Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 23:51:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Robalini@aol.com
 

A Konformist Special: Smell My Feet

Happy Halloween, folks. And for all you fine folks, here's a little Halloween special.

First, some background on what the hell Halloween is

First up is this little tidbit from Acharya S., our favorite anti-Christian, New Age atheist, giving a excerpt of the paganized beginnings of Halloween.

This is from "The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets" by the marvelous mythologist Barbara Walker. You're gonna like this. See what kind of conspiracies you can come up with the Aryan v. Semite bit. Interesting.

Acharya S.

Halloween

All Souls' or All Hallows' Day (November 1) was the Christian version of Samhain, the Celtic feast of the dead, named for the Aryan Lord of Death, Samana, "the Leveler," or the Grim Reaper, leader of ancestral ghosts. According to the pagan lunar calendar, festivals were celebrated on the "eve" rather than the day. Therefore Halloween or All Hallows' Eve was the original festival, later displaced to the following day. The Irish used to call the holy night the Vigil of Saman. Churchmen described it as a night of magic charms and divinations, reading the future with witches' mirrors and nutshell ashes, ducking for apples in tubs of water (representing soul-symbols in the Cauldron of Regeneration), and other objectionable rites. Even today it is said that a girl who peels an apple before a mirror on Halloween will see the image of her future in the glass. Christian authorities wrote of Halloween, "Many other superstitious ceremonies, the remains of Druidisum, are observed on this holiday, which will never be eradicated while the name of Saman is permitted to remain." The name of the pagan deity remains in the Bible as Samuel, from the Semitic Sammael, the same underworld god.

Of course the original divinations were oracular utterances by the ancestral dead, who came up from their tombs on Halloween, sometimes bringing gifts to the children of their living descendants. In Sicilian Halloween tradition, "the dead relations have become the good fairies of the little ones." Similar customs are observed at Christmas.

In Lithuania, the last European country to accept Christianity, the pagans celebrated the New Year feast at Halloween, sacrificing domestic animals to their god Zimiennik (Samanik; Samana). Their prayer ran, "Accept our burnt sacrifice, O Zimiennik, and kindly partake thereof." If the lord of the underworld accepted the offering on behalf of all the dead, the spirits were satisfied and would refrain from doing harm. If not adequately propitiated, they might descend on the world as vengeful ghosts, led by demons and "witches" (priestesses) who summoned them. The witches and ghosts are still associated with Halloween, together with such soul-symbols as owls, bats and cats.

The pagan idea used to be that crucial joints between the seasons opened cracks in the fabric of space-time, allowing contact between the ghostworld and the mortal one.

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And, now, for a more Christian view of the event.

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SHOULD YOU CARE: Halloween
deva777@dedot.com
From: AC

Thanks for this most timely history. Amazing always that the churches (most) are again the most responsible for defaming the fundamental truths, with their perversion of it, and with their gigantic hypocrisy and cowardice. With this example of so-called Christian practice, is it any wonder anyone can call themselves Christian, or, on the other hand, that most would rather have nothing to do with the faith as represented--by the generic or mainline Christian institution? I cringe when I remember how thoughtlessly I fell into this demonic trap as I raised my own kids. Moreover, I wonder where all the sniveling animal rights folks are when thousands of animal abuses occur in the nation??? In many areas the SPCA will not allow black cats to be adopted for two weeks before Halloween. Addionally, many live stock farmers and especially goat and horse owners (in my rural area too) actually sleep in barns on Halloween night, to prevent their animals from being mutilated and/or "sacrificed" by Satanists, witches and all sorts of ghouls. Someone told me that Klinton is "celebrating" Halloween in Florida. Very befitting for this ghoulish CEO of evil, actually. Santoria (sp?) is popular in Florida, and it is legal to sacrifice animals there. Perhaps his equally infamous comrade in witchcraft will channel Eleanor Roosevelt on that night too. And more will be revealed. AC

>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:45:15 -0500
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>Hi
>I thought you'd like to read the little piece i 'whipped up' for
>Halloween. Here it is:

HALLOWEEN

Halloween is a `religious day,' but not a Christian day. The modern holiday we call Halloween has its' origins in the full moon closest to November 1st, the witches' New Year. It was a time when the spirits were supposed to be at their peak power and revisiting the earth.

The origin of Halloween is the Celtic festival of Samhain, lord of death and evil spirits. The druids worshipped nature and celebrated the new year on October 31st. These practices predate Christianity. They believed that on October 31st, Samhain assembled the spirits of all who had died during the previous year.

These spirits had been confined to inhabit animals' bodies for the past year as punishment for their evil deeds. They were permitted to return to their former homes to visit the living on the eve (Oct.31) of the feast of Samhain.

Druid priests led the people in diabolical worship ceremonies in which horses, cats, black sheep, oxen, human beings and other offerings were rounded up, stuffed into wicker cages and burned to death. This was done to appease Samhain and keep spirits from harming them. The priests would go from house to house asking for fatted calves, black sheep and human beings. Those who gave were promised prosperity and those who refused were cursed and threatened.

