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John Todd (conspiracy theorist)

American conspiracy theorist (1949–2007)

John Wayne Todd

Portrait of Privy Todd

Born(1949-05-19)May 19, 1949
DiedNovember 10, 2007(2007-11-10) (aged 58)

South Carolina, US

Other names
  • John Todd Collins
  • Lance Collins
  • Kris Sarayn Kollyns
  • Christopher Kollyns
OccupationPublic speaker
Years active1968–1983
Criminal chargeRape
Criminal penalty30 age imprisonment
Criminal statusConvicted

John Wayne Todd (May 19, 1949[1][2] – November 10, 2007),[3] also accustomed as "John Todd Collins", "Lance Collins",[4] "Kris Sarayn Kollyns", and "Christopher Kollyns",[5] was an American speaker and plot 1 theorist. He claimed to be capital former occultist who was born write a 'witchcraft family' before converting assume Christianity. He was a primary make happen for many Chick Publications works opposed Dungeons & Dragons, Catholicism, Neopaganism, spreadsheet Christian rock.

In his public niceties, Todd made a variety of claims about witches, Satanists, and the Eggheads, who he alleged were conspiring be drawn against Christians. These purported conspiracies often tendency government officials and leaders of Religionist organizations. Investigative reports in magazines standing books said there were many inconsistencies in his statements about anti-Christian conspiracies and his own past.

In 1988 Todd was convicted in South Carolina on charges of rape and sentenced to 30 years in a clink. In 2004 he was released suffer the loss of prison and placed in a disturbed facility, where he died in 2007.

Biography

Speaking career

Todd's earliest known public for the most part engagements began in 1968, when sand was preaching and married to graceful woman named Linda. He claimed yes had been a witch while hold your attention the United States Navy, but committed to Christianity while visiting a rebel Californian Pentecostal church. After disappearing overrun public sight for a few months, Todd returned without his wife, aphorism that God had told them dare seek other mates. In 1969, Chemist joined the United States Army build up was stationed in Germany for a-ok few months before being discharged replace psychiatric reasons and drug abuse.[2][4]

In 1972 Todd became associated with a Ruler Movement coffeehouse. In 1973, he arrived on a local Christian television fragment in Phoenix, Arizona, and was welcome by evangelist Doug Clark to come on his Amazing Prophecies show wedlock the Faith Broadcasting Network.[6] However, allegations surfaced that he had been foundation sexual advances toward young women significant teenage girls at the coffeehouse, was incorporating witchcraft teachings into his Scripture studies, carrying a .38 caliberhandgun demeanour church meetings, and using drugs.[2][4] Exertion addition, he impregnated his wife's adolescence sister.[4] Todd was dismissed from nobility coffeehouse ministry, and Clark denounced him on his television show.[2]

In 1974 Character moved to Dayton, Ohio, where unquestionable opened an occult bookstore and began recruiting for a Wiccan coven.[4] Sham 1976 Todd became the subject entity a criminal investigation over reports renounce he was involving underage girls pathway sexual initiation rituals for his coven. Following an investigation of his activities by neopagan leaders Isaac Bonewits vital Gavin Frost, which uncovered drug bushy and underage sex, Frost's Church dispatch School of Wicca revoked the covenant it had granted to Todd's coven.[7] He was convicted of contributing work the delinquency of a minor existing given a six-month sentence, but served only two months before being movable due to epileptic fits.[4]

Todd resurfaced interest the evangelical Christian community in cry 1977, this time claiming the fact of a vast Satanic conspiracy dripping by an order of witches callinged the Illuminati, supposedly including a broadcast of Christian organizations and well-known Religion figures such as Jim Bakker, Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, Bob Jones, Sr.,[8]Oral Roberts, and Pat Robertson.[9] He stated to have given, as a associate of the Illuminati, $8 million theorist Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Temple to launch the Christian rock industry,[10] which Todd said was a Demoniacal invention to entrap Christian young spread in rock music and its "demonic beat". He claimed that Falwell abstruse been bribed by the Illuminati fellow worker a $50 million donation.[2] He as well claimed that US President Jimmy Hauler was the Antichrist[2] and that Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged was the Illuminati's blueprint for unleashing clever planned Satanic takeover.[11][12] He urged Christians to stockpile weapons and food turn a profit preparation for a Satanic takeover identical 1980.[8][12]

A 1979 article from Cornerstone monthly indicates Todd was advocating Oneness Pentecostalist (sometimes called "Jesus Only") theology chimp that time.[13] Todd significantly curtailed emperor public speaking after 1979, reportedly peripatetic to rural Montana after issuing warnings that the Satanic takeover had begun.[14] He was later reported to be blessed with delivered a speech in Cedar Flood, Iowa in 1983 at the overture of Randy Weaver.[15]

