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Wrath Via “Natural” Disasters
December 25, 2008 on 11:55 pm | 6 Comments
I know that Chick Tracts aren’t exactly a sterling representation of Christianity, but every once in a while I find one that I could never see anyone believing. I know, “Christians believing in weird stuff and taking crudely-presented information at face value.” Not a realistic concept.
And Chick Tracts? Who can’t take seriously little cartoon booklets left in public restrooms for innocent (yet doomed to Hell) passers-by. Chick even redrew one of their famous anti-Islam cartoons to better suit black audiences. They aren’t just trying to save souls with their crude and predictable story lines, they are targeting specific market segments. Even the most popular tract, This Was Your Life, has been redrawn to include black angels and a black god.
The tract I want to focus on here is one that attempts to equate natural disasters caused by God’s wrath. What incurred God’s wrath, you say? Why America turning its back on Israel is what!
J. T. Chick reminds us that the Jewish people are untouchable and any nation that turns their back on them is doomed to fall apart. Blah blah blah.
Note the shifty Arab in the last cartoon telling who I can only assume is George W. Bush that Israel has too much land. Imagine that — religious people trying to tangle themselves with politics.
There are more than 750 tornadoes and more than 1oo tornado-related fatalities every year. There have been more than 270 hurricanes that have struck th United States since 1851 that have caused countless fatalities and countless millions of dollars in property damage.
Are we to believe that each and every occurence of bad weather in the world is a direct result of God’s intervention? More specifically, are we to believe that each hurricane and tornado is a punishment for poor relations with the nation of Israel?
I smell bullshit.
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The tornado on the cover of the book kinda looks like a giant hairy penis. God’s Penis of Wrath perhaps?
Comment by Megan — December 27, 2008 #
Wait a minute. I thought Katrina was punishment from God for New Orleans having gay people in it.
Now you say it was for the US policy regarding Israel?
Jeez. I need a program. I’m never sure anymore which religious freak has the “direct line” to God.
Comment by Kaa — December 30, 2008 #
Wait. I thought 9/11 and our dead soldiers were the result of gay people. Okay. Now I’m thoroughly confused as well.
Comment by God is Pretend — December 31, 2008 #
LOL! Love the screaming “DOES ANYBODY NOTICE A PATTERN?” question. Well, of course there’s a pattern to be made if you are selective enough with what you are trying to connect (as well as the natural human tendency to see patterns where none exist). Maybe this L. T. Chick is suppering from something similar to what John Nash suffered from, but without the genius component?
Comment by Larian LeQuella — January 7, 2009 #
So who was sending all these tornadoes and perfect storms thousands and thousands of years ago, before gods were invented? I’m so confused. Truly, he does work in mysterious ways.
PS – great site!
Comment by FrodoSaves — January 18, 2009 #
@Frodo– Why God was sending them, for He was full of wrath over not having been invented yet!
Comment by Chris — January 29, 2010 #