I've never heard of this before. Do people hand this stuff out?
This kind of thing is really what made me start questioning Christianity several years ago. The attacks on Catholicism are nauseatingly evil.
I've never heard of this before. Do people hand this stuff out?
You've never heard of tracts? Usually, tracts are small 3 X 5 inch papers that have a message to consider. Often the information is about religion or politics and why you should believe A, B, or C. People hand them out, put them on a table to pick up, or leave the paper where someone might find it. Chick tracts are the same thing but use comics to present their religious ideas. The idea is pretty much the same as when people hand out fliers for their grocery store or a local concert.
All churches have done questionable things, and worse than questionable, and continue to do questionable things. I'm not commenting on that. I'm commenting on the actual "tract" shown on the link, which is, imo, evil in its depiction of Catholic priests. The Chick tracts point hatred unreservedly at the Catholic church, while failing to note that many Protestant leaders/churches/movements have their own evil within. It's unreasonable and hateful.Well, from purely historical point of view, Catholic Church has done more crimes against humanity and humans than all of the present day rapper thugs, serial killers and drug cartels put together have. So, it's in a way not a bad target to attack. It's either accurate, or very close to say that CC has been the most powerabusing non-state organization in the entire human history.
All churches have done questionable things, and worse than questionable, and continue to do questionable things.
Chick Tracts read like parodies, pretty much demonstrating Poe's Law.
What they say about the mentality of those who take them seriously and use them as a witnessing tool is quite disconcerting. Their Biblical exegesis paints the picture of a monstrous, faceless celestial dictator whose only concern is attracting as many lickspittles as possible, while simultaneously obsessing about cruel torture as punishment for the most innocuous things (rock music, role-playing games). And their portrayal of non-Christians betrays the worst about the mentality of those who produce, disseminate or consume them.
I don't have a dog in this fight, and never said you couldn't say the CC is evil. That's entirely up to you. But the CC is hardly the only organization or ... power structure (lost for words ??) guilty of genocides. I didn't know about the Albigensian Crusade. That's something new to me. And I didn't say that YOU were hateful, but that the tracts (in general) are hateful.CC has committed at least one full scale genocide, Albigensian Crusade. It was a medieval version of the Holocaust. How many genocides I'm supposed to ignore before I can declare an organization to be evil without it being hateful thing to say?
I'd say Chick going after CC is a "Right guy, wrong crime" - type of situation.
I've never heard of anyone converting because of a religious pamphlet that was carelessly and impersonally handed out. My childhood church didn't do anything like that.1. What do you think about people handing out religious literature and tracts? Why?
I don't have a dog in this fight, and never said you couldn't say the CC is evil. That's entirely up to you. But the CC is hardly the only organization or ... power structure (lost for words ??) guilty of genocides. I didn't know about the Albigensian Crusade. That's something new to me. And I didn't say that YOU were hateful, but that the tracts (in general) are hateful.
The Cathars were annihilated and the religion never recovered. It was getting popular at the time, but is practically uknown today, "thanks" to the epic genocide which destroyed it
I believe that was where the term 'kill 'em all and let God sort them out' came from. Although i think it was originally 'kill them all. God will know his own'.
This statement is apocryphal, but it reflects the spirit of the Albigensian crusade very well.Yup, that's where it originates.
The Papal legate giving the order was actually partly quoting the Bible, 2. Tim 2:19: "The Lord knoweth them that are His"
It's not as if the rest of Christendom performed any better than that, though.
Martin Luther wrote lengthy tracts on how the Jews were to be expelled from their homes and put to forced labor, their synagogues destroyed - basically creating a roadmap for the holocaust. (Nor was it an accident that the so-called "Reichspogromnacht" took place on the night of his birthday.)
Johannes Calvin had the Unitarian Michael Servetus burned at the stake, arguing that it would be immoral to allow his "poison", i.e. non-trinitarian Christianity, to spread.
Oh, I definitely share that stance. Especially in light of the fact that the morality they preach is pretty abominable in many instances, if you ask me.My motive for bashing CC is not theological, I don't mind many elements in Catholic faith that make standard protestants puke. What makes me angry is their self-proclaimed role as a superior moral authority and the long list of crimes that say the church should be anything but.
1. Handing our religious literature and tracts that promote faith and share your true goodness with the world is a great thing.1. What do you think about people handing out religious literature and tracts? Why?
2. What do you think of chick tracts in particular? Why? www.chick.com
1. Handing our religious literature and tracts that promote faith and share your true goodness with the world is a great thing.
2. Chick Tracts only sow falsehoods about other faiths, trying to tear them down with lies. They are horrible.