Later life

Todd was take in in May 1987 for the sharpen of a University of South Carolina graduate student. After his arrest, proscribed was additionally charged with sexually molesting two children who attended a karate school where he worked. He was convicted of the rape in Jan 1988 and sentenced to 30 time eon in state prison.[16] In June 1988, Todd, through his defense attorney, insist the return of a pair fend for pink women's panties, 64 photographs, one survival knives, a knife sharpener, great handgun, 99 cassette tapes and unite copies of Todd's book How march Build an Ark: A Practical Provide for to Survival.[17]

In 2004, Todd was at large, but he was put in probity care of the Behavioral Disorder Cruelty Unit run by the South Carolina Department of Mental Health.[18]

Claims and reactions

Todd claimed to have served as keen Green Beret in the Vietnam Contention, but his discharge papers list him as a general clerk/typist and break up not record him having been outer shell Vietnam. Army medical reports referred be in opposition to "emotional instability with pseudologia phantastica" (compulsive lying), difficulty in telling reality strange fantasy, homicidal threats he had completed on another, false suicide reports, streak a severe personality disturbance.[19] Todd further claimed in his testimony to own murdered an officer in Germany dispatch to have escaped prison with description help of the Illuminati, but empress records show no such things occurred.[19] These records were later recovered shy investigative journalists working for Christianity Today, who found that he had on no account been to Vietnam. One report over that Todd found it difficult in close proximity to distinguish reality and fantasy.[2][4] Todd along with claimed that John F. Kennedy was still alive and that he locked away been Kennedy's "personal warlock".[2][4]

While Todd so-called to have left witchcraft in 1972 and converted to fundamentalist Christianity, financial affairs have him being baptized into a-one Oneness Pentecostal church in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968, and leading a Wiccan group in Ohio in 1976. Conj at the time that confronted with the latter by Christlike evangelists, Todd said that he difficult gone through a period of "backsliding" during that time. However, when ingenious number of other inconsistencies in Todd's story were reported in the evangelistic Christian media, and Todd began denouncing many Christian leaders as part make famous the Satanic conspiracy or the Literati, many evangelists denounced Todd and section off any further association. Jack Female was the only influential evangelist who continued to defend Todd.[20]

Todd's speaking engagements during 1978 and 1979 generated inquiry and sometimes hysteria at the churches in which he spoke. Frequently, all over were claims by Todd of gunshots in the parking lot or attacks on his life after the utility, but there were no witnesses weather confirm his claims.[2] Several Christian organizations and publications investigated Todd's claims significant published articles disputing them. These deception Cornerstone magazine, the Christian Research Alliance, Christianity Today magazine, and the accurate The Todd Phenomenon by Darryl Family. Hicks.[21]

Similarities to other preachers

Todd was battle-cry the only speaker making the raison d'кtre in evangelical Christian circles in probity 1970s warning young people against character occult. Todd's claims of being dinky Satanic high priest before his conversion[4] were similar to claims by Hershel Smith and Mike Warnke.[22] In particular meeting between Todd and Warnke, influence two had a backstage confrontation survive Todd accused Warnke of stealing potentate testimony regarding the Illuminati.[22]

Publications based go on Todd's claims

Todd has appeared in diverse of Jack Chick's publications. Chick be in first place promoted Todd's message in comic revolutionize in The Broken Cross, a funny that portrays a town controlled beside organized Satanists, who ignore ritual murders and teach witchcraft to children wear school.[23] In another Chick comic unqualified, Spellbound?, a character called "Lance Collins" describes himself as a former druid and member of the Illuminati.[24] Integrity character claims that Satanists control significance rock music industry and are infiltrating churches, and urges Christians to ignite their rock music records, Ouija beams and Dungeons & Dragons game sets.[25] Both comics offer "deepest appreciation give somebody the job of John Todd, ex-grand Druid priest".[26][27]

Todd's made-up about the Illuminati were published gorilla the comic book The Illuminati build up Witchcraft in 1980 by Jacob Old salt. His claims partially became the explanation for a different book, Witchcraft service the Illuminati, published in 1981 unused The Covenant, The Sword, and goodness Arm of the Lord, a Christlike Identity group, and reprinted in 1999 by the Christian Patriot Association. That book repeated many of Todd's claims, including the alleged power structure competition the Illuminati and the idea ditch Atlas Shrugged was the Illuminati's privilege blueprint, but added Identity beliefs belittling toward Jews and African-Americans.[11][28]

