Comments on: Jack Chick and his Weirdness http://www.cosmictap.com/jack-chick-and-his-weirdness/ Miscellaneous Affronts To Your Assumptions Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:39:30 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: PG http://www.cosmictap.com/jack-chick-and-his-weirdness/comment-page-1/#comment-2573 PG Thu, 22 May 2008 19:08:35 +0000 http://www.cosmictap.com/?p=927#comment-2573 Several years ago I visiting my parents and went with my grandmother to the Super Walmart. We were getting into the checkout line and I realized I'd forgotten something my mother had requested, and dashed off to grab it. I was back in two minutes, and my grandmother, who speaks a little English but reads none, handed me a Chick tract describing Hinduism as human-sacrificing devil worship and asked what it was. I was so furious that I couldn't marshal enough of her language to explain it to her -- and given her happy outlook on life and where she lives, her conviction that everyone is friendly and kind, I didn't want to explain it. After I calmed down, I had to wonder at what kind of person would keep that particular tract on him in a town where less than 1% of the population could possibly be Hindu. I imagined him as having a jacket like the guys who sell fake watches on Canal Street in New York, with a dozen internal pockets in which to keep his dubious wares, except instead of muttering "Rolex, I got Omega, Cartier," he mumbles, "Witchcraft, abortion, I got your Dungeons & Dragons..." Several years ago I visiting my parents and went with my grandmother to the Super Walmart. We were getting into the checkout line and I realized I’d forgotten something my mother had requested, and dashed off to grab it. I was back in two minutes, and my grandmother, who speaks a little English but reads none, handed me a Chick tract describing Hinduism as human-sacrificing devil worship and asked what it was. I was so furious that I couldn’t marshal enough of her language to explain it to her — and given her happy outlook on life and where she lives, her conviction that everyone is friendly and kind, I didn’t want to explain it.

After I calmed down, I had to wonder at what kind of person would keep that particular tract on him in a town where less than 1% of the population could possibly be Hindu. I imagined him as having a jacket like the guys who sell fake watches on Canal Street in New York, with a dozen internal pockets in which to keep his dubious wares, except instead of muttering “Rolex, I got Omega, Cartier,” he mumbles, “Witchcraft, abortion, I got your Dungeons & Dragons…”

]]> By: PG http://www.cosmictap.com/jack-chick-and-his-weirdness/comment-page-1/#comment-6184 PG Thu, 22 May 2008 17:08:35 +0000 http://www.cosmictap.com/?p=927#comment-6184 Several years ago I visiting my parents and went with my grandmother to the Super Walmart. We were getting into the checkout line and I realized I'd forgotten something my mother had requested, and dashed off to grab it. I was back in two minutes, and my grandmother, who speaks a little English but reads none, handed me a Chick tract describing Hinduism as human-sacrificing devil worship and asked what it was. I was so furious that I couldn't marshal enough of her language to explain it to her -- and given her happy outlook on life and where she lives, her conviction that everyone is friendly and kind, I didn't want to explain it. <br><br>After I calmed down, I had to wonder at what kind of person would keep that particular tract on him in a town where less than 1% of the population could possibly be Hindu. I imagined him as having a jacket like the guys who sell fake watches on Canal Street in New York, with a dozen internal pockets in which to keep his dubious wares, except instead of muttering "Rolex, I got Omega, Cartier," he mumbles, "Witchcraft, abortion, I got your Dungeons & Dragons..." Several years ago I visiting my parents and went with my grandmother to the Super Walmart. We were getting into the checkout line and I realized I’d forgotten something my mother had requested, and dashed off to grab it. I was back in two minutes, and my grandmother, who speaks a little English but reads none, handed me a Chick tract describing Hinduism as human-sacrificing devil worship and asked what it was. I was so furious that I couldn’t marshal enough of her language to explain it to her — and given her happy outlook on life and where she lives, her conviction that everyone is friendly and kind, I didn’t want to explain it.

After I calmed down, I had to wonder at what kind of person would keep that particular tract on him in a town where less than 1% of the population could possibly be Hindu. I imagined him as having a jacket like the guys who sell fake watches on Canal Street in New York, with a dozen internal pockets in which to keep his dubious wares, except instead of muttering “Rolex, I got Omega, Cartier,” he mumbles, “Witchcraft, abortion, I got your Dungeons & Dragons…”

]]> By: Josh http://www.cosmictap.com/jack-chick-and-his-weirdness/comment-page-1/#comment-1952 Josh Thu, 01 May 2008 10:52:57 +0000 http://www.cosmictap.com/?p=927#comment-1952 So the message is -- do drugs, get into heaven. Sounds like a plan... So the message is — do drugs, get into heaven. Sounds like a plan…

]]> By: Josh http://www.cosmictap.com/jack-chick-and-his-weirdness/comment-page-1/#comment-6185 Josh Thu, 01 May 2008 08:52:57 +0000 http://www.cosmictap.com/?p=927#comment-6185 So the message is -- do drugs, get into heaven. Sounds like a plan... So the message is — do drugs, get into heaven. Sounds like a plan…

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