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Revision as of 01:51, 18 March 2008
John Todd a/k/a Lance Collins was a 1970s sensation on the Christian church circuit claiming to have been born into a family of witches who groomed him for eventual placement on a high council of Druids known as the Illuminati. His tall tales were used as source material by Jack Chick for several of his tracts and comic books on the occult.
He eventually started making wild claims that many large fundamentalist Christian ministries were funded by and secretly promoting the agenda of the Illuminati, at which point he was investigated by Christianity Today [1] and Cornerstone magazines [2] and found to be an outright fraud.
Jack Chick's comic book Spellbound features Todd appearing under his claimed "witch name", Lance Collins. Spellbound claims the entire rock music industry is controlled by witches, who cast spells on the master tapes to cause evil spirits to follow all the recordings thus produced, resulting in kids becoming demon possessed from listening to rock & roll. The comic concludes with a good Christian record and book burning, during which a young born-again convert shouts "WOW! I feel F R E E!" upon seeing her heavy metal albums going up in smoke.
If you must, there is a website by a fan who continues to believe in his claims, with a lot of his taped speeches archived in mp3 format for your edification here.
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/todd00.htm
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20060419024813/http://www.cornerstonemag.com/pages/show_page.asp?437
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