I recently heard that the infamous Chick tracts are not allowed in some countries due to their hateful content and endorsement of intolerance towards gays, muslims, jews, catholics, liberals, gamers, rockers, pro choicers, feminists and anyone else who isn't a virtual clone of jack chick.
Having read a few of them I know that old jack is still a bottemless well of intolerance, hatred, xenophobia, homophobia and general hostility towards absolutely anyone who isn't a mirror image of his own ego. (Boy, can you imagine how him and fred phelps getting together? Feel the love.....)
Chick tracts made the news in america over a year ago when someone put copies of an anti-islam tract on cars packed outside a mosque, and the followers of the religion of peace responded with death threats to the person responsible if they caught him.
I've heard some countries have banned chick tracts, and from what I've heard they may be illegal in a lot of european countries now, if not all of europe.
So, are they legal in your country or not? I'm just curious.
BTW, while looking up chick tracts on wikipedia, I came across a killer parody of Dark Dungeon that I'm sharing with anyone who hasn't seen it yet. It's a pretty funny rip on it asking of 3e D&D was a tool of the devil. Here: (http://a_company_of_wolves.tripod.com/tract1.html)
Have a laugh on me....
As far as parodies go, my favorite is Darque Dungeon (http://www.epsilonminus.com/darquedungeon/).
Dark Dungeons made me quit playing D&D the first time I read it back in the 80s. We started the session back up as soon as we'd stopped laughing, but technically he achieved his goal, if only for a little while.
I think roleplaying in the wacky world of Jack Chick would be pretty fun, but they say I aint right in the haid...
You gotta love the MST3K version of Dark Dungeons though...
http://www.fecundity.com/darkdung/index.html (http://www.fecundity.com/darkdung/index.html)
Quote from: James McMurrayDark Dungeons made me quit playing D&D the first time I read it back in the 80s. We started the session back up as soon as we'd stopped laughing, but technically he achieved his goal, if only for a little while.
I think chick got one kid to stop playing D&D permanently. The poor kid choked to death on a pizza while laughing.
Man, i wonder how many kids had their D&D stuff, which they bought with mnoney they'd earned, burned by dickheaded parents over chick's bullshit.
What really pissed me off was the fact that They Sue Regularly never had the balls to sue him over it. I mena they threatened every gamer who wrote about D&D without putting all those damn copyright and trademark symbols next to , but never sued chick for dark dungeons or sued rivera for saying kids killed their parents over D&D.
Quote from: hgjsAs far as parodies go, my favorite is Darque Dungeon (http://www.epsilonminus.com/darquedungeon/).
Thanks, that was kinda funny, especially if you got tired of WW stuff.
Seriously, though, I'm kind of curious: Does anyone here live in a country where chick tracts are illegal due to hate speech laws?
Quote from: SgtSpaceWizardI think roleplaying in the wacky world of Jack Chick would be pretty fun, but they say I aint right in the haid...
You gotta love the MST3K version of Dark Dungeons though...
http://www.fecundity.com/darkdung/index.html (http://www.fecundity.com/darkdung/index.html)
Yeah, I'd seen that one a long time ago. Still one of the best, though.
Damn I wish I had some drawing ability, I'd do one called "Jack Chick: Agent of Satan." that had chick working for the devil. By portraying god as being as small minded and intolerant as chick does, he drives millions of people away from faith and belief, thus serving satan's cause.
BTW, if you can draw worth a damn and want to run with that idea, go for it.
To be honest the UK has had laws against inciting hate since the seventies. Only now since the major stooshie regarding the treatment of muslims has a law been instituted regarding inciting religious hate.
At the same time they put a law in place against "glorifying" terror.:rolleyes:
At the moment the "world of comedy" continues to resist both laws.
A group of writers recently released a book of short stories called "glorifying terror". It wasn't banned.
Frankly the religious hate laws are 40 years too late. We could have used them to nip that difficulty in Ulster in the bud.
In Britain "freedom of speech" is a tradition not a right.
People still stuff Chick tracts under my apartment door from time to time. I worry about the crazed militant Chtistians here. That whole not needing to show cause to apply for a concealed weapons permit in El Paso County coupled with the "If they're not Christian, then they deserve death!" attitude of several local maga-churches makes for many sleepless nights. Plus, now those nutjobs know where I live, apparently ;)
Yeah, I saw your name on a "heathens watchlist" website. They've got your number.
Amusingly enough, I picked up a Chick tract in a Middle Eastern language (Pashto perhaps) at a chapel at Bagram airfield. In the chapel's defense, they were in a box and not readily accessable for none but the curious, but still they were there.