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[BlitzDungeoneer]

I really don't want the discussion cloggin up the WTF thread, so, here you go.
Continue this discussion here.
For the unelightened, I WTFed upon reading Chick tracts, we started discussing what hell was and also said Chick tracts, and it just proceeded from there.

[LordSlowpoke]

that is the best op in the history of discussion threads. i don't even mean this ironically

in other news, colonizing hell

are we going with maximum overdante regarding what it actually is? a funnel-like tiered pit?

or do we go the good ol' bunch of caverns with a magma sea and brimstome in such abundance it's just flowing out of the brim

[Sergarr]

uh

all previous religion threads ended badly

so

uh

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Yep.
This is more a discussion on Jack Chick, his tracts, and hell. So yeah.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Sure, I'll PTW this.

[Loud Whispers]

What is Jack Chick?

[scrdest]

What is Jack Chick?

A miserable pile of religious cartoonist.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_T._Chick Wikipedia.
He is, essentially, a fundamentalist Christian. His beliefs are many, and sometimes completely contradict each other. He likes to think playing D&D gives you Satanic POWAH!, Halloween is a holiday that comes from a Druid custom involving pumpkins, and also that all Christians are persecuted.

[Loud Whispers]

He likes to think playing D&D gives you Satanic POWAH!

Brb rollin for Satan

[Baffler]

Excerpts From Wikipedia:

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The first eleven form the Crusader comics series, which follows the stories of two fundamentalist Christians and addresses topics such as the occult, Bible prophecy, and the theory of evolution. Six comics present the testimony of anti-Catholic activist Alberto Rivera, who claimed that, as a Jesuit priest, he had become privy to many secrets about the Roman Catholic Church. Among Rivera's claims: He credits Catholicism with founding the Islamic religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as the Jehovah's Witnesses; starting the Holocaust; founding Communism, Nazism, and the Ku Klux Klan; starting the World Wars; masterminding the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Great Depression and the assassinations of U.S. Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy. There are also three independent comics, one telling stories from the King James Version of the Bible (Chick is pro-King James Onlyism), one relaying the claims of Charles Chiniquy regarding Catholicism, and one detailing Chick's opinions on Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Chick's tracts cover subjects such as abortion, homosexuality, non-Protestant Christianity, the occult, rock music, left-wing politics, popular culture, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, antisemitism, and the theory of evolution, generally in a very negative and conspiratorial light. Chick believes many of the world's problems are deliberately caused by the Roman Catholic Church.

Chick also claims that Satan and demons promote the occult through mystical and New Age beliefs, rock music (including Christian rock), Wicca, and fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons to deceive people and send them to Hell. Chick is opposed to abortion and preaches against pre-marital sex. He believes strongly that homosexuality is sinful, and makes reference to the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah in tracts pertaining to homosexuality. He also is a Zionist, and claims that the Catholic Church is Israel's worst enemy. He also opposes attempts to resolve the Israeli–Arab conflict until Israel gets significantly larger than its current size, and also blames American support of those attempts for natural disasters that have struck America.

Not touching this one. This is the sort of topic that inevitably goes up in flames, even if nobody posts in it...

PTW.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I totally forgot he was a Zionist, I can hardly tell.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Yep.
Some people on the Internet do fairly amusing dissections of his tracts.
Are there any fundamentalist Christians on this forum? I find myself doubting, as all fantasy-related things are merely TOOLS OF DE DEBBIL to them, but still.
At least, that's the impression I get from these tracts.

[scrdest]

I totally forgot he was a Zionist, I can hardly tell.

Odd, seeing as he makes all his bad guys look like awful Jewish caricatures. Maybe it's a subconscious thing for him.

[Baffler]

I've met people who have this kind of doublethink. They seem to think Israel is the best place for Jews, mostly because if they're in Israel they can't be in their hometown.

[Remuthra]

Haha, discussing Jack Chick. Poor fools.