"Jesus freak is a term arising from the late 1960s and early 1970s counterculture and is used as a pejorative for those involved in the Jesus movement. As Tom Wolfe illustrates in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the term \"freak\" with a preceding qualifier was a strictly neutral term and described any counterculture member with a specific interest in a given subject; hence \"acid freak\" \"Jesus freak.\" The term \"freak\" was in common enough currency that Hunter S."@en .