"My husband is a minister who does evangelistic work, but I am shy. I am active in my church but I wanted so much to witness to non-Christians...
I have been leaving Chick tracts everywhere! I leave them on shelves in the grocery store and drug stores, on phone booths, on newspaper boxes, in restaurants, in public restrooms, at the doctor's office. I made special trips to the local health department, WIC clinic, homeless health clinic...just to leave tracts. Even the food stamp office and Dept. of Human Services waiting rooms. The public library. Outside the high school in a bad neighborhood. I wrap them in plastic and toss them in driveways! I scan the local section of our paper for people convicted of DUI or other crimes and mail the tracts! If people did this in every town, so many could be reached. Oh yes, I send SOMEBODY LOVES ME to abortion clinics.
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You know this tempts me to make up tracks explaining the ToE and place them in churches, private Christian schools, and other places where Christians gather.
At least my tracks would be educational.
"If people did this in every town, so many could be reached."
I seriously doubt that. People would just despise you even more for being a stupid bitch trying to alter their actions and beliefs. Keep to yourself and stop forcing your principles on others who don't give a crap. Everyone has the right to have his/her own beliefs, and you're not going to change that and make everyone Christian.
unless someone comes up to you and asks to hear about your god, then you have no business trying to tell them about it.
and guess what? thats what the Bible says too. you know, that book your confederates like to thump, which almost none of you have actually read all the way through?
Or you could donate, like, time, you know like free labor, or like money, which you know, is the labor of others....
No?
You're just gonna give them fairy tales to wipe themselves with?
whatever.
We need you, Mrs. Anonymous Poster, in my town. You see, I collect Chick tracts, I love the things. I have about 20 of them, and my dad and I read them when we have only a few moments to kill. They are always good for a quick laugh. Well, except the on on sexual molestation where the dad lets his neighbor abuse the daughter, and then the wife forgives them when he finds god. That one is just....*shivers*.
But try as I might, I haven't seen a chick track in my city since 2003. So come on, Mrs. Anon, help me fill my collection! Come to Altoona!
How about actually doing something helpful, like working at the food bank, or homeless shelter.
And I hate finding shit in my driveway. If I caught you throwing stuff on my property I'd let the rottweilers out.
Not likely. I don't know a single person who would pick up that trash and do anything other than toss it where it belongs.
Chick tracts are nothing but disgusting, filthy hate. And anyone who sees any value in them is worth no more than they are.
Look if you want to convert people to christianity Chick tracts are not the way to go. They're horribly bigoted and extremely missinformed or outright lying, they will probably turn more people away from your religion then towards it. Although seeing as that you're the kind of person who reads those things I'm probably talking to deaf ears.
One of the things I wonder about Chick tracts is that he doesn't understand the way it works. If you leave, anonymously, those tracks to anonymous potential converts, the efficiency of the tracts is impossible to be checked. You're not witnessing, you're like giving out fliers.
@ozznova:
I pictured something similar: ChickGirl the videogame!
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Dammit, now I have to play that game. Where's me old Megadrive?
Oh yes, I send SOMEBODY LOVES ME to abortion clinics.
You sick fuck. I hope you do it in the dead of night so that no one ever catches your sorry arse doing it.
I made special trips to the local health department, WIC clinic, homeless health clinic...just to leave tracts.
I'd have more respect for you if you did one thing, just one fucking thing to help those people.
I would suggest using the following against fundie attempts at witnessing:
http://www.normalbobsmith.com/publicity&promotion/pamphlets.html
Hey... I think this woman dropped some outside my apartment last week. It was really nice of her since I was coming home late, there was no toilet roll and I had a mean case of taco shits.
Thanks, Anonymous Poster!
Old Viking said "Why not leave little dabs of dog poo? It would get more attention and gain an equal number of converts."
And, the message is exactly the same, too!
Look if you want to convert people to christianity Chick tracts are not the way to go. They're horribly bigoted and extremely missinformed or outright lying, they will probably turn more people away from your religion then towards it. Although seeing as that you're the kind of person who reads those things I'm probably talking to deaf ears.
Assuming this comment may be directed at me, as a result of my previous post regarding the usefulness of tracts, I agree with you: Chick tracts are teh suck.
I would recommend other kinds of tracts instead. For example, learn how one person changed the world through pot:
www.readmywrites.com/throughpot.pdf
How about you just live your life and leave the rest of us to live ours? Not everyone shares your opinion and we don't want to be lectured, especially not with dross from 'Chick' - and it is most insensitive to send such an utter waste of paper to abortion clinics, shame on you.
Chick tracts are the WORST form of convert anyone... These are pure hatred, intolerance, and craziness.
You should do some talks about Jesus, or helping homeless people, make charity groups, etc... that's the way you really can convince people that not all cristhians are evil fundies.
By the way, the police wanted to talk with you. Something about "Stalking and littering"
Wow. I love how Christians seem to assume that the only reason there are non-Christians is that we have somehow managed to not hear the gospel, something which I am not sure is even possible to avoid.
The other night, while walking into and out of the grocery store, some lady asked me if I would like a Gospel tract. I politely said, "no thanks" so she follows up with "it's about Jesus!" both times! The first time, I was kind of stunned that she would think that maybe I assumed it was some other religion's gospel. lol.
5 minutes later, on the way back out, she asked me again, and when she got to the "It's about Jesus" part, I almost stopped and acted like I had never heard of Jesus, then decided I really didn't want to encourage her insanity.
WTF, people? Do you really think anyone has managed to NOT be aware of your little myths?
You witnessed Jesus, and all you can think to do about it is leave plastic-wrapped bags of shit about?
Tell us what he looked like! (Damn sure not the bearded lady most religious pictures show.)
How did he pronounce his name? (Not the Greek 'Jesus', but the ancient Hebrew His mother called Him.)
Did you ask Him why He was so late coming back?
Now THESE are the important things anybody witnessing Jesus ought to report on.
"Somebody Loves Me" is an awful tract...nobody actually helped the poor kid. They just let him/her die in the alley, after s/he was beaten within an inch of his/her life by his/her drunken father. :'(
At least the kid went to Heaven, but it's still a horrible tract!
So, Jesus hasn't been able to help you overcome your shyness, so you sneak around like a prowler tossing your literature and scurrying away, smugly assuring yourself of a job well done.
I don't know which of you is more pathetic, you or your god!
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