Posted by Hemant Mehta in An oldie, but a goodie.
What if this particular Chick Tract was written by an atheist…?
It might look like this:
The whole thing is fairly entertaining as well as a quick read.
You can read the full parody version here.
Anyone know any other sites where atheist Chick Tract parodies exist?
[tags]atheist, atheism[/tags]
A guy named PsychoDave used to have a bunch on his site!
The funniest thing about that particular Chick Tract is certainly not the truth. When I was in the USCG in Traverse City Michigan, there seemed to be a large amount of evangelicals. It was there I met the first Xian who told me that ‘you don’t have to be good, all you have to do is believe’. (to be fair, one of the evangelicals was a good friend who was a kind, giving and quite tolerant and forgiving person)
The Tract is even less truthful when you look at how ‘practicing’ atheists are actually treated in the military.
Lost me at ‘jungles of Iraq’, sorry, but otherwise…
Here’s a Chick tract parody, by James Huber, that makes fun of Jack Chick himself:
http://www.jhuger.com/tract/dtr/index
There are more in the sidebar on the right.
Brilliant stuff.
“Anyone know any other sites where atheist Chick Tract parodies exist?”
Bronze Dog had this one: Image Dogtoring #1: Christians & Crusades
I like it much better than “Unholy Joe.” For one thing, none of the atheists in Bronze Dog’s parody use army shoes and army food for a personal toilet. Also, Bronze Dog’s parody doesn’t use The God Delusion as a sort of Scripture. If I were to show “Unholy Joe” to a Christian, it would tend to confirm said Christian’s misapprehensions about atheists.
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JJ: I agree. Pretty much myself and the other atheists that I knew in the USCG and know today, wouldn’t be such jackasses as to retaliate like that.
Now that you mention it, it does confirm the atheist stereotype a bit.
http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick
http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick/archive.html
Enter the Jabberwock has a running Jack Chick Tract commentary, updated a couple of times a month. Every update he or a guest dissector go through a Chick tract, mocking it and pointing out the BS.
http://www.enterthejabberwock.com/?cat=12
That was stupid, IMO. I can see the potential for a clever parody, but the shitting in the shoes, the ninja references, the fake Dawkins quotes, etcetera was just juvenile and idiotic—not witty at all. Sorry…
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