When is the last time you found a Chick Tract?

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MagnumPIsMoustache@reddit

Someone gave me one about Halloween and Satanic ritual killings when I was trick-or-treating. Scared the shit out of me.

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acromantulus@reddit

Found one in a bathroom pre-COViD. Tossed it in the toilet where it belonged. Had one guy hand me one in front of Kroger a few years prior. Tossed it in the trash right in front of him.

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be_loved_freak@reddit

I never saw one in my entire life because I live in New England lol I saw my first one around 18 while poking around online.

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Signal_This@reddit

I think they still make them. Some lunatic kept trying to leave them in my workplace bathroom a few years back.

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

I wonder if they're still as crazy or if they've toned them down a bit to make them more palatable.

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Pitiful_Desk9516@reddit

They have not changed at all. https://www.chick.com/

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bloomdecay@reddit

My favorite is the one that inadvertently endorses selling your soul to the devil.

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Pitiful_Desk9516@reddit

Or where Islam was created by the Catholics to torment the "real" Christians.

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MahoganyShip@reddit

I found one about how the Masons are satanists and it was entertaining

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DamYankee77@reddit

Can confirm. Source: Recovering Catholic.

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SheBrokeHerCoccyx@reddit

Oh please share this one. I must see it 😆

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bloomdecay@reddit

Here you go: https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=1109&ue=d

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Signal_This@reddit

I should have had a flip through, but I just threw them out. They have always given me the creeps. I refuse to believe that they have ever convinced someone to become a Christian.

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

They are creepy and weird. Kind of a peek into the mind of a madman.

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mrtimtracy@reddit

They’ve got an honest to goodness storefront, too!

8780 Archibald Ave, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730

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ThunderBayOPP@reddit

Isn't Rancho Cucamonga where Workaholics took place? I feel like there could have been an amazing episode involving the guys and Chick Tracts 😂

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mrtimtracy@reddit

OMG yes! That would have been a great episode.

The place is a 90 minute drive from me and I've probably got some huge gaps in my collection.

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spinereader81@reddit

That art is far too good for that garbage.

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Sadly my daughter had one of these in her halloween candy bag last year. While I heard of these living in the northeast I had honestly never seen one up close before. After I explained what it was to my wife her immediate reaction was "Can't they leave religion out a holiday just once!"

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Tinyhulk27@reddit

I only saw them on Halloween.

The asshole who gave em out instead of candy had their front yard covered in them from the kids who pitched em after leaving his porch.

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dewihafta@reddit

Our neighbors had these in the bowl outside their house for Halloween one year, mixed in with hard candy. A couple years prior to that one, they put in my kids bag a lollipop with hearts on the wrapper that also had the writing, “to: (youngest neighbor kid) from: Ms. (some teacher).”

After the chick tracts, i told my kid to skip their house from now on.

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

There was a house in my neighborhood that gave out both. You'd get a nice little grab bag of assorted candy, with a little pamphlet attached: "At Halloween, you get a lot of treats, but the Devil has many tricks for you..."

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Background-Action-19@reddit

If you guys like chick tracts, then you're going to love the comic book series. Off the top of my head it was called "Crusaders" or something like that.

It was about a white guy / black guy duo that went around doing feats like fighting against the number one supervillains of the planet: I am of course talking about the Catholic Church.

The white guy was ex special forces, and you'll never guess what the black guy did before being saved: He was a gang leader.

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New_Collection5295@reddit

The anti-dnd one shown here is amazing but the movie was better. All the “cool” attractive people at a frat party chanting DnD! Absolute cinema.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

I love that movie. Here's the scene you mention (they chant RPG though): https://youtu.be/LADLv1803Vw?t=405

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New_Collection5295@reddit

Ahhh, right. RPG. DnD would have got them sued.

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arcxjo@reddit

Jackie would've had a stroke if he'd seen Pathfinder.

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New_Collection5295@reddit

PF goblins would have him crapping bricks!

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arcxjo@reddit

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Spiritual-Promise402@reddit

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CustomReplicant@reddit

Found one at the bus stop in front of work a week or two ago. Wasn't one of the fun ones, so I just chucked it.

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tom_tofurkey@reddit

https://thenib.com/jack-chick-goes-to-heaven/

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

FYI, 2016 was 10 years ago. 🤣🤣

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tom_tofurkey@reddit

I stand corrected! I thought it was a lot more recent. But I maintain the fact that he’s dead is fun.

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

It is indeed!

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kellyasksthings@reddit

Man, I haven’t seen these in years. We saw them from time to time in NZ in the 90s-early 2000s. I was extremely Christian then (not any more), and we all found them hilarious then bc they were so ridiculous.

