actually, the first Chick books were not anti-Catholic, anti-gay, anti-everyone else... they were basically little books about living nice Christian lives, being charitable and faithful, etc... I had the idea that they were aimed at people who were already Christian, telling them to stay the course, etc. I ran into these when I was a teen; someone brought a bunch of them to the county fair, and I collected a fair number of them. I ran into them years later, and found that Chick had gone around the bend and was hammering the Catholics, Jews, Muslims, etc....