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mr blur

(7,753 posts)
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 05:51 PM Aug 2014

So, you all know those ludicrous Chick Tracts, right? [View all]

The badly-drawn hysterical "Save yourself and go to heaven with Jesus!" comics produced by this guy:

Fundies love to slip them into people's bags, into post boxes, bus seats, library books, Halloween gift bags etc. Very popular over at loony bins like Rapture Ready.

Anyhoo, one of my fave Chick Tracts is the infamous:

in which a group of naive college kids are led away from Jebus by the evil Dungeons and Dragons

You can read this tract here: http://www.chick.com/m/reading/tracts/readtract.asp?stk=0046

and some dissections of other tracts here: http://enterthejabberwock.com/category/dissections/jack-chick/

Believe me, some of these make you want to have your brain washed when you've read them. Bigotry, anti-gay, anti-women, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-Arab anti-everybody right-wing nasty paranoid bullshit. But, of course, God Loves You! (it's Tough Love, but there you go).

Well, Zombie Orpheus Entertainment is making a movie based on my fave Dark Dungeons.
Freindly Atheist describes it as: "it wasn’t a Christian movie, per se. It was more like the movie atheists would make if they wanted to turn Chick’s work into a really shitty Christian movie."

It's more fun if you've read the original tract but, here's part 1:

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