…and this is a 
A new Jack Chick tract!
Category: Creationism
Posted on: May 2, 2008 4:26 PM, by PZ Myers
And it's a classic!
It starts off with a little boy getting a lesson in "evolution" from his mother. This version of evolution has nothing to do with what biologists teach, of course — it's bizarrely teleological, with everything striving towards becoming human.
After having evolution explained to him, the little boy turns into an "atheist" (one who's planning to become a god — Chick isn't quite clear on what the whole atheism thing means), and it all means you get to be as evil as you want.
There's the usual stereotypical Chick interlude where a cute little girl tells the little boy all about Jesus. These stories go one of two ways: the boy can find Jesus and go to heaven, or he can reject the message and be horribly punished. Guess which way this tract ends?
This is so awfully, horribly bad that I must get my hands on a print copy.
Comments
Absolutely amazing what people can come up with.
Posted by: Chad | May 2, 2008 4:30 PM
Wow...billions of others believe in evolution?
We must be educating well these days :p
Posted by: katie | May 2, 2008 4:32 PM
Somebody else doing the art for Jackie these days? Those DTs do play havoc with the pen-hand.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | May 2, 2008 4:33 PM
I've got a load of Chick books, each more retarded and shittily rendered than the last. They're like Superstition for Dummies.
It's doubtful that anyone persuaded into lordly worship by these tracts would have the brainpower to comprehend anything remotely scientific anyway.
Posted by: Kevin Hoover | May 2, 2008 4:33 PM
was the cute little girl hot? Did they at least do the doo thing? Questions, questions!
Posted by: JJ | May 2, 2008 4:33 PM
I've wondered how much of Chick's business is to people who buy the tracts for the camp/kitsch value.
I'd like to think it's more than the business he gets from people who take it seriously, but that's irrational optimism.
Posted by: Jim Lippard | May 2, 2008 4:34 PM
You know, this is actually well below Chick's usual standard -- it's not enough to be wrong this time; he has to dumb it down to the point where it's insulting even to believers.
Off to FSTDT.com with this one -- somebody will love it ;-)
Posted by: Brian X | May 2, 2008 4:34 PM
Jack Chick is not a real name is it? I wouldn't put out such insane, slanderious propaganda with my real name!
Posted by: Dale Husband | May 2, 2008 4:36 PM
Chickians are such simple-minded folk. Thank goodness they have the Bible to spoon-feed them with morality. Can you imagine what they'd be like without it? *shudders*
Posted by: NP | May 2, 2008 4:36 PM
If you're an atheist you can lie and cheat?
Nothing's stopping Chick from lying.
I always have to wonder what they think their message is, 'we're such hideous liars, which we blame on evolution, so get rid of evolution so we'll quit being consummate liars?'
Makes sense, except that they show no sign of reducing their lies if we give into them.
Glen Davidson
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Posted by: Glen Davidson | May 2, 2008 4:37 PM
I love the last panel. Worst, Mistake, Ever!!!
Posted by: mark | May 2, 2008 4:37 PM
"I can lie, cheat...What's to keep me from becoming a god?"
Interesting quote there. Certainly his Bible shows that lying and cheating is truly godlike behavior.
Posted by: Levi | May 2, 2008 4:39 PM
Jumpin' Jeezus, that'll even give chick lit a bad name. What a feckin' edjit!
Posted by: Richard Harris | May 2, 2008 4:40 PM
The main thing I've learned from Chick tracts, is that Jesus is a vindictive prick.
-jcr
Posted by: John C. Randolph | May 2, 2008 4:40 PM
Its funny how being a god = lying, cheating, stealing, and basically no morals. I wonder where he gets that from? Maybe cuz that's how his god acts.
Posted by: Dennis N | May 2, 2008 4:40 PM
Huh. It sucks that all the evolutionary biologists I know fail the "blond-haired, blue-eyed white boy" test. I guess we must all be self-hating evolutionists.
