Editing Chick Tracts (section)

==So, why is this guy so hated?==
Perhaps because, besides being the Satanic Panic reincarnated into a single man, he was woefully misinformed on several issues. Allow us to list his more general offenses against religion, rationality, good taste and tabletop.

*He was violently intolerant of all religions except his own. That includes but is not limited to: Islam, Judaism and ALL FORMS OF CHRISTIANITY THAT DO NOT FIT HIS PERSONAL VIEW. He had a special hatred of Roman Catholics, who he was sure were Satan's agents on Earth, and one of his tracts was (I kid you not) [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp THE DEATH COOKIE]. We concede that, in one of his last comics, he portrayed Eastern Orthodox Christians in a positive light. But. First, many would argue it is much more creepy and threatening when a batshit insane person likes you rather than hates you (especially when they involve you in one of their stupid and illogical conspiracy theories, which he, of course, did). Second, most likely he was simply too uneducated about Orthodoxy, because if he would realize that Orthodox are quite similar to Catholics in absolute majority of things, he might've had... [[RAGE|a different opinion...]]
**He has this insane obsession with the King James version of the Bible, an edition that's been considered inaccurate and outdated in translation ''*for centuries*'' when there have been better versions available. There's a sizable group of rather nutty Christians who live and die by the KJV translation, but none are anywhere near so delusional as Jack, who considered the newer translations a satanic plot to mislead Christians into hell.
**Non-Christians were invariably portrayed as either completely off their meds or pants-on-head retarded (usually leading to one of them asking "durr wuts a jesus" at some point); while Christians are invariably portrayed as smug, self-righteous twats. Thus Mr Chick managed to piss off all sides.
*He claimed that Dungeons and Dragons is a gateway to Satan, [[Satanic Panic|just like everyone else on that bandwagon]]. Nevermind the fact that Gygax himself was a Christian... sort of. Gygax was a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and covering whether it's a Christian denomination or its own religion is beyond this wiki's specific call of duty (he later left JW and his later interviews implied that he became mainline Christian, so there's that). Safe to say, there's a reason D&D angels were the good guys and demons/devils/dameons/etc. were evil - a far cry from outright ''Satanism'' (not that it would likely have made a difference to Jack, of course). He had a similar view about [[Lord of the Rings]] and [[Harry Potter]] (probably due to [[Tolkien]] being a Catholic). And ''*that*'' is why he drew /tg/'s ire, attacking fantasy fiction that was often based on Christianity itself; it 'helped' that said works were produced by some of their favorite authors. Sadly, we have no knowledge on his opinions about Narnia, written by one of the most charismatic and ''unambiguously'' Christian authors, [[C. S. Lewis]]. We speculate that Chick only had frothing hatred for it however, owing to his inability to read into anything that isn't the KJV Bible.
*He outlived [[Gary Gygax]] on both sides, the dingleberry on this steaming sundae.
*His artwork is shitty. Probably why he let Fred Carter do a lot of the work; his style was more realistic.

For /tg/, Jack Chick earns his Immortality in the Sphere of Derp for his Dark Dungeons comic strip, which is a vicious smorgasboard of unrivaled lulz that happens to be a metaphor for how Dungeons and Dragons is gateway to the Unholy. Due to the sheer audacity of this man daring to heap shame upon the favorite pastime of neckbeards, they have banded together unleash their copious rage and DERP upon him. Though they are justified in this, srsly, did you read the above?

However, any parodies of his comics espousing what is considered to be a more 'enlightened' point of view are often loaded with just as much FAIL and hypocrisy as the original tracts.