Milton was a staunch Christian. It was interpretations of Paradise Lost a hundred years or so after it was written by the likes of William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Byron and Shelley that were the formation of Romantic Satanism, which in turn inspired the modern atheistic, compassionate Satanism of today.
There was one of these tracts from the 70s on evolution, where a christian student authoritatively defeats the stuffy science teacher, with what is demonstrably cherry-picked crap taken out of context.
At the end, the triumphant, humble-yet-firm student asks a by-now deflated science teacher how is it that protons in the nucleus, with positive charge, don't fly apart, the teacher shakes his head as he mumbles "I don't know, I don't know..."
I guess the student was implying that little angels kept the protons in place? Or that there are some things that are unknowable?
As if Quantum Chromodynamics, the Strong Force (and Strong Nuclear Force, slight difference there) and The Standard Model didn't already exist, as if quarks hadn't been detected beyond a shadow of a doubt.
In his profound and cynical dishonesty, seems like Chick in his tract counted on information on the subject not yet being widely available at the time.
Chew on that one for a minute: Chick counted on the scientific illiteracy of the tract reader. Fanatical zealot that he was.
So, hell has education, the best music, strippers, drugs, all the cool people, orgies etc. Heaven has boring ignorant church people who find hetero sexuality more important then the love for their own child. So why would I want to go to heaven instead of hell? Christians aren't presenting a strong case here. When you're making shit up, why not create a heaven which is awesome instead? With our Holy Noodle, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, heaven consists of beer volcanoes and strippers. Hell consists of beer volcanoes and strippers too, but the beer is passed its expired date and the strippers have STD's. This is how you promote your fictional afterlife, like it's better then the alternative. I'd rather go to a place with hot strippers and cocain instead of a heaven full of unvaccinated babies and child molesters.
Indeed, I've read a lot of them! I just try to not give the website more views lately.
Also finding them physically out in the wild is extremely rare, it was the only time I've seen more than like...one. And that one was attached to my front door XD
I had no idea what these were. Then I realized I had taken some weird bookets from this one weird store. On the back they say CHICK. So I guess I have some chick tracts now. One is called "Love the Jewish People" and the other "This was your life!"
Always on the lookout for Lisa in which the family doctor lets a dad know that he gave his own daughter herpes but it’s okay because he helps the dad find Jesus and stop being a rapist. That one got pulled pretty quickly.
My favorite one is the Christian student against the professor. "Gluons aren't real because you cannot see them. Actually it is Jesus holding atoms together."
The only one I ever got was right after the Soviet Union fell but while Gorbachev was still president and it was called "IS THE RUSSIAN BEAR READY TO STRIKE?" and it claimed that the fall of the Soviet Union was a ruse and Gorbachev was about to launch a nuclear strike because his name was actually pronounced GOGRBACHEV like Gog and Magog in the Bible.