Posted by: saurabh | May 2, 2008 4:41 PM
It's hilarious that he starts the comic by pointing out the argument from authority as a lame reason to believe in evolution, then in the end Jesus says, "You heard the argument from authority to be Christian and ignored it! To hell with you!" (I'm paraphrasing)
Posted by: Dennis N | May 2, 2008 4:43 PM
I love how he suddenly makes the leap from "the fittest survive" to "I am Aryan, hear me gas the blacks, brown-eyes and babies!"
Chick's still has relly gone downhill from the Black Leaf days. Check out http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1051/1051_01.asp for another blatant simplification of science ("Apes, Lies, and Ms. Henn," if the link doesn't work).
I often try to imagine the world Jack Chick lives in, and it frightens me because it is full of hatred, anger, and utter disconnect from good things.
Posted by: theShaggy | May 2, 2008 4:44 PM
Why does God have no face? And how come the dog is on crack?
Posted by: Levi | May 2, 2008 4:44 PM
Holy shit, Jack Chick is still alive?! How old is he now, 100?
I tried keeping count of the scientific inaccuracies, non sequitors, and outright lies, but lost count somewhere along the way (although my favorite is the "EVOLUTION" poster with the dinosaur, the spear-toting caveman, and the word "Darwin" at the bottom; just trying to figure out what that has to do with evolution makes my head a splode). Yipes.
On second thought, "losing our tails" being "the greatest event of all time" is also pretty funny.
Aw, hell, the whole damn thing's pretty funny. How do you make fun of people who take such goofy things seriously?
Posted by: jynnan_tonnyx | May 2, 2008 4:45 PM
Jack Chick tract set to music (YMMV, NSFW):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=092DUlx2hX0
Posted by: Cliff Hendroval | May 2, 2008 4:46 PM
Brilliant! Must have a copy. ButI don't think it's for sale around here (Netherlands). I fear we need to ridicule our own Looney's.
Posted by: Branwen | May 2, 2008 4:46 PM
Jack Chick lives in a crazy, crazy world where all kinds of magic is real. I think he might be a Poe. Any takers?
Posted by: Dennis N | May 2, 2008 4:47 PM
T.S.I.B.
Posted by: iain | May 2, 2008 4:47 PM
Imagine the thousands of kids that will read this and believe it. Then they grow into adults that believe it. Fanatical Christians are misrepresenting and scapegoating us atheists in the same way that they misrepresented and scapegoated Jews for centuries. These cartoons might seem light-hearted, but they can breed a climate which is conducive to violence.
Not that they would listen to us if we tried to correct them. They might listen to moderate Christians if they were to speak out, but they seem generally content to remain silent. I wonder why.
(sorry for the negativity. bad week)
Posted by: MH | May 2, 2008 4:48 PM
Fair warning! If you become an atheist, you'll have power-mad delusions of grandeur and become totally EVIL like this guy:
And so I believe to-day that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the handiwork of the Lord.
Oh wait...never mind.
Posted by: J | May 2, 2008 4:48 PM
J, Hitler was not a TRUE Scotsman, I mean, Christian. Oops.
Posted by: Dennis N | May 2, 2008 4:50 PM
Is it me or did that guy in the strip with the golf club look somewhat like PZ?
Posted by: MYOB | May 2, 2008 4:51 PM
Jack Chick wrote: "I can lie, cheat...What's to keep me from becoming a god?"
A complete lack of Godlike powers seems to be one pretty big limitation...
Posted by: gg | May 2, 2008 4:51 PM
It's a classic and it's racist. Chick shows his hand when the boy-who-would-be-god says, "My hair is blond and I have blue eyes. So... I'm above all others. I'm part of the master race." It's as if Chick assumes evolutionary theory says something about the superiority of blond hair and blue eyes over say, myriad colored scales and compound eyes. What gives? Is this what Chick believes? Does he think it's only Christian faith that is stopping the slaughter of all non-whites? I think he does. I think he's saying that without Jesus all those inferior people would be well screwed. The man is scum for far more than his religious beliefs.
Posted by: Rick | May 2, 2008 4:51 PM
Quick digression...has anyone read Rob Schrab's Scud: The Disposable Assassin comics? The Christ figure looks like the angels from his books.
