Anyway, in the spirit of the holiday, I offer two of the worst offenders on the nutcase list:
First, Carmen's "Witches Invitation" video. It is 1980s-era tacky and carries a hint of the Satanism urban legends that were rampant at that time. Plus, it also features Carmen - who probably ranks as one of the least talented and cliche musicians of the era. He was to Christian music what David Hasselhoff was to television. The "witch" is hilarious too in this video, looks like such an Anton LeVay clone...and gotta have the Dungeons and Dragons games thrown in there too.
Next, my friends, you probably have seen this at least once in your life. Some people like to give it out to trick or treaters and its distributed far and wide around this time of the year. I have to bring up Halloween comics by the one and only Jack Chick!
Jack is famous for his factually-challenged scare-me-into-salvation comics, that come really close to being offensive - such as his one that claims that the Holocaust was a Jesuit conspiracy. An early edition of his comic "Dark Dungeons" claimed that C.S. Lewis and Tolkien wrote occult books, ROFL!
Anyway, here's the link: "http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0058/0058_01.asp"
The "Satanist" killing the cat is a hoot.
While I'm ranting, please let me recommend Snopes to you. Before you ever repeat a story or forward an email with juicy gossip, like "Hotel California" is a Satanic song, KISS stands for "Kids/Knights in Satanic Service," Proctor and Gamble is ran by the Satanic Church, xxxxx Christian singer/celebrity is really a Satanist....and blah, blah, blah...please visit Snopes. You'll find about 90% of the stuff is a load o'crap.
I'm done now. There's a neighborhood of cats waiting for me ;).
1 comment:
The whole Jack Chick thing really awes me. I just don't understand how people can buy into that. It's like on the same level of absurdity as Aliens beaming mind control into my head.
I'm pretty sure that I saw one on homosexuality that was one of the most degrading things to any human I've ever seen. It's so much worse than every terrible "Religious Right" stereotype that I could even try to attempt to parody. It's almost campy in the sense that I'd almost think he didn't take himself serious, but he does.
Anyways, while you look for your cat, I think I'm going to go draw a comic about a man who's plank in his eye gets chainsawed in half by a pumpkin-headed demon. (This very well be myself that I talk about, not Jack Chick. Well, okay. It's both of us.)
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