http://www.fmh-child.org/Lisa.html
I originally posted this elsewhere, but only one person dared address it.
The above tract was first published in 1984 by Chick Publications, a company that has spent the last 40+ decades publishing material aimed at converting people towards a form of Evangelical Protestantism; most of the material is produced, in whole or in part, by Jack Chick, the founder of the organization.
In the tract, a doctor discovers that the titular character, a young girl, is somehow suffering from a persistent STD and shows other signs of having been sexually assaulted. When the doctor confronts the girl's father about this, the father confesses. In response to this discovery, the doctor informs...
...the dad that he needs to get right with God.
Legal obligations to report abuse? What legal obligations to report abuse? No, once the dad says some choice words in front of the doctor, the doctor lets the dad go home to his family. The dad confesses all, and then says that he's already asked God for forgiveness. In response, the wife and child pray to God for forgiveness for ever being angry with him.
The end.
The company was ultimately forced to chuck things down the hole 1984-style... because the tract was a liability. Neither Chick himself nor the company have, to my knowledge, ever backed down from the message presented in it. Instead, they have simply chosen to deny that it ever existed. Problem is, they published so many copies of this before yanking it that enough copies survived to the dawn of the internet age, at which point they were promptly digitized at web sites like the one above.
So...
As someone who belongs to a mainline Christian denomination, how does it feel knowing that a tract like this was published in God's name?
I originally posted this elsewhere, but only one person dared address it.
The above tract was first published in 1984 by Chick Publications, a company that has spent the last 40+ decades publishing material aimed at converting people towards a form of Evangelical Protestantism; most of the material is produced, in whole or in part, by Jack Chick, the founder of the organization.
In the tract, a doctor discovers that the titular character, a young girl, is somehow suffering from a persistent STD and shows other signs of having been sexually assaulted. When the doctor confronts the girl's father about this, the father confesses. In response to this discovery, the doctor informs...
...the dad that he needs to get right with God.
Legal obligations to report abuse? What legal obligations to report abuse? No, once the dad says some choice words in front of the doctor, the doctor lets the dad go home to his family. The dad confesses all, and then says that he's already asked God for forgiveness. In response, the wife and child pray to God for forgiveness for ever being angry with him.
The end.
The company was ultimately forced to chuck things down the hole 1984-style... because the tract was a liability. Neither Chick himself nor the company have, to my knowledge, ever backed down from the message presented in it. Instead, they have simply chosen to deny that it ever existed. Problem is, they published so many copies of this before yanking it that enough copies survived to the dawn of the internet age, at which point they were promptly digitized at web sites like the one above.
So...
As someone who belongs to a mainline Christian denomination, how does it feel knowing that a tract like this was published in God's name?
