Then Dean Esmay linked to several of his other tracts. One of them, entitled "The Curse of Baphomet" features the story of Alex Scott, whose son attempts suicide. Their friend, Ed, links the suicide attempt to Alex's membership in the Masonic lodge. Ed then proves himself to be some kind of expert on Masonry, and claims that the "highest degrees" of Masons learn that the "Great Architect of the Universe" is this guy Baphomet.
Ed later claims that the "symbol of Baphomet" is worn by "the century's most notorious Satanist." Here's another fun claim:
The Washington Monument is of the devil. And, the ancient Egyptians worshiped Sauron.
OK, enough of this one. Next, we have Chick's claim that "the Catholic Church invented Islam." (The previous statement quotes Dean Esmay, not Chick).
Ironically, the title of this tract is "The Storyteller."
Oh, by the way: The Catholic Church is plotting world domination, and keeping a database of every protestant's name (see the final panel of this page). They're murdering (last panel) the illegitimate children of nuns and burying them under their convents. They're bullying churches into the ecumenical movement by breaking up churches, which they do by accusing innocent pastors of having affairs with young women, or by whisper campaigns, or by outright assasination of protestant church leaders. The Catholic church also being run by the Masons (See the 14th panel).
I wish Chick had stopped at "This Was Your Life."
Posted by Blog Jones at July 12, 2004 05:28 PM
| Category: Religion
I'm no big fan of the Catholic Church, but Jack Chick is really quite a loony. He doesn't even try to substantiate his claims! He really seems like quite a hate monguer.
That tract was written a long time ago though; Jack may have more in common with the RC now - what with them both being so intensely anti-gay.
Posted by: Bob at July 14, 2004 01:08 PMI'm a supporter of Chick tracts, not because I don't believe Chick is a bigot, but because his work proves far beyond a doubt how bigoted his critics really are. Chick doesn't call for a jiha, r for all catholics to be killed the way Muslims call for the death of infidels and Jews and so on) what he does do is use his illustrations to persuade people in seeing his point of view. I see that is an exercise in free speech, something Canada obviously has something against since they banned his work (along with Fox News).
See this website for a NEUTRAL view of Chick's views and work. While he has made some erroneous claims about the Catholic church, the rest has been dead on.
Whoops, I see I never posted the link. Here it is:
Posted by: Mac at July 19, 2004 11:44 AMThe "rest has been dead on"? By whose definition?
Here's some more balanced info on the disturbed caroontist:
http://www.postfun.com/pfp/features/98/feb/jtchick.html