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[bloodyrosemccoy]

Some well-meaning soul has been leaving Chick Tracts in the nooks and crannies of the Liberry. I keep finding them tucked next to the catalogs or on the edges of tables. So far I have not yet been convinced to be saved, but I have been haunted by that weird feeling you get when something from the Land Of Internet Crazies manifests in the physical world. Sorry, mystery evangelist. Probably not what you were going for.

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[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

I love those things. they're so ridiculous.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I was trying to explain them to my coworkers, without much success. "... And they've got an ironic cult following, mostly because one is about how Dungeons & Dragons leads directly to actual sorcery and suicide." I'm not sure they followed.

[dark-skada.livejournal.com]

This is a Cultural!Thing! I am completely unaware of. So having a moment of "wait, what?!" followed quickly by "if this is real, can you send me one of these?" Considering my gaming group is also almost entirely made up of TCKs like myself, I doubt they know what it is, either, and thus I feel the need to share...

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

*grin* Welcome to the inexplicable, crazy awfulness of Chick Tracts, featuring Dark Dungeons.

You can cruise the rest of the site, where more tracts are published in their entirety, but if you're like me you start to feel kind of dirty after one or two of his badly drawn and condescending arguments against homosexuality, evolution, Islam, Catholicism, Halloween, Santa Claus, and pretty much everybody.

[black-rider.livejournal.com]

The first time I got hold of a Chick Tract, I thought it was a joke. Then someone explained to me that people really believe those things, I was very, very sad.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

While those things aren't the whole reason I've been an avid D&D player for years, they certainly didn't hurt. I figured anything which gets this kind of reaction has to be worth checking out.

At first I believed they were intended as parodies. It was only after the fact that I learned they were meant in earnest, and was astounded. Obviously I can't even imagine running into one in real life. O_O

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

My first thought is always, "Wait, people use these UNIRONICALLY?!"

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

Chick tracts are a perfect demonstration of Poe's Law. To this day, no one is entirely certain whether Chick is missing crucial brain matter or playing a very long-reaching and subtle prank on fundies. (Although Occam's razor suggests the former)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Every damn time I come across them I think, "This is a joke, right? These CAN'T be real ... RIGHT???"

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

AH HAHA I once got one of those in a work letter, it was effing ricockulous. Stamp waisted!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

The one yesterday didn't even make sense. I had no idea what the hell message it was supposed to send. Other than, you know, JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS GOD HATES EVERYBODY JESUS.

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

HA we got those left in the bathroom at the museum I worked at. I lol'ed hardcore.

Then I threw them in the trash and scouted the rest of the museum for more (I did find one more on a windowsill).

[kellyratherodd.livejournal.com]

A couple of years ago, someone would leave Jack Chick tracts in the library's ladies room. Just there as far as I know.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I miss X-Entertainment's Chick Tract Theater. It was riot. (Soul Story. SOUL STORY.) But Jack Chick asked them to take it down (very politely and not at all angrily, apparently) so they did.