Fun With Jack Chick As We Dunk "The Death Cookie:

warning - you are about to descend into the crazy anti-Catholic world of Jack Chick.
Reader discretion is advised.

Have you ever left mass on a beautiful bright Sunday morning and arriving at you car finding one of those cute little tracts from the poison pen of Mr. Jack Chick?  If you never have had the opportunity to review one of his little comic books you are really missing some of the best anti-Catholic pamphlets ever made.  Jack is totally anti-Catholic and never lets the truth get in his way to put the Church down. His pen is so evil and so radically nasty that even some Protestant book stores refuse to handle his merchandise.  But I degrees.  One of the most poison of his poison tracts is a little beauty with the name "The Death Cookie."  As you can imagine it is his view of the Eucharist.  We are going to go over this piece of ill-informed propaganda almost one panel at a time.  The piece can be found on his website so if you want to read it yourself, please google Jack Chick and you will easily find his website with great ease.   Under the copyright law's fair use provision I can make use of others materials for educational purposes.  All of the illustrations except the header of this post do not belong to me and I make use of them for criticism and educational purposes only. 

The first panel is setting the stage for what follows. A man is wondering how he can control the population. The devil says he knows how to do it.  So far pretty innocuous, it just shows an evil man doing what he does best and the devil assisting him. 

Now we are starting to descend into the world as Jack Chick sees it. We are told that this man is to pray a lot, look mysterious and "burn lots of candles."  This man is to become the pope.  Okay Jack, let's start here. The Pope is not an invention of man. The Church on earth must have a leader.  Jesus knew he was not going to be on earth forever so he appointed a leader. This leader was Peter.  He said to Peter that he was the rock on which Jesus was going to build His church.  So Peter was the first leader and when he died the Church appointed his successor. So it is not the devil that created the Papacy as Jack Chick would have you believe, but it was Jesus.

 Here Jack heaps ridicule on the Eucharist which is the point of this tract.  The Eucharist is the very Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ. It would seem that Jack is not very familiar with the Gospels.  We read about Jesus instituting the Sacrament of the Eucharist at the Last Supper. He said to His apostles that this bread was His Body, the wine was His Blood. He commanded His apostles to "Do this in memory of me."  The word "this" refers to the action he had just taken.  This was to be the new rite, this was to be how Jesus would remain with us until the end of time.  In the Gospel of John, Jesus says that we must eat His Body and drink His Blood if we are to have life within us.  The word eat refers to food, in the Greek it literally is translated as "chew" or "gnaw."  But Jack is blissfully unaware of this it appears. 

Now we descend even further into coco land as Jack explains that the Eucharist comes from ancient Egypt where they worshiped the sun and used wafers to worship the sun.  Well, maybe that is what the Egyptians did, I don't care what they did. Jack forgets that the Hebrews celebrated Passover using unleavened bread and wine.  The Eucharist is the new Passover and when Jesus said from the Cross, "It is finished!" He was stating that the Passover that began at the Last Supper had now ended on Calvary.  Jesus had drank the fourth cup of wine, the traditional last cup of the Passover feast when it was held up to Him on the Cross. 

Now Jack equates the prayers of consecration with magic. It amazes me because if you were to ask Jack how God created the world he would say in seven days out of nothing. Jack's God is powerful enough to create the world out of nothing, but unfortunately his God is too weak to change bread and wine into His Body and Blood as Jesus said He did in the Bible. The last picture in this series is hilarious.  He says that if the people read the Bible they will see that they have been lied to by the Church.  Well, Jack, hardly.  Again, read the Gospels, read St. Paul it is all there. Jesus was not kidding about the Eucharist.  When followers began to turn away He did not call them back, he did not say that he was only using a figure of speech. He rather confirmed what he said again.  Someone should point this out to Jack.  No, people, read the Bible, it will lead you to the Eucharist, not away from it. 

Now Jack gets into territory he is more familiar with. He says Catholics worship statues, crucifixes, Mary, the Pope and that priests are other forms of Jesus.  Then he explains what IHS means that he seems to think is imprinted on all hosts.  First of all it is not imprinted on all hosts but if it was it would mean "Jesus Christ." I would invite Jack to let Jesus into his heart some day.  About the pope which he says is a "type of Jesus" well that is complete and utter nonsense.  If the pope were another Jesus, to be worshiped, then it follows that he could not commit a sin, being God and all.  But the Holy Father goes to confession every week.  If he did not sin why would he confess?  So the pope being a type of Jesus is another thing dredged up from somewhere by Jack, but it has no basis in fact. 

Suddenly Jack shows that the peoples eyes are opened and they revolt against the Pope and the death cookie.  Jack says that worshiping bread as if it were God is idolatry and you know what I agree with Jack.  Worshiping my loaf of Wonder Bread would be very sinful but worshiping the Son of God, Jesus Christ in the Eucharist is right, is just, and is required and it is approved by God the Son otherwise why would have He given us this great gift.  Jack crosses the line into blasphemy when he calls the Eucharist demonic. I pity his poor soul and I pity the thousands of souls he has drawn away from Christ. 

We come to the end of this devilish piece of propaganda and Jack ends by calling the Bride of Christ, the Church, names such as the whore of Babylon and then he tells us to pray the sinners prayer.  Jack, if everything is in the Bible, can you tell me where it says to say the sinners prayer or even where I can read the sinners prayer, which book is it in Jack?  

The sad thing is that there are people out there that believe the tripe that Jack is selling as fillet. Catholics CAN be drawn away from the Church and from the Eucharist if they are not solidly grounded in their faith.  On his website, Jack says that he does not hate Catholics.  I believe him.  But I don't think he really knows what a Catholic is. When Luther in sinful pride broke the unity of the Church, the unity that Christ prayed that we would maintain, he started a process that will never end. One church became two.  Then when a disagreement came up in the Lutheran Church, they split, two churches became three, three became six, six became twelve, and so on.  So when Jack Chick and his gang of cartoonists try to slip one over on you, simply remember that Jesus prayed for unity. The Church that was split from and is the original Church founded by Christ is the Catholic Church.  Accept no imitation.  All denominations have some of the truth, some have more than others, but the Catholic Church is the only Church guaranteed to be protected by the Holy Spirit. 

I will be happy to answer any questions about the Catholic faith and invite you to submit them to michaeljspoula@outlook,com  

No question is too simple or to complex.  I will tackle them all. 

God Bless all of you and may His light shine brightly in your life today.