It was thought that the wandering spirits would get hungry. If you set out a treat for them they would not curse you. Hence we have the origin of Trick or Treat. Trick or Treat is a reenactment of the druid practices. The candy has replaced animal/human sacrifices and is an appeasement of deceptive spirits. The traditional response to those who did not treat is to have a trick played on them.

This holiday was believed to be a favorable time for telling fortunes concerning marriage, luck, health and death. It was the only day in which the help of the Devil was invoked for such purposes. It was time to placate the supernatural powers controlling the processes of nature.

Some mistakenly believe that Halloween is actually the celebration of All Saints' Day. There is even the expression "All Hallows Eve." Nowhere in church history was here any origin of All Saints Day as a November 1st celebration. In fact, the origin of All Saints Day was celebrated on May 31st.

Through the Middle Ages the customs of the druids had an effect on the celebration of the November 2nd feast of "All Souls Day." The belief was that the souls in Purgatory would appear as willow-wisps, ghosts, toads, witches and the like to persons who had offended them during their lives. Satanic cults celebrate Halloween with black masses and quasi-religious ceremonies in mockery of Christian rites.

Jack-O-Lantern has its origins with pagan practices. The candle lit pumpkin or skull served as a sign to mark homes sympathetic to the satanists and thus deserving of mercy. The older edition of World Book Encyclopedia defines Jack-O-Lantern as an ancient symbol of a damned soul.

Costumes originated with druid death rites. As animals and people (the sacrifices) burned to death, he observers would dress in costumes made of animal skins and heads. They would dance and chant and jump through the flames in hopes of warding off the evil spirits.

The Pilgrims barred celebrating Halloween in America. This ban lasted until 1845. At that time thousands of immigrants flooded into New York. They brought Halloween with them and it spread throughout the country.

To be a Christian today demands strength and consistency. To be a Christian today is to deny much of what the world is telling us what is right and good. To stand on God's Word is to be accused of fanaticism or extremism. One must either resolutely deny, combat and persecute Christianity or one must really live it. We must remember that to be called a Christian is at the same time to be sent as one.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem once said, "You are called Christians. Be careful of that name. Let not our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, be blasphemed on your account."

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And now, batting cleanup, Alex Constantine, with another great Halloween trick, the murder of River Phoenix, and the cultic underground behind it. The following excerpt comes from his now classic underground work "Psychic Dictatorship In The U.S.A.", published by Feral House. He has another book out right now, by the way, courtesy of Feral House again, titled "Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations In America". It'll be reviewed in The Konformist real soon, but rest assured AC hasn't lost his touch.
 
 

FAMILY TIES: THE MEPHISTOPHELIAN WORLD OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD

The fatal speedball seizure of River Phoenix on Halloween night, 1993, coincided in the media with the apocalyptic fire storm in Malibu and the death of Frederico Fellini. In early September, newspapers in London and Buenos Aires headlined a story that directly concerned River Phoenix but, after the initial burst of coverage, was conspicuously absent from the American press - a raid on the Pilar, Argentina compound of the Family of Love, formerly the Children of God sect.

Police confiscated videos and magazines of children engaged in sex acts with adults. Also seized was a book for children, The Life of Little David, a Bible parody and tale of sexual initiation as told by "Sister Sarah." In one home video, naked young girls danced with silk scarves. Some 136 children were taken into protective custody, and 68 adults were detained for interrogation. The London Times reported that the children were "living in compartmented cells and answered questions like automatons. Whenever one of them tried to say something, another would look at him and he would fall silent, terrified." One cult house functioned strictly as a punishment facility, imprisoning some 50 adolescents.

Somos magazine reported on September 13, 1993 that the group's compound in Pilar is situated on "five kilometers of land hidden by high walls, constructed like a fortress off the Pan American highway." When Argentine authorities flew over the estate in a private plane, they discovered three observation posts on the roof." With binoculars, Police Commissioner Hugo Gabutti spotted three rondina units, or armed guards, on the roof. "The operated in a military fashion," Gabutti said, "looked and acted military. The security measures taken by the sect are incredible. They have received military training to protect themselves from outsiders."

Police in Buenos Aries were quickly inundated by "hundreds of telephone calls from the public requesting a special investigation,' according to the daily Clarin. After the raids, The New York Times, Time, Espanol, NBC and CNN all chimed in with prominently-placed features on the Family.

[...] Silvina Cangaro, an interior decorator and former Family member, spoke to Gente, Argentina answer to People, of her recruitment: "When I became a member, I immediately took part in Satanic rites. After I left the group and complained to the police, I received many death threats."

The Times of London reported on September 3 that video tapes seized by police - and broadcast on Argentina's nightly news - depicted "abhorrent Satanistic acts ... in uncensored extracts of the videos after late-night news programs on Wednesday."

