homer911

Never heard of them before - they seem to take a lot of "poetic" license with the words they use.

If find the concept weird. The use of a comic book style for the less well educated with some very serious commentary doesn't sit well together for me. The embellishment of Biblical facts with extra comments without distinguishing them from what appears in the Bible I would also be unhappy with - See this story as an example: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0295/0295_01.asp

Interesting mission, but I had to dig a bit to find it "...we publish gospel tracts to win Roman Catholics to salvation by faith."

PDN

They really are pretty bigoted and awful.

homer911

If you are looking for tracts - try this site: http://www.tractlist.com/

(World Christian Tract Directory)

(no mention of chick!)

philologos

This one is particularly patronising.

wolfsbane

homer911 wrote: »

Never heard of them before - they seem to take a lot of "poetic" license with the words they use.

If find the concept weird. The use of a comic book style for the less well educated with some very serious commentary doesn't sit well together for me. The embellishment of Biblical facts with extra comments without distinguishing them from what appears in the Bible I would also be unhappy with - See this story as an example: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0295/0295_01.asp

Interesting mission, but I had to dig a bit to find it "...we publish gospel tracts to win Roman Catholics to salvation by faith."

A sad mixture of gospel and ignorance, with lots of gullibility thrown in. Gives Evangelicals a bad name.

But the medium is powerful. Easily read and attractive, with pictures conveying complex emotions so much quicker and easier than words. I believe Chick picked it up from the communists in their outreach to barely literate peasants.

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branie2

I spotted some of them yesterday on a Christian stand in Galway

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branie2 wrote: »

I spotted some of them yesterday on a Christian stand in Galway

Wow. Not seen them in 30 years. Thought they had gone the way of the dodo.

Michael OBrien

wolfsbane wrote: »

Easily read and attractive, with pictures conveying complex emotions so much quicker and easier than words. I believe Chick picked it up from the communists in their outreach to barely literate peasants.

That says something about the view he has of his intended audience. These are typically aimed at young earth creationists. "barely literate peasants" is pretty much accurate.