Thursday, February 5, 2009

A Discourse on Jack Chick's "Papa"

I wanted to write this, so here it shall be posted. And here is the link: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1057/1057_01.asp?wpc=1057_01.asp&wpp=b. I own none of this except for parts of my comments.


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Why didn't the Vatican just use their Youtube channel?

And what is the point of the umbrella? Really? Just to hold it a foot
away from the guy sopping wet with a mic in his hands?

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What is that cat doing? Watching the news? Why are these men
ignoring this cat? And has Jimmy been living under a rock all his
life?

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That's right, Jimmy. The Bible will only confuse you.

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It's not what you think. The altar boys were Flannigan's cover in
his take-over-the-world plan. But don't worry; he'll be back. Those
Catholics always are.


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Yes. The pope has complete legal authority, can execute anyone at
will, is not adverse to killing any possible usurpers...

Et tu, Mr. Powell?

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"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"Jesus is God?"
"Absolutely!"
:|
Make no mistake, Jesus is God, but I'd say that these guys are
going to be busted by the Reasoning Police pretty soon.

Aside from that, have you looked at Ceasar lately? What does this
guy do at night, mad science?
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Wow, I actually agree with this panel. O_o

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What is with that cartoon devil? Why are they making Satan look
like a faun that's hit the potato chips a little too hard?

And isn't that the Washington Monument?

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Didn't the Western Roman Empire fall? Like, 1500 years ago? And
the Eastern 500 years ago? And why are the people ignoring this
giant faun that's standing right in front of them? And why is
Protestantism considered annihilated? Who was making this tract,
the Cardinals?


Look at the Pope's eyes. LOOOOOK! They shall haunt you in the
night!

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Every limbo boy and girl
All around the limbo world
Gonna do the limbo rock
All around the limbo clock...

And that family has issues. Really. How are they "lovely" and "old"?
Half the people are infants!

Aside from that, I actually do agree about not baptizing children. :|
If only they'd present their message in a way that I can't make fun of.

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"Bondage": "For just as you once presented your members as
slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness,
so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading
to sanctification.
" (Romans 6:19b, English Standard Version of the
Bible)

And his priest claims to be equal to God? I don't know what Bible
they're reading, but that's blasphemy, which would win me over
to Chick's point if I knew that any Catholics believed that. Feel free
to correct me, please!

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Wait, what? He claims to be "inferior to God"? What about the last
panel in which he claimed to be equal to Jesus?

...And if the guy on the cloud isn't Jesus, who do they think he is?

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Just look at the guy running into the cracker and tell me you
wouldn't look like Anthony does not if you had to eat it.

On a more serious note, I also do not believe in transubstantiation,
or the idea that the wafer literally becomes Jesus' flesh. However,
communion, or the breaking of bread among believers in
remembrance of Christ's death, is outlined in the Bible:
"Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing
it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said,
'Take, eat; this is
my body.'
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he
gave it to them, saying,
'Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood
of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness
of sins.
I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until
that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.'"

(Matthew 26:26-29, English Standard Version)

I guess the main difference is that we take it figuratively while
Catholics take it literally. :|

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Why are all the priests always so grumpy and evil-looking?

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Pardon me for my ignorance, but what about "That fire will be
more grievous
than anything a man is capable of bearing in this
life" implies that the speaker will be going there? Some context
would be nice.

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...Jesus will destroy the Vatican? Is that in the Bible?

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I pray that nobody was so influenced by my snarking to
disbelieve Christ. I kind of wanted to reaffirm my own beliefs
here. If you're interested, please contact a pastor in your area,
or me!

...Try Bible.com for a free online Bible. It's a little closer to the
source than these tracts, I assure you. :|






Now I shall take the time to state my own beliefs about Catholics
from what I know. Feel free to disagree, and maybe even talk
about it with me.

I think some Catholics are people relying on good works to get to
Heaven, as Chick claims. However, some so-called "Christians"
are the same; they are not truly Christians if they just pretend to
be. And I also believe that some Catholics are Christians with some
practices with which I do not agree, and I'm sure people have
debated over that a lot. I don't have any Catholics here, though,
so I guess the point of this was not to start a debate but to inflict
my mood swings on Chick.

Sorry, Jack Chick. Sorry, any offended. And thank you for reading.

Also, wonky formatting, so sorry for any weird line breaks and
small images. :P

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