Scarier than clowns: Chick tracts

[galateus]

And now, a holiday classic, showing the true face of that eeevil heathen holiday called Halloween, or as Chick tracts call it...

Satan's birthday!

Comments

[nezchan]

I would say the "If Caesar and Tacius can be trusted..." bit is rather critical here, particularly the former.

As I recall, the Christians were pretty nasty in Iceland, and despite my maternal heritage I have no love for the antics of St. Patrick.

[halialkers]

Well, at one point the idea of Carthaginian child-sacrifice was poo-pooed but it turns out that of all the things for the Romans to be right on........yeah.

Personally I think it's worth noting also that Christianity centers on a human sacrifice and its most sacred rite is theologically speaking cannibalism in the first place, so somehow the only difference is that bread and wine is supposed to substitute for it. Where 2,000 years later I end up thinking "LOL NO DO NOT WANT"

Christian conversion was always a nasty and bloody business, yes. Islam tended to convert by merchant trade, but Christianity pretty much always did so at either the tip of the sword or barrel of the gun.