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Anyone else have any feelings on these things? Personally, I love them and I couldn't tell you why. It's just.. it's like a vestige of the 50s that I can still find in my day to day life in the 21st century. They're just so over-the-top that I wonder who can take them seriously.

For those of you who are wondering what I'm talking about:

http://www.chick.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_tract

I just love finding them in odd places. When I was still working at GNC, I once found one stuffed behind product on the shelf as I was cleaning the shelf. I was once out for a walk on a local trail by Lake Ontario and found it on the ground. The latest one I found was hanging on a sign in the drivethru of McDonalds (don't judge, I wanted chicken nuggets!), I snatched that thing right up. This one (Party Girl) didn't even have a customized back with a local church or anything.

I don't want to see this thread turn into religion bashing, I'm not about that, just... like I say, these strike me as kinda quaint. Though I will say I was unaware that SPLC designates Chick Publications as a hate group. I can see how they'd do it I suppose, but I was unaware.

Anyone else like them? Or is this just me?
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BoneSnapDeez wrote:The D&D one is legendary.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
Wait that is actually real? I always thought that thing was just a comic that had different text shopped in to replace the real stuff. I need to go lie down.
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BoneSnapDeez wrote:The D&D one is legendary.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
But wait, I thought rock music was just aligned with Satan. I didn't realize it was full on occult paraphernalia.
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These things are so classic. Just like Geraldo's special on Satanic ritual abuse. Look it up on YouTube for a lark.
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flex wood wrote:
BoneSnapDeez wrote:The D&D one is legendary.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
Wait that is actually real? I always thought that thing was just a comic that had different text shopped in to replace the real stuff. I need to go lie down.
Oh no, no no. It's actually real. And according to Party Girl, all parties are directly organized by Satan himself to get people to join his ranks.
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BoneSnapDeez wrote:The D&D one is legendary.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
And now it's a movie:

http://darkdungeonsthemovie.com/

I didn't realize Chick Tracts were a thing people still left in public places until driving through the southern US and living in Texas. They're amazing.
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Gunstar Green wrote:
BoneSnapDeez wrote:The D&D one is legendary.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
And now it's a movie:

http://darkdungeonsthemovie.com/

I didn't realize Chick Tracts were a thing people still left in public places until driving through the southern US and living in Texas. They're amazing.
I'm surprised the hipsters out here don't put them out ironically.
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I don't get chick tracts, but I do get a ton of various christian tracks in my daily dealings with people. I have been given them while working by people who think I need them, have had them left on my car and I get them every time I am in a doctor's waiting room. The waiting room ones are always very nice people, but the ones who approach me while I am working are always, "You clearly need saving."

I need to do some readings from the various books I purchased while working at a christian book store. The store itself had nice people working there, but some of the items sold were sheer madness. I bought them for posterity, like the epic war going on between Our Lord and Savior Gandalf and the antichrist Harry Potter.

I have tons of spiritual warfare literature and manuals as well as books...truly remarkable stuff.

Know that I do not harbor any ill will towards christians in general, but the spiritual warfare stuff is out and out lunacy.
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