{"id":79,"date":"2007-03-04T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/03\/04\/jack-chick-is-spinning-in-his-grave\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T07:48:11","slug":"jack-chick-is-spinning-in-his-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Jack Chick is spinning in his grave."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"as4.jpg\"None of us is, sadly, unfamiliar with the many\u00c2\u00a0attempts to use comic books to attract the unwitting into organised religion. While the scare-tactics of the Jack T. Chick organisation and the “Chick Tracts” sought to force unbelievers into sacred submission under threat of damnation for all eternity, apparently you really can catch more flies with honey than with threats of never-ending torture. Witness a new kind of religious tract, the really gay one<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

A product of the WeHo Church in Los Angeles, Adam & Steve: The Comic Book<\/em><\/strong> features the longest conversation I’ve ever seen at closing time at a gay bar. Espescially the longest conversation about Jesus<\/em>. Apparently the WeHo (“West Hollywood”) Church was “created to be a place for you to celebrate God’s love and make new friends in a safe and non-religious setting.” Huh. That philosophy does extend to the comic, in which one dude trades Jesus for sex. Which is kind of amazing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, rather than a comment on religion or… you know… whatever<\/em>, I just wanted to catalogue this new step on comics’ path into ‘the mainstream’. How nice of the nerd diapsora to worm their way into the irreverant churches of Hollywood. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

– Christopher
\n(Thanks to Anthony Easton for the heads-up, and I’m sorry I left this thanks off of the initial post.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

None of us is, sadly, unfamiliar with the many\u00c2\u00a0attempts to use comic books to attract the unwitting into organised religion. While the scare-tactics of the Jack T. Chick organisation and the “Chick Tracts” sought to force unbelievers into sacred submission under threat of damnation for all eternity, apparently you really can catch more flies with … <\/p>\n

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