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Pastel_Phoenix_106@reddit

I went to college in the 2000's not far from Bob Jones University, where they were published. They were everywhere. Haven't seen one in years up here in North Carolina.

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TwilightSaphire@reddit

Can confirm that the guy who made these is long dead. He was in my D&D group, and he failed a saving throw. He just stopped existing. Very sad.

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RememberCakeFarts@reddit

Last year. Someone likes leaving them at my post office, usually some worker finds them and those them out but once in a while one slips by. Haven't encountered one of the infamous classics yet.

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sassypants450@reddit

If only my DM was a smokeshow satanic dominatrix, instead of my equally nerdy friend Brian whose hobbies are RPGs and being a musical theater fanboy. Alas! We can’t all live in a perfect world. (Just kidding though, shoutout to Brian who is actually awesome).

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PrincessRegan@reddit

Someone handed me a “comic book” at Comic-Con a few weeks ago. Alas, it was a Chick Tract.

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MrBones_Gravestone@reddit

My wife collects them lol

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arcxjo@reddit

You remember how in our day parody movies like Airplane! and Naked Gun were actually good?

Well turns out you can parody the concept of a parody and get literal fucking gold. https://www.darkdungeonsthemovie.com/

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arcxjo@reddit

My car has a Masonic license plate. My windshield just generates them.

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OhWhyNotMarie@reddit

I’ve still got mine about STDs

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lordtyp0@reddit

Now they fold fake money up to torment poor people.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

My partner's parents are evangelical Christians, most of their kids left the church as soon as they moved out, and are very much not fans of the church (or the parents). So the parents now send them cards, and lately started including this fake money. Hasn't really gone over well.

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RalphMacchio404@reddit

Hey now, they also use them to not actually tip servers.

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GalaxyRedRanger@reddit

They’ve been doing that for 20+ years now.

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lordtyp0@reddit

Yeah, point was it was DnD when it came out until probably the late 90s then it went to folded dollars.

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Number1Framer@reddit

The Halloween one is my favorite. Did you know Halloween is Satan's birthday? Just hilarious.

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small___potatoes@reddit

Never heard of these before

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

I bet they're probably more popular in the Southern US. They're tiny little comic books, like Tijuana Bibles, warning against various "Unchristian" things like heavy metal, Dungeons & Dragons, homosexuality, etc.

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sparkster777@reddit

And Catholicism

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ThunderBayOPP@reddit

As someone who was raised Catholic, I thought these were hilarious 😄

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el_pinko_grande@reddit

I remember people handing these out outside the Catholic church by my college up in Northern California.

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Zagmut@reddit

Saw a few of them growing up in Alaska.

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Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit

Naw, so would get them in Boston as a teenager from the crazy Jesus guy.

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zombie_overlord@reddit

So like the exact opposite of a Tijuana Bible in content

Hilarious reference lol

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bananawarhol@reddit

There was a gas station somewhere in western Oklahoma that had them set up on a table and arranged tastefully like a library display about seven or eight years ago. I don’t remember where it was exactly, but it was bizarre.

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battlecanary@reddit

I think that's the package you can order with a whole selection of different ones. Rather than just getting certain ones in bulk.

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throwawayfromPA1701@reddit

On brand for western Oklahoma tho

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battlecanary@reddit

I was handed one when I went in for jury duty last December. I thought the person was passing out something for jurors since there was a long line waiting to enter the courthouse, so I laughed when I saw what it was. I actually collect them for laughs though, so I wasn't upset.

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DerGroteMandrenke@reddit

I’m a frequent city bus rider and still find them at bus stops once or twice a year. They’re always the boring ones, not the fun ones like the D&D one you posted.

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Funkopedia@reddit

"This Is Your Life" is probably the Pinnacle of ~~Chick Tracts~~ English Literature

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the-great-crocodile@reddit

You have to buy the D&D ones in bulk now.

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

Oh, lame.

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oddball_ocelot@reddit

Each and every Halloween someone in my neighborhood hands these out instead of candy.

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countzero1234@reddit

A year ago or so but it wasn't a very good one. Just something about how we can't control the environment (only God can) so global warming isn't real and somehow it roped Jews in but I don't remember how.

My wife didn't understand why I was excited to find it but it's the only one I've ever found in the wild.

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PokerbushPA@reddit

They tried to shame us for using our imaginations but expect us to believe in talking snakes and virgin birth.

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choppafoah@reddit

I work retail and I used to find them all the time, had a good collection going, always looking for the super rare one about how the Jesuits created Islam.