Posted by: J | May 2, 2008 4:51 PM
Ladies and gentleman, here are Tylers scores for his dive after being cast out by Jesus
USA 8.9
England 8.8
France 8.9
Gernmany 9.0
Russia 1.5
Posted by: firemancarl | May 2, 2008 4:53 PM
"Here's an absolute: the words of God (KJV)!"
...which I guess means that before the committee started meeting in 1604, God's words were relative?
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | May 2, 2008 4:53 PM
Whats with the gleeful sperms in panel 6?
Posted by: Dennis N | May 2, 2008 4:54 PM
I really dislike how the whole Darwin = National Socialism idea is picking up steam with these nutbags.
Although it says something on the implied racism of Jack Chick that he equates being of a dark skin color with being "inferior".
Sometimes I think I should just ignore the fundies (them having a hard time and all with reason) and then something disgusting like this comes along...
Posted by: Sean | May 2, 2008 4:56 PM
Do you think someone should tell him that Spore isn't actually how evolution works?
Posted by: Owen | May 2, 2008 4:57 PM
How sad is it that the boy's crime isn't the bad things he did refusing to live a moral life, but that he didn't believe in something?
As an aside, while growing up I always found it was the christians who needed morality to be defined and explained for them, not the skeptics. When you are responsible for your actions and not in possession of a get-out-of-jail-free dunking, the rightness and wrongness of your actions take on a wee bit greater importance.
Posted by: Julian | May 2, 2008 4:57 PM
I can kinda relate to the kid. When evangelicals come up to me like Cathy did in the comic and tell me I'm a dirty sinner who is going to hell, I get a little pissed. I don't think I'm a god, but I do think I'm not worthless, sinful trash. I don't know why that upsets them so much.
Posted by: Dennis N | May 2, 2008 4:59 PM
Oops - bad link. Try Spore
Posted by: Owen | May 2, 2008 4:59 PM
Here I'm a bit of a fantasy writer and I couldn't come up with something so outrageously and inconceivably stupid. and I wrote about a dragon eating a burrito once! I'm so Jealous.
Posted by: DB | May 2, 2008 5:01 PM
My personal favorite part is the "It's in all our school books so it must be true" line. I'd ask if they really don't get that the line can be more effectively attached to them for believing that it's in a single book (okay, a collection of books handily bound and near exclusively distributed as one) with no corroborating evidence and much counter-evidence, but obviously they don't. Anyway, it's all okay because they feel it in their hearts that their sacred book is true.
Posted by: Moonsail (the apostate) | May 2, 2008 5:02 PM
#27 Dennis N wrote:
J, Hitler was not a TRUE Scotsman, I mean, Christian. Oops.
Landlady: Telephone, Mr Hilter! It's that nice Mr. McGöring from the Bell and Compasses. He says he's found a place where you can hire bombers by the hour.
Hitler: If he opens his big mouth again it's lampshade time!
Von Ribbentrop: Shut up! Hire bombers by the hour, ha ha, what a laugh he is, that Scottish person. Good old Norman.
Posted by: J | May 2, 2008 5:03 PM
Well, of course he's doomed when he's named "Tyler". What is that really? A surname?
</Old European mode>
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | May 2, 2008 5:03 PM
Seven panels down, box on the right side, where the mom says "Our religion is called evolution":
Is it me or does it look like the little guy with the spear is labeled Darwin? Ah yes, evolution. The theory that says millions of years ago a caveman named Darwin killed hundreds of palm tree loving dinosaurs with his legendary spear throwing abilities. Who are the ones who claim people and dinosaurs lived at the same time anyway?
Posted by: Jon | May 2, 2008 5:04 PM
J, if I remember correctly, you're actually quoting people named "Ron Vibbentrop" and Mr. "Hilter."
(but I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | May 2, 2008 5:05 PM
Completely inaccurate. Nowhere did I see atheists eating babies. I mean come on. That's one of our main goals.