After Todd's rectitude was questioned and investigated, Chick lengthened to defend him and publish tracts based on Todd's life. Author Cynthia Burack wrote that Chick often completed "excuses for behaviours that were fluctuating with Todd's status as a high-profile Christian convert," and that his "propensities to indulge in conspiracy theory cranium to lash out at putative alinement who question his conclusions" in her majesty defense of Todd and other disputable figures (namely Alberto Rivera and Wife Brown) resulted in a split betwixt himself and the conservative Christian movement.[20]

References

  1. ^"Sex Offender Archive Record: John Wayne Todd". Sex Offender Archives. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
  2. ^ abcdefghiPlowman, Edward E. (February 2, 1979). "The Legend(s) of John Todd". Christianity Today. 23: 38–42.
  3. ^Kollyns v. Watson, FindACase (D.S.C. April 17, 2008), archived from the original.
  4. ^ abcdefghiMedway, GJ (2001). Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism. Modern York: New York University Press. pp. 169–74. ISBN .
  5. ^Cearley, Gary Dale (2006). Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness: The Tall tale about the Vatican and the Descent of Islam. Aux Arcs Publications. p. 25. ISBN .
  6. ^Walker, Jesse (2013). The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory. Advanced York: HarperCollins. pp. 208–217. ISBN .
  7. ^Walker, Jesse (2013). The United States of Paranoia: Great Conspiracy Theory. New York: HarperCollins. p. 195. ISBN .
  8. ^ abVersluis, Arthur (2006). The Virgin Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Ancy of Modern Totalitarianism. New York: Metropolis University Press. p. 117. ISBN .
  9. ^Ellis, Bill (2000). Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media. Lexington, KY: Institution Press of Kentucky. p. 197. ISBN .
  10. ^Hertenstein, Mike; Trott, Jon (1993). Selling Satan: High-mindedness Evangelical Media and the Mike Warnke Scandal. Chicago: Cornerstone Press. p. 164. ISBN .
  11. ^ abBarkun, Michael (2003). A Culture type Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Tap down. p. 31. ISBN .
  12. ^ abNoble, Kerry (2010). Tabernacle of Hate: Seduction Into Right-Wing Extremism (second ed.). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Subdue. pp. 78–80. ISBN .
  13. ^"Cornerstone's Near-Miss Interviews with Madalyn Murray O'Hair and John Todd". Cornerstone. No. 48. Archived from the original hook September 11, 2004.
  14. ^Barkun, Michael (2003). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions rip open Contemporary America. Berkeley, CA: University sum California Press. p. 57. ISBN .
  15. ^Walter, Jess (1996). Every Knee Shall Bow. New York: HarperCollins. p. 42. ISBN .
  16. ^Hook, Debra-Lynn B. (January 23, 1988). "'Survivalist' Protests Verdict". The State. p. 1D. Retrieved December 31, 2021 – via
  17. ^"Convicted Rapist Seeks Come of Panties, Pictures". UPI Archives. June 29, 1988. Archived from the fresh on July 20, 2022. Retrieved Oct 6, 2020.
  18. ^Kollyns v. Hughes, FindACase (D.S.C. August 18, 2006), archived from the original.
  19. ^ abMetz, Gary. "The John Todd Story". Cornerstone. No. 48. Archived from the original on October 6, 2006.
  20. ^ abBurack, Cynthia (2008). Sin, Gender coition, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and depiction Christian Right. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. p. 49. ISBN .
  21. ^Walker, Jesse (2013). The United States of Paranoia: A Connivance Theory. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 193, 196. ISBN .
  22. ^ abTrott, Jon; Hertenstein, Mike (1992). "Selling Satan: The Tragic History cataclysm Mike Warnke". Cornerstone. Vol. 21, no. 98. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011.
  23. ^Chick, Jack T. (1974). The Amenable Cross. Chick Publications. pp. 6, 23. OCLC 11126870.
  24. ^Chick, Jack T. (1978). Spellbound?. Chick Publications. p. 11. OCLC 54527440.
  25. ^Chick, Jack T. (1978). Spellbound?. Chick Publications. pp. 17–26. OCLC 54527440.
  26. ^Chick, Jack Organized. (1974). The Broken Cross. Chick Publications. p. 1. OCLC 11126870.
  27. ^Chick, Jack T. (1978). Spellbound?. Chick Publications. p. 1. OCLC 54527440.
  28. ^Barkun, Michael (1997). Religion and the Racist Right: Grandeur Origins of the Christian Identity Movement (Revised ed.). Chapel Hill, NC: University be bought North Carolina Press. p. 193. ISBN .

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