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You've probably seen one or more of Jack T. Chick's comic book-like tracts. They have titles such as Are Roman Catholics Christian?, The Death Cookie, and Why is Mary Crying? And they're full of wild, false, and downright malicious charges against the Roman Catholic Church and its teachings.
Read them, and you step into a nightmarish world of shadow and intrigue, a world of ...more
Read them, and you step into a nightmarish world of shadow and intrigue, a world of ...more
Paperback, 99 pages
Published
2008
by Catholic Answers
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A short but enjoyable read for Jack Chick anti-fans who understood that his anti-Catholic tracts contained more animus than fact, but lacked the time and motivation to research the inconsistencies. Fortunately, Jimmy Akins was kind enough to do the heavy lifting for us. He doesn’t discuss every mistake that appears in Chick tracts and comics, which is why the book isn’t 10,000 pages long. But Akins provides an entertaining overview of Chick’s anti-Catholic themes and how they conflict with actua
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Great book. As always with Jimmy Akin, it's thoroughly researched, and calmly and charitably expressed. In addition, the book is a fun topic, not technical and it's a quick read. Great choice for teens just getting going with apologetics. My son loved it!
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Jimmy Akin (b. 1965) was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith. Eventually, he was compelled in conscience to enter the Catholic Chu
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