Posted by: Alex | May 2, 2008 5:07 PM
This is still the best:
http://religiousfreaks.com/2006/11/03/evolution-south-park-style/
Posted by: Quiet Desperation | May 2, 2008 5:07 PM
When I was 8 years old, my Dad's barber placed a whole rack of these in his shop. I was encouraged to read them and ended up believing them. I at first believed them, then they scared me so much I couldn't sleep for nights. I finally grew out of them, but I can still recall the utter terror of the lake of fire in those tracts.
These tracts are dangerous to the minds of kids
Posted by: OrbitalMike | May 2, 2008 5:07 PM
I find it quite encouraging, actually, where the narrator says "the land began to call us . . . and we grew legs." For me, it's the stars that call. Now I can look forward to acquiring the abilities to fly at near-lightspeed and to survive hard vacuum and extremes of temperature and radiation for decades at a time. (That is the way evolution works, isn't it? Anyone? Anyone?)
Posted by: beagledad | May 2, 2008 5:08 PM
I'm never sure whether he is being facetious, or really believes what he writes...
Posted by: Pwnagepanda | May 2, 2008 5:08 PM
My eight year old thought this was pretty funny. He liked the evil dog and monkey the most. And the idea that someone who doesn't believe in gods would try to become one was pretty entertaining for us both.
Posted by: suzette | May 2, 2008 5:09 PM
I have always gotten a good laugh from Chick Tracts since I discovered my first one(s) sprinkled around San Francisco on newspaper boxes, fire hydrants & lamp-posts.
There is a wonderful gallery of Chick Tracts archived at their site:
http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractlist.asp
They probably sell most of their tracts as bundles of multiple copies of the same comic so "Christians can Witness" by sticking them in public places and running away. An odd form of "witnessing", but I have never come across an active proselytizer passing out Chick Tracts.
If you are a comic collector and don't want to hunt for Chick Tracts scattered around in public (best hunting is after an event holy-rollers would find distasteful such as a gay pride parade or pro-choice march), they say they sell individual copies for 15¢ each.
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Posted by: Jaycubed | May 2, 2008 5:13 PM
Wow. I was not familiar with Jack Chick, and when looking at the panels in this blog, thought, "Well, this is a kind of funny little satire of IDiocy."
Then I clicked through to the full comic/tract (and boy, is it long) and saw their site, and realized that they aren't being sarcastic.
Poe's Law strikes again....
I also love the "progression" from "tiny dots in goo" to "polywogs in water". WTF? Where do they even get this from? Though their teleological view of evolution as leading towards man (no doubt derived from the anthropocentric theology of their own religion) does begin to explain why IDiots often ask "why do we still have monkeys" and the like.
Posted by: Etha Williams | May 2, 2008 5:14 PM
Evil monkeys for EVERYONE'S closet!!
Posted by: donna | May 2, 2008 5:14 PM
What I find most unbelievable about Chick tracts is that the main characters seem never to have heard of the possibility they might go to hell or that Jesus could save them. The tracts present the idea that everyone lost in sin is lost because they never even once heard the message of the gospel.
Get real! How could you live in contemporary America without having heard the message you'll go to hell if you don't accept the redeeming power of Jesus at least hundreds of times?
Of course, in some of the tracts, such as this one, the sinner hears the message only once, rejects it, and then we get to see him cast into the lake of fire.
The main problem with Christanity is the central doctrine of sin and redemption. The common analogy is debt. Suppose someone owes me money, but cannot repay me. If someone else comes along and pays me the amount owed and asks me to firgive the debt, I'm cool; I got my money back. But offense is not like debt. If someone has wronged me, there is no other person who can offer apology and restituition. I can get what I desire only from the person who wronged me.
So if sin is an offense against God, it is impossible that some third party could ever fix things. Sure, a third party may act as a negotiator, but that third party could never really "pay the price" for another's wrongdoing
Posted by: Bacopa | May 2, 2008 5:19 PM
#45 Sven,
Oh ja, mein Dickie old chum, they are wunderbar! ...ful!
Posted by: J | May 2, 2008 5:24 PM
That's just how religious people think. They think the reason you aren't a Christian is because you've never heard of it, or haven't really heard of it. It just makes so much sense to them, there is no other way for them.
