Damn, I just handed out condoms. I'd better step it up.

Anyone seen any decent atheist tracts? Google is mostly turning up crap.

A friend of mine in Texas gave out a bunch of candy yesterday, but had to shut her porch light off sooner than she expected. Not because of parents from several miles away dropping kids off in her neighborhood -- she's used to that by now -- but because teenagers and even adults were stopping by for free goodies. What kind of societal misfit knocks on strange doors asking for candy when they should be out in a bar somewhere?

I can see where Chick tracts would be useful in certain circumstances.

/I had only three trick-or-treaters last night, so lots of leftover candy for me!

HAW! HAW!

This guy is a grade A douche, no doubt. But, it's his choice to hand out whatever he wants to people who comes asking for things at his house. Next year it will be the choice of the kids to 1) avoid his house and 2) egg and TP the everloving shiat out of it. This is how free market Halloween should work.

The ironic part is that Halloween is a Christian holiday.

Jake Havechek: HAW! HAW!

Having read most of Jack Chicks tracts, I see what you did there.

Lorelle: Since the 1970s, hasn't every American kid received at least one Chick tract in his/her Halloween bag??

/remembers getting a few
//would have preferred popcorn balls

I was born in '71. I didn't become aware of the things until the web proliferated - probably about 1997 or so (though I do know after the fact I saw the D&D one back around college). Heck, I even grew up in the Bible Belt (TN) and never got one.

Are those things for real or the ultimate in trolling fundies? I love reading them because they make me giggle - and I'm Christian.

I'm convinced these Baptists are farking idiots.

Halloween has nothing to do with the devil or anything like that.

It's the eve of All Saints Day which is a generic holiday to honor saints who don't have their own days. At some point, Halloween was conflated with Samhain and random druidic and pagan shiat.

D) Hall's Mentho-lyptus cough drops.



/trick!

AbbeySomeone: Damn, I just handed out condoms. I'd better step it up.

Whatever happened to traditional treats like fried chicken embryos and six packs of beer?

rostit: rudemix: This guy is a grade A douche, no doubt. But, it's his choice to hand out whatever he wants to people who comes asking for things at his house. Next year it will be the choice of the kids to 1) avoid his house and 2) egg and TP the everloving shiat out of it. This is how free market Halloween should work.

That is pretty closeminded. You are saying our first amendment can only be used by people you agree with?

The First Amendment stops the government from muzzling free speech. It doesn't say you can say any stupid thing that pops into your head, and suffer no consequences for it.

Lorelle: Since the 1970s, hasn't every American kid received at least one Chick tract in his/her Halloween bag??

/remembers getting a few
//would have preferred popcorn balls

Clearly I've been missing out.

/But then again, I've only gone trick-or-treating twice, maybe.
//Also I grew up in a heavily Jewish neighborhood.

Arkanaut: Lorelle: Since the 1970s, hasn't every American kid received at least one Chick tract in his/her Halloween bag??

/remembers getting a few
//would have preferred popcorn balls

Clearly I've been missing out.

/But then again, I've only gone trick-or-treating twice, maybe.
//Also I grew up in a heavily Jewish neighborhood.

So, did you get matzo balls for Halloween?

"Will there been an afterlife, I wonder? Choirs of angels? Or a fiery pit? One unlearns these falsehoods over time, but the child who learnt to fear hell is never really gone. To tell the truth, I think I had enough of afterlives as it is - this one has been pretty purgatorial. Almost fifty years floating in supercooled jelly like some medical specimen, thoughts creeping like rats through cramped silicon corridors of machines trapped behind video screens and camera systems. Never sleeping, never resting, never ceasing to think about the world no longer belong to. No, if this is a taste of the afterlife, I think simple oblivion will do nicely."

Mugato: Twigz221: The ironic part is that Halloween is a Christian holiday.

When are people going to stop saying that? It's not.

Halloween (a contraction of All Hallows' Evening), also known by Hallowe'en or All Hallow's Eve, is an annual holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night preceding All Saints Day. Much like Day of the Dead celebrations, the holiday has origins in Christianity, as well as festivals of harvest time and festivals honouring the dead, particularly old Celtic and Druid ones

Bathia_Mapes: And, surprise, surprise...it's a Chick tract (new window).

There used to always be a pile of these in the bus station when I was a kid. I woudl always steal them and sell them to the younger kids for a penny each.

I was doing the lord's work, but not for free.

Andromeda: Whenever I read one of those I always conclude that if there was a God and He was the Chick tract version I'm pretty ok with going to hell instead of the alternative of hanging out with Him and His followers for eternity.

Thisity.

I understand people believe that kind of crap... I really do. What boggles my mind is that people can believe that kind of crap, believe they are correct, and believe it is a *positive* thing and should be forced on others. Fark that.

"Try to be a good person" is great.

"God says I should try to be a good person," is, I guess, acceptable. I don't need an invisible observer in the sky to behave myself, but maybe some do.

"God will kill your children unless you believe the same things I do" is psychotic.

Sybarite: I think it would be fun to throw in some Cthulhu Tracts along with the candy. Maybe I was a weird kid, but I would have loved it.


WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?

ecmoRandomNumbers: Why do we let these miserable jackholes exist?

Because we are not China.

The three must sacrifice for the good of the others. A small price to pay for candy.

FTA: "He says the pamphlet was inappropriate for small children, and that his church doesn't preach such "scare tactics.""

Douche bag, you obviously do preach such scare tactics, as evidenced by your use of scare tactics that you are apologizing for. Are you suggesting that you don't tell people that there is a hell and that they'll go to it if they don't do what Jesus wants them to? No I didn't think so. See those are scare tactics.

Why do religious people and republicans think they all have the Jedi mind trick. Worse still why does it seem to work on so many people?

rostit: That is pretty closeminded. You are saying our first amendment can only be used by people you agree with?

The First Amendment does not insulate you from the results of your speech from private citizens. If you act like a douche, expect to be treated like one.

They should egg his house and tape his car.

E) Soakings from the garden hose! Light's off you bastards, that means don't come knocking.

/and get off my lawn.