Catholic Man Objects To Chick Publications Distributed By Local Church



Here's an intriguing story about a Lancaster, Pennsylvania man objecting to the anti-Catholic content of the Jack Chick tracts he's been encountering. The tracts are coming from the nearby Liberty Baptist Church, Ephrata. If you're not familiar with the Chick material, they are religious parables and story and lectures in comics form that are printed on the cheap and then made available to churches as low-cost outreach program: members are asked to leave the little mini-comics in various place in their community in the hopes that the person that picks them up will encounter the Word of God through the material. The simplistic cartooning and heavy messages have made the Chick tracts a perennial subject for ironic appropriation by people who don't share those Christian impulses.

Anyway, the gentleman in question -- himself a generally active believer -- didn't appreciate the criticisms of the Catholic Church in the material he read and liked it less when he found it there was a local distribution point and that Chick Publications is defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. The article is about the gentleman's complaints and his general thoughts on the pamphlets, and whether or not they represent a mainstream protestant point of view. (My own experience is that they don't, but they do represent an evangelical point of view that's mainstream in that group for not being examined.)
 
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