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Magica78@reddit

I found one at Walmart about a month ago. It's still in the trunk of my car.

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zenprime-morpheus@reddit

Never came across one in real life.

Discovered them on the internet and at first through the proselytizing was sarcastic because they were so over the top and darkly humorous that I couldn't believe they were serious tools of indoctrination.

Gobsmacked to find out they were.

But I do still enjoy really good meme/parody tracts like the one about worshipping Cthulu "Who will be eaten first"

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Reasonable_Effort_@reddit

A few years ago. Some asshole had pinned them to every tree on the main avenue of my neighborhood.

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TheRealDoomsong@reddit

Lmao… i used to collect those as a teen because they were so comically ridiculous

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HylanderUS@reddit

I'm German and those are not at all anything here, but I found one on my mom's car when I was about 12. I was super excited someone left a free comic book, until I read it.

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

They made it all the way to Germany?!

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HylanderUS@reddit

Yeah, Evangelist gonna evangelize! We also had Mormons and Jehovas witnesses soliciting, all the churches. Just no Scientology, they're designated as a cult in Germany (as they and many others should be)

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

I'm so sorry our nonsense bullshit washed up onto your shores.

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SerjiAzazel@reddit

I rip them up any time I find them. Last time was maybe 6 months ago, so I must work around some real high quality humans.

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Orvan-Rabbit@reddit

Oh no! You defeated my imaginary threat! /s

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SerjiAzazel@reddit

Okay?

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The_Lawn_Ninja@reddit

There was lay in my neighborhood who used to give these out at Halloween instead of candy, along with an invitation for all the kids and their parents to join her at "grandma's" house for prayer and Bible study.

She was not a grandma. She wasn't even old. Just a religious loon.

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FergalCadogan@reddit

Never

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Classical_Fan@reddit

I come across them occasionally. I kind of love them. They're terrible, but they're hilarious if you don't take them too seriously.

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Hyper_Applesauce@reddit

At work like 2 months ago

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jawnbaejaeger@reddit

I haven't seen any since college.

However, back in college, my friend adored these things. She thought they were the funniest thing (because they are), and she'd go out of the way to find them and hang them on her dorm wall. She's Catholic, and Chick tracts are extremely anti-Catholic, and that was part of the humor for her. So I've seen a lot of Chick tracts, but it's been a hot minute.

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Abidarthegreat@reddit

My favorite is the fake $20 bill they leave that has scripture on the other half that they leave in random books at the bookstore or on shelves at the grocery store.

Religious people sure do love shoving things down people's throats.

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Spiritual-Promise402@reddit

Wow. I thought this was my own personal hell. Had no idea anyone else suffered through these forced "life lessons." While I desperately wanted to dress up for halloween and go trick or treating, my mom forced me to hand these tracks out instead if candy. Yes. We were that house 🫣

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

Oh man, that sucks.

You were basically Rod Flanders, huh?

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Spiritual-Promise402@reddit

Basically. Was turned away from watching nudity in movies, but was allow to see people get blown to pieces in action movies. Go figure

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Spiritual-Promise402@reddit

I'm convinced these tracks is what divided all the christian sub-sets into believing "everyone is doing it wrong but me." Jesus fucking christ, the audacity. I believe this very discriminatory mind set from these propaganda pieces is what drove a wedge in my family. Literally believing the same thing, but not in a very specific way.

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delphine1041@reddit

I found an anti-halloween one tucked into the candy display at Walmart just this past fall. It was the only one I'd ever seen in the wild. I showed my kids and everything, but they were not impressed.

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wooq@reddit

Got one under my windshield wiper a couple years ago. Blew my mind, I thought they were like a 90s thing.

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Jamie7Keller@reddit

I remember as a kid I was brought up pro science and pro Christianity….i took the anti-evolution one to my bio teacher really wanting him to help me debunk it or explain it away. He politely declined to engage on it.

In hindsight sight he probably thought I was trying to be anti-evolution and pick a fight. Sorry buddy. I wasn’t as dumb as you thought I was in the way of science. But I was much dumber than you could have expected in social interactions.

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Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit

There was a multi-part series on Jack Chick on the podcast American Hysteria a few years ago that was very interesting.

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PhoneJazz@reddit

I have never seen or heard of these and I have so many questions! (lifelong resident of Suburban Washington DC). I understand that it is likely a reference to the “Satanic Panic” of D&D. But…why is it called a Chick Tract?

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Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit

The person that started the company that made them was named Jack Chick. And, uh, they were tracts.

