God himself couldn't sink this ship!

This YouTube video (8:15 long) is a mashup of a Jack Chick evangelistic scare tract and the Academy Award-winning film Titanic. Turn that over in your mind for a minute.

Anyway, see if you can figure where these folks are coming from. I can't. It's actually a pretty effective presentation of the cost of unbelief, in a scary fundamentalist sort of way. But on the other hand, the Titanic's orchestra plays Metallica's Enter Sandman instead of Nearer My God to Thee. Viewers seem generally confused, judging from the comments. Some are mad because the clip makes fun of Jesus. Others are mad because it makes fun of Titanic their favorite movie. Still others are mad because it makes light of a disaster. Yea, verily, others are mad because it wasn't funny or because the heaven/hell part either scared them or brought them down.

All in all, an interesting take on that mesmerizing and maddening cultural phenomenon, the Jack Chick tract.

UPDATE: Watch eight more short "Chick flicks" here.

(via Boing Boing again)


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