Grand Fromage posted:

Inferior Third Season posted:

I went to a Catholic high school for freshman and sophomore year, and one of the girls in religion class asked if witchcraft was real, and the teacher said that it could work, but it was really the devil doing his devil tricks, and not some earth goddess or whatever. Of course, a group of students from the class got together and tried some witch spells, and nothing happened, and a few of them ended up rejecting Catholicism as a whole because their witchcraft didn't work like they were told it would (clearly, in this instance, the devil's sneaky trick was not letting the witchcraft work).

ToxicSlurpee posted:

OK, I'll grant you that one.


The evangelicals I grew up around simultaneously believed that magic was literally real and that there were people who practiced it and that literally everybody that claimed to practice magic was a fake using stage magic and sleight of hand because nobody can actually use magic. Similarly they believed in the same "God will forgive literally anything if you ask nicely enough" thing that Chick had going on while also believing that God will punish you for the sins of the father and that black people were thus stained and had a harder time getting into Heaven.

They were not the most consistent people.

BooDoug187 posted:

Some reason this reminded me of like a selection menu on an old version of Civilization.

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

Has anyone else looked into the sources and citations in Chick tracts? Hoo boy, there's some good stuff in there.

Most of his anti-witchcraft and more conspiracy-leaning stuff is from Bill Schnoebelen, one of those obviously-lying "ex-Satanists" that were popular in the 80's and early 90's. He claimed that he was a high-ranking Satanic priest, a grandmaster Druid, a Wiccan high priest, a Knight Templar, a 90th degree Mason, a Gnostic bishop, a vampire, and a Mormon, all within about a 4 year period. He was a Catholic priest all throughout this, because the Catholic Church is secretly the source of all of these thungs. Oh, and he hosed a fallen angel once.

I'm not sure which scenario I like better: either Jack Chick bought all of that bullshit hook, line, and sinker, or he knew it was bullshit, but he hated Catholics SO MUCH that he pushed it anyway.

Twelve by Pies posted:

A real Christian would never lie. Since Alberto Rivera accepted Jesus in the correct way that Jack Chick approved of, that meant he was a real Christian and thus everything he said was completely true. So yeah, he was just genuinely that stupid. Since Chick really hated Catholicism, he was eager to buy into a dumbass conspiracy theory that they're the cause of every evil thing in the world.

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

To understand Jack Chick's worldview, just take the plot of the Assassin's Creed games, and then replace "Assassin" with "True Baptist Christian" and "Templar" with "Catholic Jesuit scum".

Like, I'm not even joking, that's seriously how they look at history and the world around them.