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brc37@reddit

Like two years ago I got one in the mail. I live in small town Alberta so I wasn't surprised. The ironic part is that I was listening to Last Podcast on the Lefts series about Mike Warnnke at the time.

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GalaxyRedRanger@reddit

My cousin was a fundamentalist baptist and use to pass these out all the time. Never to someone’s face. But she’d stuff them everywhere, including in my house and car.

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helikophis@reddit

Been a long time, I always enjoyed them!

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OlDirtyTriple@reddit

My mom worked at Waldenbooks back when they were around.

She'd find these shoved between books in the New Age section all the time.

I dont know how many she kept but she'd bring home different ones all the time. We thought they were funny.

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wrestlegirl@reddit

Kids these days don't get my Chick tract memes 🫤

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bloodectomy@reddit

I'm pretty sure I've never actually seen one in person (which is pretty wild given I was raised in an evangelical church)

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TheBardicScribe@reddit

I used to have a DVD of the movie Dark Dungeon that someone made the casing for for me that was made from these. Sadly it got stolen. I do wonder if that's the first time in history a chick tract was stolen.

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MahliSaia@reddit

Someone mailed one to my house last year out of the blue. I'm a Christian, and I've heard of them, but I think that might have been the first time I'd ever seen one in person. I showed it to my best friend (who is also my pastor's wife) and we were kind of in awe at how cringy it was.

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stavago@reddit

They still make them, but as AI reels on TikTok, etc

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FreezingRobot@reddit

A couple of years ago, my son and I stopped by a yard sale up in the lakes region here in New Hampshire, and I got to talking to the old guy running it. When I told him I worked in tech and my son was hoping to do the same, he goes "Oh you two are very smart people, I have some stuff you'd probably be very interested in reading!". He goes into the house and comes out with a bunch of Chick Tracts. I had to fight to keep myself from laughing. But he was a nice old guy and gave my son some free stuff, so I just thanked him and we went on our way. I skimmed a few of them when I got home but threw them away.

My son had never heard of Chick Tracts, so they must have fallen off in the past few decades.

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erinhannon321@reddit

My kids still get them every year at Halloween from one of our neighbors, yes still.

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LilMushboom@reddit

I used to collect them as a teenager, although my mother tossed them box after I moved out when she renovated my old bedroom unfortunately. They are DEFINITELY unhinged, even by fundie standards. Jack Chick arguably was levels of paranoid beyond even the average Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or similar.

Considered purely as comic art they're an interesting bit of American kitsch, I have to say. Deeply bonkers world view but well done as a piece of the art form.

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Bubbly-Main2016@reddit

Yesterday - at my Dr office hidden in a drawer

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XMXP_5@reddit

I saw several in a nice display rack by the door in a CB radio shop in rural Ohio. I enjoyed paging through an anti-mormon one while my buddy got some connections in his radio soldered.

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Soma2710@reddit

I live in New Orleans. The Jesus People are the absolute best to talk to during Mardi Gras. We collect Chick Tracts and trade them if we get doubles so we can get the full set.

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Big_Slope@reddit

Someone mailed one to my office a few months ago. I had to explain to the interns what it was.

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Human-Ad1643@reddit

A creepy dude gave me one and tried to talk to me on a flight when I was like 12 and had a seat away from my parents. I put it in the seat pocket in front of me and turned up whatever punk I was into all the way in my headphones for the rest of the flight.

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khumprp@reddit

Never saw one, and I'm here thinking, "Damn, GM leads a solid group of players."

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

Exclusive. If your character dies, you've gotta leave. Hardcore.

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aspect-of-the-badger@reddit

The place I rented a uhaul from had a bowl of them and stack of free bibles.

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Kalistes@reddit

My friend was mailed one about a week after her mom died when they were out of State. Got a wtf out of me

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit (OP)

By whom?! That seems creepy.

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full_of_ghosts@reddit

I'm pretty sure I've only seen one in the wild once, when I was in high school. Some random guy just handed me one while I was walking down the street.

I've read several of them online, though. They read like the most ridiculous possible parody/satire of evangelical Christianity. I know they're meant to be taken seriously, but that makes it even funnier.

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LoudAd1396@reddit

Someone used to put them in our lockers in high school (in 03-04 or so). I tried to collect all of the different variations. I thought they were hilarious.

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digitaljestin@reddit

I used to find them stuffed in 24 packs of soda. Some dude was waking around stores and inserting then in the hole you use as a handle.

What a piece of shit.

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Pitiful_Desk9516@reddit

In the wild? Ages. Do I look them up because they are hilarious? yes, I do.