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space The two-for-one account of Dr. Rebecca Brown and "Elaine" plays out like every B movie you've ever seen. Satanic nurses out for blood...a marriage to the Devil...snoozy Midwestern towns run by witches...a hospital showdown between the forces of light and darkness... The "Elaine" hoax was wholly facilitated by our old friend Jack Chick, the... Continue Reading →
space So far, most of the ex-witches and former Satanists in this series have either faded into obscurity or died. This is not the case with Bill Schnoebelen. He was one of the very first "Ex-Men" to dominate the Christian conspiracy lecture circuit, beginning in 1984, and he is still with us. He might be... Continue Reading →
Hans and I will be on vacation for the next week. The Prodigal Witch series will continue when we return from our wanderings.
I'm still working on the Bill Schnoebelen post, so in the meantime take a gander at this site, maintained by Texan Ed Chiarini: wellaware1.com. It is, quite simply, one of the strangest and least convincing conspiracy sites I have ever seen. Mr. Chiarini believes that many of the people we see in the news, including... Continue Reading →
A Christian lady wrote to me after the post about the late John Todd went up, pointing me to an Answers.com page that states Raymond Buckland held a doctorate in anthropology (from King's College, Cambridge), negating my statement that Buckland was not an anthropologist. "You will be held accountable for not writting what you know... Continue Reading →
space In the '80s, a thirtysomething Texan named Tom Sanguinet made an extremely minor niche for himself as a former Wiccan high priest who converted to Christianity. His Witness for Christ Center Outreach was devoted to smearing and misrepresenting Wicca and Wiccans and educating Christians about the "evil" pagan origins of Halloween and Easter celebrations.... Continue Reading →
Once again, my apologies for the extended absence. There's been a lot going on lately: Federal elections, family visits, hippie death threats, bin Laden conspiracy theories. You know, the usual.
The late Irene Park is unique among the Christian converts in this series because she claimed to have been a witch for four decades, over twice as long as Doreen Irvine, before becoming a Christian minister. Her story is nearly identical to Irvine's in most key aspects, but it is far more bizarre and disturbing.... Continue Reading →
Hershel Smith Hershel Smith emerged in Southern California during the early '70s, just like Mike Warnke and John Todd. His Christian testimony was different from theirs. He wasn't lured into Satanist at college like Warnke, and he wasn't born into it like Todd. Rather, he was a Christian who became a Satanist as a child.... Continue Reading →
space John Todd as a character in the Jack Chick comic Spellbound? continued from Part I The Big Time In August 1973, Todd married Sharon Garver. He was preaching and performing faith healings on the road, having been fired from the Christian coffeehouse for allegedly hitting on teenage girls. This was the year that Todd... Continue Reading →
Swallowing The Camel 