{"id":4964,"date":"2016-10-25T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2016-10-25T09:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:06:39","slug":"jack-chick-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4964","title":{"rendered":"Jack Chick, 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Chick, the producer and publisher of those annoying cartoon tracts that evangelicals love to jam into people&#8217;s hands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-ln-jack-chick-obituary-20161024-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">has died<\/a>.  He was 92.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jack T. Chick, whose cartoon tracts preached fundamentalist Christianity while vilifying secular society, evolution, homosexuality and the beliefs of Catholics and Muslims, has died. He was 92.<\/p>\n<p>Chick died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday evening, according to a Facebook posting Monday by Chick Publications, based in Rancho Cucamonga. It did not provide other details, and a call for comment left after hours was not immediately returned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An example of a typical tract page, below.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/jack-chick-shame.jpg\" width=550><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jack Chick\u2019s tracts were the exemplar for the ignorance and bigotry that decent, educated people find repellent in Christian thought. He condemned Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, LGBTQ, science &#8212; anything and everything that didn\u2019t comport with his childish theology. As eagerly as evangelicals pass them out, however, he must have earned million$.  In spite of all that money, though, Chick lived a valueless life devoted to the degradation of others, and we are well rid of him. As Clarence Darrow once said, \u201cI have never killed a man, but I have read a great many obituaries with pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Chick, the producer and publisher of those annoying cartoon tracts that evangelicals love to jam into people&#8217;s hands, has died. He was 92. Jack T. Chick, whose cartoon tracts preached fundamentalist Christianity while vilifying secular society, evolution, homosexuality and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4964\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}