One of the most common terms I hear nowadays is "hater."
What is a hater?
Some say that any time you don't agree or
you don't let someone have his or her way,
you are a hater.
Others say that telling people about Christ
makes you a hater.
So what is a hater?
One definition of a hater by an honest atheist
was so well-said, that both Jack and I
agreed with it.
Would you like to hear my perspective on love
in a hate-filled world?
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications
Pen Jillette is an interesting comedian / magician,
and an avowed atheist.
Over 7 years ago, Penn Jillette held the camera
up to his own face and shared his thoughts
about proselytizing -- telling other people about your faith.
This is what he said.
"I've always said that I don't respect people
who don't proselytize.
I don't respect that at all.
If you believe that there's a heaven and a hell,
and people could be going to hell or not getting eternal life,
or whatever, and you think that, well,
it's not really worth telling them this
because it would make it socially awkward --
and atheists who think that people shouldn't proselytize,
"Just leave me alone; keep your religion to yourself"--
how much do you have to hate somebody
to not proselytize?
How much do you have to hate somebody
to believe that everlasting life is possible
and not tell them that?
"I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt,
that a truck was coming at you, and you didn't believe it,
that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point
where I tackle you.
And this is more important than that."
You can see it yourself on YouTube.
Well, I can tell you that Penn Jillette respects Tim Berends.
Tim talks to him about Christ any chance he gets.
But you know, people accused Jack Chick
of being a hater!
Of course, you know I'm going to say,
"You don't know Jack!" and recommend they
watch the video series or get the book.
But Listen to these words, penned by Jack
and published in 1978.
Two people are talking.
"If your house was on fire, you and your wife and kids
were sleeping, and I drove by
and saw it burning and I didn't wake you up
because I knew you'd be uptight, what would you think of me?"
"You mean we all got burned up because you didn't warn us?"
"That's right."
"Man, I'd hate you.
I'd curse you forever!!
I'd never forgive you!
You'd be the worst kind of murderer!"
"Then listen good, Duke!
Your house is on fire!
You're going to hell on a greased pole
and Satan is laughing his head off!"
That's what Jack wrote 40 years ago, in 1977.
That's in the Chick tract, The Sissy
So who's the real hater?
The one who warns you, so you can escape hell, and
make it through judgment by the Almighty God,
be spared from the lake of fire for all eternity?
Or the one who pats you on the back and calls you "brother"
and lets you be punished for all eternity,
because he or she refuses to tell you how you can be saved
and spared all that?
That's why I wrote the article that Jack decided
to draw as a tract, Who's the Real Hater?
If you look at page 10, I actually posed for that shot
of Jonah to suggest to Jack
how I thought Jonah should look.
How could Jack (or I) be a hater, if we wanted people saved
and WITH US in heaven?
Haters typically want people away from them, not with them.
They had to give up eventually on trying to make Jack a racist,
when his co-artist since 1973, and who now works with me,
is Fred Carter, and Jack's wife was Asian.
So who are the real haters?
Real haters try to keep you from
handing out gospel tracts.
Real haters try to stop you from
warning others to escape hell.
Real haters don't want other sinners
joining them with the gifts of forgiveness,
the Holy Ghost, and eternal life with God the Father
as their adoptive Father.
We love them so much that we want them to be with us,
forgiven of sins, new creatures,
adopted by God and granted eternal life with Him!
So when a person claiming to be a reporter
told Jack's and my secretary that we had been put on a hate list...
Well, we know who are the real haters.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.
I don't know about you, but I have a whole bunch of
love literature I want to hand out.