Posted by: Dennis N | May 2, 2008 5:24 PM
This brings back memories. I remember deciding at thirteen that there were no gods, or at least none like my fundamentalist church imagined. I did give some consideration to moral behavior - why *would we act morally if we weren't terrified of eternal torture? Obviously we *were a moral species; I decided that as a social animal, moral behavior must have some reproductive benefits. Therefore, to show to myself (if not others) that I was better than those loons in church, (by being fitter by the standards of our species) I was determined to be more moral than they. So, atheist pride + simple evolutionary science = morality. At least in my case. Of course, these folks wouldn't have considered anyone comfortable with miscegnation, polymorphous sexuality, strong women, or boogie woogie, to be moral. Thinking about it, I only ended up having two kids, while many of those goofballs had a half dozen or more, so I guess the joke's on me!
I assure any doubters that there indeed are tens of millions of people who think very much like these cartoon archetypes in Jack Chick comics.
Posted by: Kermit | May 2, 2008 5:24 PM
People who believe we "evolved from monkeys" probably shouldn't get a good grade in biology class, but a lake of fire seems a little harsh. I think PZ only throws his failing students in a tank with flesh-eating cephalopods; it's over quickly and mercifully.
Posted by: Screechy Monkey | May 2, 2008 5:26 PM
I do have to give credit where credit's due...I don't think I've ever seen such a clear demonstration of how absurd the God-saves-by-torturing-his-son belief is than while when arrogant-Xian-girl is explaining Xianity to the arrogant-autotheist-boy (panels 13-17). They may make a straw man of evolutionary theory by distorting the facts and their scientific interpretation, but they also make a straw man of their own religious belief by honestly representing their interpretation of the bible.
Posted by: Etha Williams | May 2, 2008 5:27 PM
I ** AM ** A ** GOD!!!!
Bow down before me, y'all.
Its good to be GOD!
Posted by: Your GOD! | May 2, 2008 5:28 PM
The stupid! The stupid! It hurts!
Posted by: Joe | May 2, 2008 5:28 PM
Bacopa, it's even more convoluted than that. Jesus is part of God, but also separate, so God is sort of... repaying himself? But he's not really repayed unless each person says that he is?
It gets even more confusing when you consider that God sent his son, or himself, to repay the sin, specifically because he was upset that he was sending people to hell. Or something.
Posted by: kmarissa | May 2, 2008 5:29 PM
Lying and cheating is better than murdering billions of people, which is what God's been busy doing.
Posted by: M07 | May 2, 2008 5:30 PM
Thanks for Friday afternoon entertainment, PZ!
Was that 'toon (the drawings, not Jack) supposed to speak to anyone more than 2 years old (physically and/or mentally)?
"But the land began to call us..."
Ummm, so what you're saying is that the LAND spoke to the FISH? In what language? Aramaic? Really, really, ancient Aramaic?
The tiny print at the end "WHAT TO PRAY" is priceless.
"No, no, no, you're doing it wrong!"
Posted by: WRMartin | May 2, 2008 5:30 PM
We've heard these strawman versions of evolution a million times before, of course, but I can never figure out if they're being intentionally deceptive or if they actually think that's what biologists believe.
Also, is it just me, or is Chick's artwork getting worse? Not that it was ever very good in the first place.
Posted by: BoxerShorts | May 2, 2008 5:30 PM
Wasn't there some pathetic creo you tube movie where a guy dies and then, when faced with hell, cries out as to why his friends never told him about Jesus...it was really ridiculous. Anybody know what video I'm talking about?
CL
http://www.coulterlewkowitz.com/
Posted by: CL | May 2, 2008 5:33 PM
If the word "monkeys" has any meaning at all, then we did evolve from monkeys.
(say, does this lake seem a little...warm to you?)
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | May 2, 2008 5:33 PM
@52:
That's a damn good point. There does seem to be an element of cowardice to the "witnessing" Chick fans do. I've never met a Chickian either, not live and in person -- just dealt with their odious scat.
Perhaps they're all really Chick-ens.
