When I was a Jesus Freak Movement "fellow traveler" circa 1970, we got a lot of laughs from reading
Chick Pubs tracts (years later, I found a lot of them left in the stalls of a restroom and all I could think was that they were too small to do much good if you ran out of toilet paper (think traditional use of old Sears & Roebuck catalogs)) and various books depicting the End Times.
One of the End Times scenarios dealing with that "army of horsemen" adding that they would come from the East, had hundreds of millions of Red Chinese soldiers on
motorcycles bearing down on Armageddon. And that wasn't even the most ridiculous part, but it's been nearly half a century.
BTW, a good friend of Jack Chick and his source for materials on Satanism was
John Todd, a nutcase who claimed to be an ex-Satanist, etc, caused an uproar in the fundamentalist community in the late 70's. Reportedly, while everybody else exposed Todd as a fraud, Jack Chick remained loyal.
With the Jesus Freaks, we also read a lot of their proselytizing training materials (cartoons depicting street-proselytizing conversations with non-believers, which provided trainees with scripts to use). Proselytizing creationists still use those same kinds of scripts a half century later; it can be so much fun to watch them as I go off-script and they have no idea what's happening or how to respond (one such case was an attempt to sell me on Pascal's Wager as "
afterlife insurance".
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