Leave it to Jack T. Chick to defend the Salem Witch Trials...

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

One of his latest tracts is an instant classic of wingnuttery - 500 years later, and it appears there are still some whose thinking hasn't evolved a day.
You see, the town and the Puritans did nothing wrong - the innocent people killed were the fault of a bunch of girls who were in league with Satan and an evil slave voodoo priestess or something.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1078/1078_01.asp

and then there's Jack's attempt at a wacky sitcom family:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1082/1082_01.asp

What's really disturbing is that are tons of people who read stuff like this and believe it - and 95% of them are from the GOP south.

[Archae]

1. Sooner or later Jack Chick will die.

His little empire will go pif.

BTW, anyone notice that "bad guys" in Jack Chick books usually look Jewish?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. Seeing as how he's 88 and still churning these out...

I tend to think the theory that there are multiple artists working under his name may have some validity. They may still be creating these staples of bathroom stall entertainment long after he's gone.

[jmowreader]

9. The theory is very valid

There are several styles of art in his books. You'll still find newer books drawn in the style of This Was Your Life - that's Chick. Then there's art that looks good - that can't be Chick.

I have seen Chick tracts that look like 24-page Chuck Asay screeds...I wonder if Asay has drawn for Chick, which is something he'd do

[Hugabear]

7. And someone will take his place

As the OP states, there are lots of people who believe this shit, who eat it up.

It's just like with Fred Phelps, his daughter is just as bad as he is, if not worse

[flying rabbit]

2. you would think his artistic skills would improve over time

even if his message doesn't.

[Scootaloo]

4. Jack Chick is a national treasure

Not because he sends a good message, or has such a grasp on our cultural pulse, or even draws that well... But just because these things are so unbelievably goofy, so absurd, and yet, in their blinding-white radical protestantism, so utterly American. They're impossible to take seriously, and they range from hilariously bad to jaw-droppingly offensive... but in their way, they're an icon of (a form of) counter-cultural Americana. Like Mad magazine for snake handlers.

[hifiguy]

5. "Mad magazine for snake handlers"

And he's been around forever. The National Lampoon was satirizing him back in the early 1970s.

[Daemonaquila]

6. I generally display them prominently.

As replacement urinal cakes. For some reason a lot of christians seem offended by that public bathroom decor. C'est la vie.

[Bolo Boffin]

8. Actually, the Chick tract blames the young accusers and Tituba

He's saying the trials were the work of actual witches and their pawns to besmirch the good name of Puritans and give witches a victimization story to use all this time later. So he's still full of shit, but not quite to the point of actually defending the witch trials.

[Zalatix]

10. I remember getting into a big argument here when I said these guys are like the Taliban...

Obvious truths are obvious.

[ModerateRadical]

11. Lol

People still pay attention to Chick? Is it the 50's all of a sudden? Who gives a fuck about that douche, besides my grandma?

[cemaphonic]

12. Like Scootaloo said upthread, he has undeniable kitcsh value.

His pamphlets look like they should be satire of right-wing Evangelicals, with their trainwreck of crude art, offensive stereotyping, logical fallacies, and cultural and religious ignorance. And yet, some Christians actually distribute these things on purpose to spread the word.

This is funny to me.

Also check out the painting and caption from one of his strawman critiques of evolution:



Comedy Gold.

[AngryOldDem]

13. I especially like the "yes" and "no" checkboxes at the end.

Chick tracts are just priceless.

ON EDIT: Check out the "testimonials" from people who saw the light after reading Chick.

http://www.chick.com/testimonies.asp

[Dr. Strange]

14. I like the Chick tract about DU the best.

But then, I'm biased.

[David Zephyr]

15. Is that ass still alive. Jeez!

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