Posted by: Warren | May 2, 2008 5:38 PM
How many dead people are there anyways? Not billions. I've heard before that "there are more people alive than have ever died". Anyone know if that's still true? Of course a well placed comet would end all that.
Posted by: SplendidMonkey | May 2, 2008 5:39 PM
I think the ethical slide is much slipperier when you posit a final judgement that is so easy to pass (accept Jesus!), regardless of your behaviour (everything can be forgiven!) than when you are expected to judge yourself. Consequently, the kid's sudden mercenary ethics strike me as more plausibly a result of Christianity than atheism.
Posted by: BMurray | May 2, 2008 5:39 PM
@67:
Yep, Kevin Beck com mented on it yesterday at Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge, another ScienceBlog. Go and check it out.
Posted by: Warren | May 2, 2008 5:40 PM
My reaction to Chick's tracts hasn't ever really been humor... I had the misfortune to be handed one, in all seriousness, by a Catholic school teacher.
Dawkins et al. are right to call it child abuse.
Posted by: B.Dewhirst | May 2, 2008 5:41 PM
That new tract is much worse than Chick's work when he was in his prime. Nothing beats Big Daddy.
Posted by: PatrickHenry | May 2, 2008 5:41 PM
I guess these abominable leaflets work like spam does: If you keep the costs low enough, it's enough to fish in just one reader out of a thousand.
Then the poor caught drones buy packs of these, do the same ineffective dance, and the contagion spreads.
Posted by: Masks of Eris | May 2, 2008 5:42 PM
"You'll be in the lake of fire with billions of others who believe we evolved from monkeys."
Oh. My. Flying Spaghetti Monster. That sounds SO cool! Is there really a place where there are no IDiotic creationists and all us evolutionists can hang out together?
OMFSM! That is SO cool! I'm totally going there!
Posted by: Elles | May 2, 2008 5:42 PM
I thought Chick hated Catholics?
Posted by: Dennis N | May 2, 2008 5:42 PM
I love how the mom tells the kid that "evolution is our religion". And I didn't know that Jesus gave Moses the ten commandments, either. The things you learn from Mr. Chick.
Posted by: Adrienne | May 2, 2008 5:42 PM
A Baptist church had a stand at our local fair last year and put out a bunch of Chick tracts. I knew about their existence from a friend, who sent me the online link, but my brother and I still harvested dozens of the best ones every time there wasn't anyone looking. Then we laughed at them and made fun of them every way we could. They didn't have any good evolution ones then, though...I must have this.
Posted by: Dark Matter | May 2, 2008 5:44 PM
Yes, Chick hates Catholics. He's written at least three anti-Cath tracts, with one claiming that all American Catholics are citizens of both Vatican City and the US. I was baptized, communicated, and confirmed Catholic. I want my right of return to Vatican City, dammit!
Posted by: Adrienne | May 2, 2008 5:44 PM
The only thing more pathetic than the fact that they're throwing people into a "lake of fire" for what they believe, while claiming to be moral, is the evolution straw man they make. Seriously, how ignorant and stupid can a person get?
Posted by: Alex | May 2, 2008 5:47 PM
71 comments and not a single reference to Death Note. I really must be out of my element here ...
Careful what you wish for PZed - you'll end up getting sent a tonnes of these now. I first heard of Chick back when I discovered Websnark. Wednesday White is oddly fond of his work.
Posted by: Sili | May 2, 2008 5:47 PM
I really can't tell: Is this comic a commentary on the evils of evolution, or the evils of "The Jeffersons?" I mean, the second panel even paraphrases the theme song. The child = George. The child aspires to be God = George buys his fifth dry cleaning store. The child rejects all morals and ends up thrown into a fiery Hell = George tosses Tom and Helen Willis out of his apartment and ends up getting trapped in an elevator with Mr. Bentley and Florence.
I assume the other two fish in the first panel are Archie and Edith bunker.
Posted by: UprightAlice | May 2, 2008 5:48 PM
If you look at some of the older tracts concerning evolution, the evil evolution scientists look disturbingly like stereotypical caricatures of Jews.
