Chick Tracts

[Circus Ascendant]

Hey guys.

People talk about these all the time, but in the UK (where I am) you don't see them in real life. I was curious if someone could link me to a real one?

Sure that might sound stupid but no matter how many times I've searched for them online, I just get the ludicrous (and admittedly very funny) parodies like the DnD girl who kills herself and they burn all the rulebooks for teaching "real power", but I'd quite like to find a serious one and compare it with the "Word of the Lord" stuff that people hand out in our beautiful British streets.

That is, of course, if they're even online...

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

A what?

 

[Jazzboy]

http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractlist.asp

Dont say I never do anything for ya

 

[Circus Ascendant]

http://www.chick.com/catalog/tractlist.asp

Dont say I never do anything for ya

Hang on... I thought that was the page with all the parodies on...

Are you telling me that that's *serious*?

In the States do these get handed out in print form? Do people take it seriously?

I mean it, I really wanna know.

 

[RetiarySword]

Is it like a Christian advertisement comic strip?

 

[Circus Ascendant]

Is it like a Christian advertisement comic strip?

Yeah, and I now have reason to believe that a site I thought was a pisstake is the ACTUAL site with the real ones on...

 

[Jazzboy]

its a sad world

of course it could be worse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTpLaw1C364

 

[Ossum]

Yes, they're real, they show up in grocery store aisles and other sneaky places all the time. However they suffer from the zealot's confusion in that other people tend to think they're parodies, while the zealot is totally serious. They're... very off-the-wall.

 

[Graustein]

Sure that might sound stupid but no matter how many times I've searched for them online, I just get the ludicrous (and admittedly very funny) parodies like the DnD girl who kills herself and they burn all the rulebooks for teaching "real power"

That's no parody. It's a bona fide Chick Tract. The rest are on a similar level of absurdity and ignorance, but all evidence suggests that he's completely serious about what he's saying.

That particular one is so well-known because... well, probably because of the absurd misrepresentation of D&D in it, combined with the fact that D&D players are more likely to propogate it online in a "haha look at the moron" kind of way than his other targets, while his other tracts have less geeky subject matter (evolution, Islam, Catholicism, rock & roll and much more).

 

[Horizontalvertigo]

I'm reading through these things.
They're making me very sad.
Pseudo-Science and hair brained religion is a bad combination.

 

[Circus Ascendant]

Sure that might sound stupid but no matter how many times I've searched for them online, I just get the ludicrous (and admittedly very funny) parodies like the DnD girl who kills herself and they burn all the rulebooks for teaching "real power"

That's no parody. It's a bona fide Chick Tract. The rest are on a similar level of absurdity and ignorance, but all evidence suggests that he's completely serious about what he's saying.

That particular one is so well-known because... well, probably because of the absurd misrepresentation of D&D in it, combined with the fact that D&D players are more likely to propogate it online in a "haha look at the moron" kind of way than his other targets, while his other tracts have less geeky subject matter (evolution, Islam, Catholicism, rock & roll and much more).

But the others, especially the rock & roll one, are just as funny!

I'm not trying to bash America, but really - what percentage of people do you reckon takes these things seriously???

Hold on, I just remembered something my mum said (she's a churchgoer) about one time she went to a different church and got a lecture about how roleplaying games are EVIL. Thankfully she didn't tell these people I do live action World of Darkness, so I avoided being lynched... So I bet it's a higher percentage than one would think.

 

[Jazzboy]

I so want him to turn out to be a stealth-satire writer...

...Its just to depressing to think that he actually means it

 

[Graustein]

Hang on... I thought that was the page with all the parodies on...

Are you telling me that that's *serious*?

I laughed aloud at that. Yes, it's serious. Of course, your reaction is exactly why he fails. Along with, y'know, the laughable ignorance and blind misguided zeal.

 

[Circus Ascendant]

I so want him to turn out to be a stealth-satire writer...

...Its just to depressing to think that he actually means it

Yeah, I find it hard to believe...

 

[Circus Ascendant]

Hang on... I thought that was the page with all the parodies on...

Are you telling me that that's *serious*?

I laughed aloud at that. Yes, it's serious. Of course, your reaction is exactly why he fails. Along with, y'know, the laughable ignorance and blind misguided zeal.

I guess... well, I'd like to think that if I'd seen them in a real situation (i.e. in a grocery store) rather than on the web I'd have realised that he means them rather than mistaking them as a pisstake, but...

Normally I'm a pretty articulate bloke, but here? Words fail me...

 

[eatenbyagrue]

This is some seriously messed up shiz. I'd honestly hate to see what would happen if the writers were ever stranded with a crate of these in a predominantly Catholic or Islam country. I really would.