{"id":11071,"date":"2013-11-07T08:44:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2013-11-07T08:44:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T14:44:30","slug":"whos-the-real-hater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2013\/11\/whos-the-real-hater\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s The Real Hater?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The only thing Christians today like talking about more than Jesus is haters.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s completely ridiculous, but it\u2019s also kinda genius if you think about.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter how valid someone else\u2019s criticism is or how incapable you are of mounting a defense, just call that person a hater and you win!<\/p>\n<p>Well, if seems Jack Chick wants in on the hater action (or maybe wanted in, I have no idea how old this thing is).<\/p>\n<p>You know Jack, right?<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the lord of the tracts. He didn\u2019t invent them, but he refined them into an art form, a tacky and often bigoted, hateful, and sometimes even racist art form, but still art\u2026more or less.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, apparently Jack got tired of being called a hater himself and decided to turn the tables in the best way he knew how.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chick.com\/reading\/tracts\/1925\/1925_01.asp\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">With a tract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/11\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-07-at-9.30.24-AM.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11075\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-11-07 at 9.30.24 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/11\/Screen-Shot-2013-11-07-at-9.30.24-AM.png\" width=\"472\" height=\"282\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/11\/1925_13.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11076\" alt=\"1925_13\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/11\/1925_13.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/11\/1925_14.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11077\" alt=\"1925_14\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/11\/1925_14.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/11\/1925_19.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11078\" alt=\"1925_19\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/11\/1925_19.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/11\/1925_21.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11079\" alt=\"1925_21\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2013\/11\/1925_21.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"240\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, just to recap because I\u2019m a bit confused by that last part.<\/p>\n<p>If you hate people you\u2019ll be kind to them and call them \u201cbrother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But if you love people, it\u2019s \u201cBurn in hell, you dirty rats!\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe that\u2019s what we\u2019re saying if we don\u2019t give out tracts?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know, but either way, given that last picture on the right I think it\u2019s pretty clear Jack is no fan of the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing Christians today like talking about more than Jesus is haters. 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