This was highlighted to me over Facebook via another blogger and I was stunned when I first read it. After that, I could feel nothing except shame and disgust.
As a baptised believer, I find this tract absolutely disgusting and shameless, to say the least. It is people like this who put the religion to shame, not to mention turn non-Christians off from even listening about God.
We were told time and time again from the Bible to love our neighbours, non-Christians or Christians. The judging should always be left up to God. God decides if our faith in him is good enough and over time, I have come to believe that whatever the religion is, the final say should lie within Him NOT with man. We have no right to denounce other faiths and people of other races because if we take some time out from our extreme thoughts, we would realize that we all come from God.
This tract is shocking simply because it targets children – if adults who have all the wisdom and capability of learning more about their faiths choose to believe such literature, then fine – but children…children who can be naive and innocent about the world around. Children who are trusting and gullible…who don’t know better.
FYI, I used to read Chick tracts and I even stashed a stack of them somewhere but I never recalled them being this “offensive” – or maybe I was young then. See what I mean by children being naive/gullible/etc?
It is at times like this that I wish God would just open the heavens and say in a huge big voice…
WHEN ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING TO STOP DOING THINGS ON MY BEHALF? I AM THE ALMIGHTY…I DON’T NEED YOU TO AVENGE ME. I DON’T NEED YOU TO JUDGE FOR ME. YOU *WILL NEVER BE* GOD. Oh and please stop using my name for your own personal greed and vengeance.
Sigh. I know what you mean. Being a Christian myself. I feel ashamed. I despise it when we, supposed Christians, look down on others and their religion. Sigh. Sometimes, I feel even my mom is guilty of this. She treats my sister’s bf much MUCH better than my FH coz he (sister’s bf)is of the same religion as we are. It is something that she blurted out inadvertently once. Not just a fragment of my imagination.
Why do people do this? And she seems oblivious to the fact that people of *our* own religion arent perfect human beings.
Sigh.
Hey.. I was given a couple of such tracts to read waaay back before I became a Christian. And you are right, I don’t recall them being this offensive and/or judgemental either.