{"id":4977,"date":"2016-10-26T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2016-10-26T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:55:34","slug":"donohue-jack-chick-especially-hated-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4977","title":{"rendered":"Donohue: Jack Chick especially hated Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheesh, the persecution mania amongst Christian leaders has got so bad that now they’re jostling to be the most hated and abused<\/a> by Jack Chick. Bill Donohue, the red-faced blowhard who leads the Catholic League, has this to say:<\/p>\n

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Chick\u2019s 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\u00d75 inch cartoon-like booklets were released all over the world, and in dozens of languages. His titles were provocative: \u201cAre Roman Catholics Christians?\u201d; \u201cWhy is Mary Crying?\u201d; and \u201cThe Death Cookie\u201d (meaning the Host). These were among his bestsellers.<\/p>\n

Some of the assaults on Catholicism were quite specific. For example, Confession was the work of Satan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Donohue even goes so far as to count the mentions of gays, Catholics, Muslims, on and on, at the Chick Web site.<\/p>\n

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*<\/sup>. Of course<\/i> the largest group draws the most fire; why would Chick waste ink on a vanishingly small group like, say, the Jains?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

When Donohue starts counting insults, he shows what an empty and trivial man he actually is.<\/p>\n

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\n*<\/sup>   There are more Protestants overall, which is what Chick was, but they are fractured into multiple sub-groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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