With so many much more substantial religious right organizations and leaders to focus on, some may wonder why I am devoting a morning post to craziness of Chick Publications.
Chick Publications is a site pushing comic book stories detailing what happens if you accept God in your life or worse yet, what happens if you don't.
No doubt you have seen these tracts at bus stations or phone booths or were handed to them by some well-meaning individual who are out to "save your soul."
Chick Publications doesn't play favorites. They don't like Catholics, Muslims, evolution, or anything else which does not prescribe to its belief in Christianity.
But it is the subject of lgbts which Chick Publications excel in batshit nonsense. Fred Phelps has nothing on this site when it comes to wild homophobia, such as the latest tract called Uninvited.
Uninvited is about a Christian who administers to AIDS patients. The irony is that while bad information is pushed heavily about AIDS and lgbts are brutally made the scapegoat, the tract didn't have the courage to even mention the word "gay."
A sample is the following:
Trust me when I say you don't want to read any further. Apparently according to Chick, lgbts were the reason why God destroyed the world by flood during Noah's time.
This of course isn't in the Bible, but Chick publications do have a habit of taking dramatic license with the Bible, such as the following scenes which was not present in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah:
I certainly don't mean to drive anyone bonkers with this. I just want to remind people of a few things. The lgbt community has come a long way, haven't we?
A while back, these graphics would be playing to wider and more accepting audiences rather than seen as either campy or sad fodder detailing the ignorance of some folks.
As a matter of fact in the 1980s, a certain wildly known religious right group (Concerned Women for America) actually endorsed some mess like this.
But it is important to remember that while many on the right shy away from the visual excesses of homophobia, they still push the inaccurate ideas behind them, i.e. the belief that homosexuality and pedophilia are linked.
So while the site may not mean to, it provides an excellent view to what some on the right really do think about the lgbt community - even those who lead "proper Christian organizations."
Related post:
Never fear, Chick Publications is here! or What some people really think of gay marriage
Chick Publications is a site pushing comic book stories detailing what happens if you accept God in your life or worse yet, what happens if you don't.
No doubt you have seen these tracts at bus stations or phone booths or were handed to them by some well-meaning individual who are out to "save your soul."
Chick Publications doesn't play favorites. They don't like Catholics, Muslims, evolution, or anything else which does not prescribe to its belief in Christianity.
But it is the subject of lgbts which Chick Publications excel in batshit nonsense. Fred Phelps has nothing on this site when it comes to wild homophobia, such as the latest tract called Uninvited.
Uninvited is about a Christian who administers to AIDS patients. The irony is that while bad information is pushed heavily about AIDS and lgbts are brutally made the scapegoat, the tract didn't have the courage to even mention the word "gay."
A sample is the following:
Trust me when I say you don't want to read any further. Apparently according to Chick, lgbts were the reason why God destroyed the world by flood during Noah's time.
This of course isn't in the Bible, but Chick publications do have a habit of taking dramatic license with the Bible, such as the following scenes which was not present in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah:
I certainly don't mean to drive anyone bonkers with this. I just want to remind people of a few things. The lgbt community has come a long way, haven't we?
A while back, these graphics would be playing to wider and more accepting audiences rather than seen as either campy or sad fodder detailing the ignorance of some folks.
As a matter of fact in the 1980s, a certain wildly known religious right group (Concerned Women for America) actually endorsed some mess like this.
But it is important to remember that while many on the right shy away from the visual excesses of homophobia, they still push the inaccurate ideas behind them, i.e. the belief that homosexuality and pedophilia are linked.
So while the site may not mean to, it provides an excellent view to what some on the right really do think about the lgbt community - even those who lead "proper Christian organizations."
Related post:
Never fear, Chick Publications is here! or What some people really think of gay marriage
2 comments:
Much of the content of Chick tracks is so absurd that I can't help but wonder if they're Poes. It amazes me that fundamentalists still share Chick tracks in this day and age.
I understand, you, the blog writer, are a Christian.
I'm afraid it's at least in part because of the whole "God's gonna getcha!" crowd that I really dislike Christianity...they really look forward to having people go to hell, don't they?
The idea of condemning anyone to torture that never ends...*shudder*...There's just something wrong with that! And worse, enjoying the idea...sick.
Hardly Christlike of them. At least the Catholics dreamt up purgatory.
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