Finals Week Winter 2005 Part 3
Today was the day for my last final exam, for US History. We were shown our grades, and had a choice of taking it to change the grade, or keeping the grade. I was satisfied with my grade, so I kept it
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This was designed as an "anti-Chick Tract," in that rather than promoting an idea over another, it promoted a more tolerant view. It also showed Ms. Henn as a religious zealout akin to Jack T. Chick to show how ridiculous his portrayal of Ms. Henn(see "Apes, Lies, and Ms. Henn" and "The Birds and the Bees").
The others were also primarily spoofs of his portrayal of people and events. The first as a spoof of Chick Christians(that's my term for people between conservative Christians and people such as Westboro "God Hates Fags" Baptist Church)'s fairly weak arguments somehow winning debates, or at least being superior to the unrealistically atrocious arguments of their foes(see "Big Daddy" for a student out-debating a college professor on evolution); in it, Miss Crawford and Bob Williams's divorced Muslim convert sister win their arguments. The second dealt with situations; in most Bible series tracts, the situation in which the people find themselves somehow relates to a Biblical story, and after they convert, their problems go away. In this one, the story, while relevant, has virtually no point, and when the non-Christians make their(less than enthusiastic) conversion, their situation worsens.
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