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In a day when many Christians are producing watered-down, politically-correct films, The Light of the World provides exactly what you would expect from Jack Chick

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[ October 05, 2004, 06:16 PM: Message edited by: Taalcon ]
 

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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
A heaping pile of manure?

Cause that is what I tend to expect from him...

Kwea
 

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
 
This took years to produce? I hope someone at least went out for Chinese or something, I mean it would be a shame to see so much time wasted.

Hobbes
 

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Posted by Pepek (Member # 3773) on :
 
See.. I'm Jack Dude.

Someone give me money to make a /good/ movie.

-Jack Montague
 

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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 

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You can almost feel the crackling flames of hell as you watch!

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[ October 05, 2004, 07:06 PM: Message edited by: Eaquae Legit ]
 

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Posted by Steev (Member # 6805) on :
 
Wow! I don't know about anyone else but I was a bit creeped out by those video clips. Very creepy! If I were looking for a religion to live by that would completely turn me off of the idea completely.
 

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Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
 

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Many who have seen advanced screenings of this film have been moved to tears.

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Buddha is dead.

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Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
 
Garrison Keillor(paraphrased):

"When I was a child at the state fair, I would lie under a tree and look up through the leaves at the clouds and imagine I was in Heaven. I heard the screams of the people on the rides, and I imagined they were in Hell.

That was the life of a Fundamentalist Christian child in Minnesota."

(sorry, that is what I remember from the show)
 

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Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
 
I had no idea sumo wrestlers were going to hell. Good to know.
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Well, duh. I mean, they're Asian.



-o-

Tell you what, this is going to be a LOT harder to parody . . .
 

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Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
 
I was getting some really mixed messages. I mean, in one frame, we see Jesus under a rainbow with his arms outstretched. Next we see a chinese dragon in rainbow colors in the very bowels of hell.

Oh, and Satan holding a miniature Washington Monument disturbed me greatly.

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Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
 

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Millions are addicted to television, which makes this a great way to reach them. Invite unsaved family, friends, neighbors, etc. to watch the film in your home. Or loan it to them to watch at their convenience. Either way, they will receive the gospel in a way they will never forget. You may also want to show it when you have lost people in a Sunday School class, youth group, adult group, home Bible study or cell group.

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Tell you what, this is going to be a LOT harder to parody . . .

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I mean, he's the lord of all evil-- and he's not bald!

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For a moment I thought I was in the VP Debate thread.
 

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Posted by dabbler (Member # 6443) on :
 
The pictures are pretty . Though it's a shame much of it's panning across larger drawings.
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
Alas, he's not THAT evil.
 

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Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
 
Dear Manwe...
lol!

This is the dumbest thing I've seen in a while.

I like how it bashes the Catholic church, the parent religion to whatever these people believe. I thought the Protestant misunderstanding of the veneration of the Saints and Mother Mary was long over? Ah well..
 

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Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
 
My next-door-neighbor Baptists took Mark out to eat and to church with them last Sunday, as a thank you for helping them move back in. Mark was all, "I think I want to be a Buddhist. Well, at least I know I don't want to be a Baptist."

But anyway, Taler gave me a tract to give to Mister Ron to read, but since it WASN'T a Chick Tract, I thought it was very sweet. I mean, it would have been sweet that she cares, even if she'd given us a Chick Tract, but it would have been creepier than it was sweet.

Seriously, if I found out they did have Chick Tracts lying around their house, I probably wouldn't let the boys go play there. Maybe that would be overreacting.

Though they did tell Taler she couldn't watch videos at our house without them being cleared through the parents first. I'm okay with that, but I thought it was funny that they made that rule in response to finding out that we had rented a PeeWee's Playhouse video. I mean, Paul Reubens' life and the show don't seem all that connected, to me. But whatever. I never tried to show her kids The Simpsons, or Pokemon, or Harry Potter, because I knew better, and I respect their right to shelter their kids however they want to. I guess my line of 'sheltering my kids' is a fairly loose one, since it allows Futurama and MST3K. But anything Jack Chick is over that line for me.
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 

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I thought the Protestant misunderstanding of the veneration of the Saints and Mother Mary was long over?