Posted by: khan | May 2, 2008 5:48 PM
continuing the current trend for PZ unwittingly turning up in comic strips - look! there at the end of the Ascent-of-Man frame: it's PZ with a golf club!
Posted by: alex | May 2, 2008 5:49 PM
The famous anti-evolution Chick tract is called "Big Daddy", and has the usual Madlibs Jack Chick recipe:
First, start with one arrogant, Jewish-looking, atheist college professor. Add in one tall, blond, Aryan fundy Student to stand up and argue with him about evolution, and stir. Brown shirt on student is optional. Sprinkle liberally with Bible verses and bake for half the time.
Posted by: Kingasaurus | May 2, 2008 5:49 PM
>Although it says something on the implied racism of Jack
>Chick that he equates being of a dark skin color with
>being "inferior".
I wish this was a real PHP forum so I could post a picture of what my face looks like right now.
I really hope you don't seriously believe that.
This has nothing to do with race or being inferior.
Posted by: Kenny | May 2, 2008 5:50 PM
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | May 2, 2008 5:51 PM
Can we give a name to the ridiculous argument that atheists necessarily will believe they are gods? Maybe "Argument from Autotheism"?
Posted by: Etha Williams | May 2, 2008 5:51 PM
Posted by: Alex | May 2, 2008 5:54 PM
Anyone else notice how Jack's own predjudices seep out from the part about the "Master Race".
"Evolution's final solution is the elimination of the weaker!"
Where did the value judgement come from that says that brown eyes or skin pigment is 'weaker'. i think it's revealing that he chooses this wording.
Blog post on the subject
http://jenshegg.blogspot.com/2008/05/revealing-true-motivation.html
Posted by: Jens | May 2, 2008 5:54 PM
Hi, Kenny! Please, share: what do you think about Chick Tracts?
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | May 2, 2008 5:55 PM
"If the word "monkeys" has any meaning at all, then we did evolve from monkeys."
Oops -- I was under the impression that the common ancestor of humans and monkeys wouldn't be categorized as a monkey. Good thing I'm not taking any biology exams in the near future.
(I, of course, am descended from slightly less-screechy monkeys. The screechiness is a beneficial adaptation to life on the internet.)
Posted by: Screechy Monkey | May 2, 2008 5:55 PM
That was awful, in more ways than one. I have half a mind to edit the dialogue and make the conversation ring true, in more ways than one.
Posted by: Steve Sutton | May 2, 2008 5:57 PM
Get your projection, racism and hypocrisy in one neat little package. Don't be fooled by imitations. This is the original.
Act now and you will receive all the hate you can convey, too!
Get a passive aggressive gift basket for the death cult holidays and save. Supplies aren't limited but hurry anyway.
Posted by: eewolf | May 2, 2008 5:57 PM
#32 firemancarl -
Darn it! I'm at work. I darn near busted out laughing. You're going to get me into trouble.
Ah... Good ole Chick. Being an avid gamer for the better part of the last 25 years I'm familiar with the Chick tracks because of this one: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp
It's the "D&D leads to witchcraft" track. Very funny.
Posted by: ThirdMonkey | May 2, 2008 5:58 PM
I have never come across an active proselytizer passing out Chick Tracts.
I should be so lucky; they used to sing Xian rock outside the Uncle Albert's on Whyte Avenue on Friday nights in the early 90s. My friend and I, being mild-mannered rabble rousers, would talk with them for a bit before hitting the coffee shop and caffinating ourselves into tachycardia. Every one of them admitted to being junkies prior to their conversion, and their assumption was that everybody not saved was one too.
I do remember learning a lot of heroin-user lingo from one of their tracts though. Odd to think that I learned what 'freebasing', 'skin-popping', and 'main-lining' were from fundies. (Also odd that such an education didn't immediately impell me find a syringe--unlike sex ed in school, after which I immediately went out and had sex with 230,402,457−1 girls and contracted 232,582,657−1 STIs since we're only animals.)
Posted by: Brownian, OM | May 2, 2008 5:58 PM
@#83 khan --