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Jack Thomas Chick (born April 13, 1924) is an American publisher, writer, and comic book artist of evangelical fundamentalist Christian tracts and comic books. His comics have been described by Robert Ito in the ''Los Angeles'' magazine as "equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing". Chick's company, Chick Publications, says it has sold over 750 million tracts,〔Chick publications website header.〕 comics tracts and comic books, videos, books, and posters designed to promote Evangelical Protestantism from a Christian fundamentalist perspective or point of view. Many of these are controversial, as they accuse Roman Catholics, Freemasons, Muslims, Jews, and many other groups of murder and conspiracies, while Chick maintains his views are simply politically incorrect.〔"Over the years, Jack Chick has written some stories that were so hot, that touched such politically incorrect issues, that often people were afraid to pass them out on the streets." (Hot Topics ) at chick.com〕 Chick's views have been spread worldwide, mostly through the tracts and now online. They have been translated into more than 100 languages.〔 As evidenced from his writings and publications, Chick is an Independent Baptist who follows a premillennial dispensationalist view of the end times. He is a believer in the King James Only movement, which posits that every English translation of the Bible more recent than 1611 promotes heresy or immorality.〔http://www.chick.com/bc/2012/kjv_onlyism.asp〕 ==Biography== Chick was born in Boyle Heights, California. His family later moved to Alhambra, where Chick was active in the high school drama club.〔 〕 Chick's official biography notes that he was not religious in high school and was in fact avoided by Christian students, who believed "he was the last guy on earth who would ever accept Jesus Christ".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Chick Publications )〕 After his graduation, he continued his drama education at the Pasadena Playhouse School of Theater on a two-year scholarship.〔〔 In February 1943, Chick was drafted as a private into the U.S. Army. He served for three years in the Pacific theater of World War II, serving in New Guinea, Australia, the Philippines, and Japan.〔 Chick credits his time overseas for inspiring him to translate his tracts into many different languages and said he has "a special burden for missions and missionaries".〔 After the war, he returned to the Pasadena Playhouse and met his wife while working on a production there. Lola Lynn Priddle (1926–1998), a Canadian immigrant, came from a very religious family, and Chick's official biography describes her as "instrumental in his salvation".〔〔Ancestry.com, ''Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905–1957'' (on-line ), Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.〕 Priddle and her parents introduced Chick to the Charles E. Fuller radio show, the ''Old Fashioned Revival Hour'', and Chick relates that he was converted while listening to an episode of this show.〔 They married in 1948 and had one child, Carol, who died in 2001. In February 1998, Lola Lynn died, and Chick remarried.〔〔〔 In a 2005 issue of his company's newsletter, ''Battle Cry'', Chick reported that he had suffered a life-threatening health emergency at some point in the previous two years, between 2003 and 2005. He gave further details of the circumstances: "My flu turned into pneumonia, my blood sugar dropped to 20 (I am diabetic)... I was going into a coma. My wife called 911 and while they were on the way, I had a heart attack. A day or so later I had to undergo a triple bypass." Very little is known about Chick; he has given only one known professional interview since 1975. The lack of available public information about him has created some speculation that he was a pen name for unnamed authors.〔 Several audio cassettes of his preaching distributed to his subscribers purport to contain his voice. While he has never released a photo of himself for publication, purported photos of Chick have been published by others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack T. Chick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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