Weird Tract Number 44: "Rise of Satanism" by Terry Watkins

Troy Davis writes:

When it comes to lunacy in tract form, Terry Watkins is the gift that keeps on giving. The Museum recently featured his tract "Warning: 666 Is Coming!"  Apparently Watkins didn't receive the memo that the 1980's satanic ritual abuse scare was a combination of mass hysteria and lucrative grifting (e.g., faux reformed satanic priest Mike Warnke who was mentioned in my discussion of Logos International). Watkins is so behind the times that he even quoted Geraldo Rivera, who produced several sensationalistic television shows in the '80s on Satanism but has since acknowledged that his '80s take on Satanism was wildly inaccurate (one of the people on Rivera's specials was con artist, defrocked physician, and former Chick Publications author Rebecca Brown). 

Watkins has a list of supposed satanic symbols. Included is the peace symbol (the peace symbol as "broken cross" trope was addressed in my review of the tract "Peace"). Also included are the anarchy symbol and, shades of Stephen King, the semordnilap "redrum."  I parodied lists of satanic symbols used by fundies like Watkins in my Chick tract parodies.

There.

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