"A film version of the Bible exhibited on the sides of buildings in South America." That is such a hot idea.

The one I've got totally cracked me up when I found it about 30 years ago. In it a hippie girl dies of an acid flashback. She's perfectly lucid, in a hospital bed, but the doctor is grim: "I'm sorry, she's not going to make it." As I recall she has time to repent her sins to her mother or grandmother before passing away.

To an early '70s hippie, it was hysterical....

I still find the odd comic (really odd) around lying in some conspicuous spot around town. Last one was in a movie theater lobby and featured the evils of witchcraft. Turns out playing "Harry Potter" did the poor girls in.

A good parody archive is at the Jack T. Chick Parody Archives, a tribute to the "Walt Disney of paranoid fundamentalism".

Oh yeah, there's this great archive of stuff at disinformation as well.

If you want to see the real thing, www.chick.com seems to be
the site. I've always prefered the Jews for Jesus comics
myself. Less brimstone, but still preposterous.

Edited by author 05-02-2003 01:49 PM
I had an email conversation with a "Jack Chick Representative" a few months ago. I found the site and decided (just to see if I could get a response) to offer feedback commending him for his tenacity, but respectfully disgreeing with him.

Over the course of about 7 emails back & forth, I actually found his email-lackey (one of the 35 employees, I suppose) to be surprisingly personable. The basic argument in every message was along the lines of "You're going to Hell because you don't believe what we believe, which is the only thing that's True, and that Proves it!" but it wasn't nearly as vitriolic as, say, Fred Phelps and his ilk. In the end, though, I decided that I will continue to risk flying on planes which aren't piloted by Christians, against the explicit advice of Jack Chick Publications.

I don't advocate harrassing them, but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend writing to them and having a little discussion. It certainly entertained me.

Of course you should never fly in a plane piloted by a Christian! If the Rapture should happen and the pilot gets magically beamed away to heaven in flight, you're kinda fucked.

iblis }()+

ps, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGHHHHH!!!