Sheesh, the persecution mania amongst Christian leaders has got so bad that now they’re jostling to be the most hated and abused by Jack Chick. Bill Donohue, the red-faced blowhard who leads the Catholic League, has this to say:
Chick’s goal was to convince Protestants that Roman Catholicism was a false religion. He published scores of books and magazines, and released many videos, but he was most famous for his small tracts and comic books. His 3×5 inch cartoon-like booklets were released all over the world, and in dozens of languages. His titles were provocative: “Are Roman Catholics Christians?”; “Why is Mary Crying?”; and “The Death Cookie” (meaning the Host). These were among his bestsellers.
Some of the assaults on Catholicism were quite specific. For example, Confession was the work of Satan.
Donohue even goes so far as to count the mentions of gays, Catholics, Muslims, on and on, at the Chick Web site.
Ho-hum. Since Catholics were until recently the largest religious group in the United States (they have been overtaken by ‘nones’), this should not be a surprise*. Of course the largest group draws the most fire; why would Chick waste ink on a vanishingly small group like, say, the Jains?
Notice this, too: Catholics have a much larger support community than any discrete Protestant sub-group, or gays or, even, kids who want a career in science. When a Catholic kid encountered a Jack Chick tract condemning him, there were plenty of people at the ready to pooh-pooh the malice. But a gay kid who happened across Chick’s odious cartoons was pretty much on his own.
When Donohue starts counting insults, he shows what an empty and trivial man he actually is.
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* There are more Protestants overall, which is what Chick was, but they are fractured into multiple sub-groups.