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Alas, no. What's even sadder is when it's used simply as an off-hand way to attack Catholics as "Mary worshippers" with no understanding of the reasons many Protestants dislike it.

It's like being dumb twice over.

Dagonee
 

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Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
 
Heh. I confiscated a Chick tract at a local pizza place.
 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Confiscated? People aren't allowed to have those in your community?
 

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Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
 
As long as I don't have to see them.
 

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Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
 

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Heh. I confiscated a Chick tract at a local pizza place.

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Did you burn it?
 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Seriously -- what do you mean when you say you confiscated it?
 

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Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
 
I took it to show some people who thought they didn't exist (that chick.com was a satire site or something).

Then I disposed of it where no innocents would see it.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
I had next-door neighbors who used to hand them out on Halloween. A favorite of theirs was the one about how people who dress up for Halloween are going to Hell.
 

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Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
 
I had never heard of this guy before...I guess he has his beliefs and must really be dedicated to them to go through all that trouble.

It reminds me of another group of "Christians" that go to every "Shriner" or "Masonic" parade or public get together and yell how they are going to burn in hell.

I saw a website of theirs one time. It was rather comical as well.
 

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Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
 
I find it amazingly sad that Jack seems to actually believe the diatribe he's spreading.

very sad indeed.
 

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Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
 
Ok, it seems that Mr. Chick believes in a complete literal interpretation of the Bible, which is fine.

But it appears his "prosyliting" technique is to try and "scare" you into believing, which is again one way to do it.

But there are many ways to help people or allow people to accept your help.

Scare tactics are not the most efficient (if the prophets in the Bible have taught us anything, it's that scare tactics don't work).

I found his painting of "false" teachings/religions and the Devil to have some hidden male homoeroticism.

The whole thing looks like a parade of male anatomy embracing.

I wonder if he knew that before he painted it?
 

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Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
 
OH MAN
I came in here looking for a neat new movie coming out.

Taal I thought it was a new request for us to watch this new movie! *Lost recommendation was fantastic by the way.*

I actually was given one of those chick tract pamphlets as I went to or from elementry school. It bugged me enough as a little kid to want to rip it up and throw it away. hmm
 

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Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
 
C--worse than trying to scare us into believe, he tries to trick us, with half truths, misquotes, and bad information.

Those are not the methods of heaven, but that of sinners. To sin for "a good cause" is still to sin.
 

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Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
 

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Ok, it seems that Mr. Chick believes in a complete literal interpretation of the Bible, which is fine.

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Question: Is there an edition of the Textus Receptus in Greek that you can recommend - and equally an edition of the Hebrew - for those studying the languages as they are used in the Bible? I appreciate that eventually Bible scholars need to study the various manuscripts that comprise the Textus Receptus and the various Hebrew manuscripts as well, but a single edition seems a sensible starting point for learning.

Answer: I have a very simple suggestion. Grab an interlinear King James New Testament (or Old Testament or single-volume Greek/Hebrew Bible) and correct it anywhere the translation disagrees with the King James. I am not kidding.

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I had next-door neighbors who used to hand them out on Halloween.

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My parents made ME hand out Chick tracts for Halloween. When I was 6.
I actually like Chick tracts, and whenever I get deployed to Korea or Thailand or something I try to grab some of the foreign ones. Some of the older ones have absolutely hilarious drawings of "sinners" and "demons." It's funny because the artwork is similar to the 70's "druggie" artwork of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book. (Don't even get me started on the contradiction of my parents simultaneously owning subversive literature and Chick tracts.)

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Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
 
I think my mother probably had some Chick Tracts, and even handed them out. She was a Baptist, too, at least for a while. She taught Sunday school and stuff. everybody loved her until my parents divorced.

After that, this one remarkably ugly woman made such a stink about having a divorcee teach Sunday school that mom left to find a church that would allow her to be active. The pastor didn't want her to leave.

Anyway, the churches we went to after that didn't touch Chick Tracts. I think they may have been mentioned in one or two of them.
 

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