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BUDDHA: The Jack Chick Archive


If you already know who Jack Chick is, no introduction is necessary. If you 
don't, there's very little I can do to help. He's the guys who writes, draws 
and publishes those irritating little palm-sized comic books that the kind of 
Christians who think the King James Version of the Bible is authoritative hand 
you as "sound reading matter". He loves stories about nice sinners burning in 
hell and hippies being doomed and Christians getting oppressed by the New 
World Order and stuff...

ANYWAY, there's a Jack Chick Archive on the Web. Please find below the URL and 
the authors' interesting disclaimer. The site is under construction, so be 
patient....

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http://dig.netcentral.net/vx/chick/jackhome.html

Disclaimer

We don't agree with Jack Chick!!!

Well, sort of...

Both of the people responsible for this site consider themselves Christians,
one of them a fairly conservative, even fundamentalist one. There are areas
of Mr. Chick's work that neither of us would dispute, although we could
probably dispute with each other about just which areas those are.

However, even when Mr. Chick is right, he is more often then not wrong, we
believe, in his presentation. His work is mean-spirited and oftentimes
repulsive to look at, and he seems to be obsessed with hell and with the
more gruesome aspects of the gospel. (See The Gift for the vilest
crucifixion you'll ever see in your life, if you don't believe us.)

And when Mr. Chick is wrong, he is horrid. He seems obsessed with
conspiracies, man-made and spiritual, usually involving the Catholic Church.
He has helped foster at least three outright frauds on the American church
over the past two decades: John Todd, a self-proclaimed "Illuminati" member,
who said he was responsible for starting "Christian rock;" Alberto Rivera, a
fake Catholic priest whose tales are the basis for much of the Chick
Catholic-bashing canon; and "Dr. Rebecca Brown," (not her real name) whose
license to practice medicine was revoked for, among other things, diagnosing
serious illnesses as "demonic possession."

This only begins to scratch the surface of the things we don't agree with
Jack Chick about. We hope that, in the coming months, our tone in discussing
his work, and articles that will be appearing here, will reassure those who
might otherwise be offended.
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