Creationists - Jack Chick, Kent Hovind, etc.

[Wizzrobe]

It's also been rumored that Chick almost never leaves his house, because he thinks the Vatican has assassins after him.

Yeah...ask Rodrigo Borgia about assassins and the Vatican sometime!

 

[Shokew]

http://enterthejabberwock.com/2008/10/chick-dissection-first-bite/

I love vampires and needed to leave this here, especially the brilliant commentary on how much Chick is looney throughout - other than that, I can't really go near this guy without someone else (including myself, albeit badly) making fun of him.

However, how Chick is still relevant and/or still going is anyone's guess. But I know the answer is obvious.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I bet he could make a lot of money by having his tracts sold to hipsters at coffee shops

 

[Wizzrobe]

I bet he could make a lot of money by having his tracts sold to hipsters at coffee shops

Him and tumblr would be a match made in "heaven"

 

[Shokew]

I bet he could make a lot of money by having his tracts sold to hipsters at coffee shops

Should we really give the Tumblrfucks more firepower to piss off normal people with, TBH? Hipsters, maybe, but these guys for example... I don't know - Oh, right...

 

[Gensdupays]

IIRC, people just leave the tracts in places where a lot of people find them. On top of the hand driers in bathrooms, etc. Also there's been some speculation that some people don't believe Jack Chick is a real person, but a pseudonym for several artists/writers.

 

[Linako 2.0]

We're not actually sure if there is a Jack Chick. There are several artists who work on these comics. It might be a shared penname, or Jack Chick might be fucking dead because the man who was "Jack Chick", (again, not sure if it was actually him or one of the people under the penname) would be like fucking 90 something right now.

There have also been some pulled tracts that were not well received, offensive, or the writers have changed their minds on their viewpoint.

I'm starting to think Jack Chick is a collection of bored artists who want to piss people off and made these strips as reactionary satire.

 

[Morbid Boredom]

I'm starting to think Jack Chick is a collection of bored artists who want to piss people off and made these strips as reactionary satire.

Oh, summer child...

 

[Linako 2.0]

Oh, summer child...

I'm still waiting for liquid Jack Chick to make a swansong comic where he shows that he himself goes to hell because God likes to play DnD.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Him and tumblr

What if there were Chick tracts for certain kinds of values? There'd be one about proper pronouns, one on cultural appropriation...

 

[LordAzazel]

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
As a Dungeons and Dragons player this is my favourite tract
As of yet though I have never been in a dungeon of bondage

Have you seen the movie? A faithful adaption, because the Chick kind of crazy you just can't parody better than the original is.

 

[Grand Number of Pounds]

lol, I collect Chick tracts and there's even a collectors' club online

http://www.monsterwax.com/Tracts.html

someone once said people never throw out porn or Chick tracts - and for the same reasons

 

[Rilakkuma]

Pls. Those are nowhere near as hilarious as the animated ones.

 

[HG 400]

How is Chick a lolcow? His tracts are inspirational and life-changing and you faggot Catholics are all going straight to hell.

 

[Abethedemon]

Oh fuck yes. I am a huge fan of Jack Chick. His beliefs are so ridiculously over the top, and he pans every religion that isn't his as satanic. There are some good dissections online as well.
http://www.boolean-union.com/Chick/
http://enterthejabberwock.com/category/dissections/jack-chick/

 

[Arctic]

Don't know if this guy counts as a lolcow, but he definitely produces lulz. Like the OP said, he's gotten more and more delusional over time. There was even a quote on his website where someone claimed that the Cult of Cthulhu was an actual organisation. To call him "one of the most repugnant human beings alive" is a huge exaggeration though. He's just a bigot and wrong, nothing more. Also, the Dark Dungeons movie is pretty great.

 

[champthom]

Jack Chick has some eccentric religious beliefs and I strongly disagree with him on just about everything, but I don't think that makes him a lolcow. Yes, I guess he has views that are amusing but I don't think that makes him a lolcow in the same vein as people who usually fit that bill.

This was one of my concerns with having a lolcow forum - discussion sometimes is framed as "I don't like this person's beliefs, therefore they are a lolcow." This would be interesting discussion in say in an off topic forum but not really a lolcow forum topic. At best it's a person we can lol at but that's not quite the same as a lolcow.

Of course, I'm a private citizen now, so to speak, so my opinion has no official weight.

On topic, I can confirm the Dark Dungeon movie is hilarious. And if you're slow on the uptake, it's clearly satire, though they try to be serious but there's effectual moments where they're like "YEAH, WE'RE SERIOUS ABOUT THIS, WINK WINK, NUDGE NUDGE, STOMP STOMP."

They should totally make a movie based on The Last Generation. I think that's the name of the tract, the one about where it's an Orwellian future, probably pre-apocalyptic where the anti-Christ is ruler and there's a one world religion, legalized homosexuality, etc. and everyone is a Nazi and the little kid rats out his Christian parents. I think it'd be an interesting apocalyptic story if you managed to get rid of the preachy message, it'd be decent.

Also I find it amusing that some tracts are in English except they have black characters instead of white characters.

 

[Handsome Pete]

If we're counting Chick as a lolcow, then he was my first. Summer of '95. It was this tract.

For a few years there, he was pretty much everyone's first lolcow. In the 90s (and possibly earlier), when teenagers made their first nervous ventures out into the larger world, there was always some asshole waiting to give them a Chick Tract. It really helped my generation grow up cynical. If I actually put some effort into it, I could probably sperg all day about how Chick's insanity was an integral part of the 90s/early 00s slacker experience, but nostagia is boring so I'll confine it to this one post.

I bet he could make a lot of money by having his tracts sold to hipsters at coffee shops

Back when independent coffee shops were more of a "thing," pretty much every one I ever went to had Chick Tracts around in some capacity, for the amusement of the customers. Hell, I used to frequent a place that was decorated with blown-up copies of Chick cover art.

Of course, that's only relevant if he's a lolcow. If he's not, well, I blame kids these days not knowing their bovine history.

 

[Abethedemon]

Don't know if this guy counts as a lolcow, but he definitely produces lulz. Like the OP said, he's gotten more and more delusional over time. There was even a quote on his website where someone claimed that the Cult of Cthulhu was an actual organisation. To call him "one of the most repugnant human beings alive" is a huge exaggeration though. He's just a bigot and wrong, nothing more. Also, the Dark Dungeons movie is pretty great.

That was one of his compatriots IIRC. William Schnobelin (?) a former Catholic/Wiccan/Satanic High Priest.

 

[Lachance]

Oh that's some nostalgia right there. I used to collect Jack Chick comics as a kid. His workers would hang out in front of my middle school a handful of times a year and hand this shit out. I had no idea he was still active.