WI: Catholic Jack Chick?

What if Jack Chick happened to be a Catholic? Would the tone of his tracts change or would they be the same thing only with Catholic beliefs now?
 
What if Jack Chick happened to be a Catholic? Would the tone of his tracts change or would they be the same thing only with Catholic beliefs now?

Pretty much the second, I guess, if you want his personality recognizably intact. I suppose he'd have a lesser audience.
 
His morality would probably be slightly less reprensible, but he would still be absolute bat-shit crazy scum.

He might be worse. If Catholic Jack is a hardcore Anti-Vatican II person he might reject the legitimacy of the pope, and head off into the wilderness of Gibsonian cults, where he's right but every other Catholic is wrong.

Or he may remain ostensibly loyal to the Vicar of Christ yet be crazy for anti-Semitism, holocaust denial, support for abortion-clinic bombers, the IRA, etc. (How big a role does Roe v. Wade play in OTL's 'Chick tracks'?)

There is a Rock Chopper tradition of crazy polemics, I suppose. We think of Father Coughlin as having been purely political, but his stuff was firmly based in an extreme version of Catholicism.

It occurs to me that the popular image of Protestant Chick is of a guy whose hatred for the 'Whore of Babylon' outweighs all other considerations. Jack as we know him today isn't exactly a conventional FoxNews nutter, now is he?
 

Jake Vektor

Banned
Chick himself would probably be less receptive to the craziness he embraced OTL.
As for Chick's OTL pal Alberto Rivera, he wouldn't have anyone to promote his conspiracy theories and would remain an obscure nutcase.
 

Michael Busch

Excommunication.

Concur. The closest analogy I can think of would be Leonard Feeney, who had a history of anti-semitism and was excommunicated for claiming that no non-Catholic can be saved.

However, I'm not sure how this would actually work. It approaches ASB, given Chick's long-standing habit of blaming Rome for all of the world's problems (and some things that most people don't consider problems).
 
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Nietzsche

Banned
There is one thing I like about the centralized, monolithic nature of the Catholic Church, and that is their ability to more often than not weed out the truly insane. Granted, they aren't as good on some other, touchier subjects, but this is neither the time nor the place.

In short, kudos to the Catholic Church for being able to effectively smite those within their organization who are needlessly and dangerously hateful.
 
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