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-- Jack T. Chick
That guy would've gone through hell in high school unless he was really good at sport. :P
Or really funny. When I was in school I know I thought those little booklets were hilarious.
Err... booklets? Am I missing something here? Oh, are you talking about airplane flights?
"Chick tracts are short evangelical-themed tracts created by American publisher Jack Chick."
Ahh, thanks. I don't think we ever got those here.
Ooh, they are insane. You can read many or all of them online. This one ("Dark Dungeons") is a favorite of mine.
Edit: As mentioned in the Wikipedia article, an earlier version of "Dark Dungeons" (the one that was my introduction to Chick tracts a couple decades ago) listed C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as occult authors whose books should be burned.
No link to chick.com is complete without mentioning these two things:
Dark Dungeons with MST3K-style snarking. This really improves it.
Lisa, which is no longer published or archived on the Chick Publications web site. It has some... interesting ideas about how one should deal with people who rape children. (Everything is okay after five minutes of prayer! No need to report it to the police! Lalala!)
There are some other great Chick tracts, but those are the cream of the crop.
And also the famous Who will be eaten first? which, for the avoidance of doubt, is not really by Jack Chick.
That's brilliant. :P
I have a notion that the Chick flavor of Christianity is trying to set itself up as the monopoly supplier of fantasy.
Jack T. Chick draws religious comics called Chick tracts.
Wouldn't surprise me if he'd been home-schooled.
from a European perspective, and simultaneously from the perspective of one who sees most state-sanctioned educational approaches as almost comically counter-productive, the idea that appears common in the US, that home schooled = fundamentalist christian parents is confusing. Many home educators in europe are specifically atheist.
As far as I can tell, "home schooled = fundamentalist" is American left-wing nonsense.
In fact, while many home-schoolers are fundamentalist, there are a slew of motivations. Some home schoolers think that conventional schooling is a bad environment for learning. Some have children with special needs. Some live in isolated areas. Some are religious, but not pathologically so.
Depends on which parts of Europe, I guess. I am told that homeschooling is relatively common in the British Isles, but in the countries I am familiar with (Italy, Sweden, to a lesser degree Germany and Belgium) it ranges from unheard-of to extremely unusual.