Okay, within that context I can understand your point. Though, and I mean this with the best of intentions, Chick tracts themselves put a very specific interpretation on the message of Christ. The anti-Catholic tracts are a strong example of this.

In my own experience with the tracts, very little of the message of Christ's love came through in those, with the emphasis being more on judgement and conversion through fear. Perhaps the need to explicate the positive isn't needed on the target audience, who already accepts the message and feels awash in Christ's love, but coming from the outside it is not the best face to be putting forward.

I was raised Christian but have long since recanted, though I remain an armchair scholar of theological writing and thought. If the Chick tracts brought some beneficial realisation to you, that is good. But I have to say that, in my experience, they tended more to amplifying folk's opinions that devout Christians were synonymous with ignorance, fear, bigotry, and enclave mentality. On that count they are detrimental works.

I know I have broken the cardinal rule of not discussing religion, but hopefully I have confined myself to the very particular topic at hand, and that I have not caused offense. I realise that my own experience of the world is just that and nothing more, and that all people have their own unique understanding of life which is just as valid as my own.