David "Moses" Berg, founder of Children of God, opened the door to esoteric religions and promiscuity in the 1970s, when in a letter to disciples he endorsed spiritism, witchcraft and astrology, according to W. Douglas Pritchett, who has compiled a book-length bibliography on the sect. Berg deified himself and proclaimed, "God is a pimp!" He claimed to have had sexual encounters with "goddesses," to have visited hell. Ruth Gordon left the congregation in 1977, summing them up as a "pseudo-Christian" sect that dabbles in the occult. Other former disciples have described Berg as "Satanic," a charge first made by former members in 1973. Devil worshiper or not, he has long been a pugnacious anarchist, declaring "war" in 1968 "on the hypocritical old bottles of the religious system who were lined up on the back seat, and I cast in my lot with outlaws, drug addicts, maniacs, and the younger generation."

The allegations of former sect children were corroborated by the medical evidence - despite widespread and deceptive syndicated news stories like the one released by Reuter on September 5 claiming that "physical examinations carried out on the children turned up no signs of abuse." There followed a lull in the American press, a virtual news black-out.

[...]

The Family fought back with denials that children had been harmed, accusing police of "religious persecution," of "stealing" and "torturing our children with physical examinations," as the Paraguayan branch of the sect maintained his at a demonstration in Montevideo - itself under scrutiny for kidnapping and child abuse. Around the world, angry Children held outraged signs aloft: "ARGENTINA ABUSES CHILDREN LIKE ME!" "THE GESTAPO STOLE OUR CHILDREN!" Gideon Scott, the "house shepherd" in Leicaster, England told reporters: "nothing could be further from the truth than the wild allegations that our members abused or neglected their children. We do not promote or encourage sexual activity between adults and minor."

The group has long claimed to be the target of political oppression, especially when routed by police. Political martyrdom was a fundamental teaching of Moses Burg, the reclusive "prophet" who foretold the coming of the Anti-Christ in the form of a powerful dictator and the ascension of a One World Government. This, of course, is far-right religious programming - the same dogma (gospel?) disseminated by the Birch Society and 700 Club.

The cult's disavowals were echoed by Daniel Mujica, president of Argentina's Superior Council of Catholic Education, who said the allegations were inflated by the press. "The media are trying to make a big thing out of nothing," he said. "The sect isn't doing anything illegal." But his disavowals ran counter to the evidence: investigators in several countries have laid hands on a small library of photographic adventures in pedophilia printed by the Children. Most of the group's more lurid literary efforts were destroyed in 1987, including The Davidito Letter, written by Sara Davidito, a nurse in charge of group child care instruction.

[...]

Berg's disciples insist that the Argentine arrests are the latest instance of authoritarian jackboots tramping on their religious freedoms. Christie Richards, a sect leader in Cleveland, Ohio maintains that "flirty-fishing" is "something we totally stopped." Ostensibly, Berg has proscribed sexual proselytizing, but former Children only shake their heads. Berg himself has, in a "Mo" letter to his congregation, warned that "sexual freedom must never be indulged in or practiced openly in the presence of visitors, strangers or uninitiated relatives or friends."

Julia Berg, his granddaughter, has quit the sect. She now lives in a mountain canyon two hours from Los Angeles, where she looks back with anger on her life in the COG. Women in the community, she says, "including pregnant girls, were ordered to do 'flirty-fishing' at night to bring in new members." She says that she learned by the "love of God" to conceal from outsiders the sexual teachings of Moses Berg.

Political Sugar-Daddies

The Children of God have gathered alms from powerful admirers. Chief Inspector Juan Carlos Rebello, who led police in the COG raids, said "we found evidence suggesting that the Family was funded by influential businessmen worldwide." One Argentine magazine found that some financial supporters of the cult were "well-known and powerful people, and pondered whether Berg's disturbed mental state "is being exploited by a network of powerful people to sexually control an army of children." Julia Berry, the prophet's own kin, has said that it was her "privilege" to be paired sexually with "very important men - men from the government." The Children of God, she said, "always had very powerful friends.... I met presidents from around the world. The children's chorus gave us an image of purity and innocence. It was a seduction."

According to the Washington Post for June 2, 1993, "the Family's leadership follows a policy of lying to outsiders, is steeped in a history of sexual deviance and has even meddled in Third World politics." Edward Probe, a Canadian who once edited Family publications, worked in the Philippines from 1986 to '88. He told the Post that "Family officials openly sympathized with right-wing military officers who tried to overthrow the government of. 'What we were doing was supplying all the moral support.'" One former member from Costa Rica told Argentina's Gente magazine on September 9 about her life inside the cult: "My father used to have certain privileges inside the organization," she said. "He was considered a very important person for public relations. His paternal grandfather, the criminal lawyer, Guillermo Puddle, was a close friend of Chile's military dictator Pinochet, and Juan Carlos, the king of Spain." Pinochet and Carlos became financial and political benefactors of the cult.

The Family, according to David Hubert, a former member, contends that sexual evangelizing was used to curry political favor. "They would target special people," he told the Washington Post, "in the media, lawyers, in the government."

The guiding inner-circle of the Family is known as the Royal Family, and blue-bloods have in fact been sought out by Berg. In the 1970s, the prophet's "official representative" and second-in-command was Barbara Convair, the Italian duchess of Zoagli and Castelvari, rechristened Queen Rachel. Then in her twenties, the "ravishing, long-haired No. 2 leader" was rumored to have been a Berg consort. In 1973 she married Duke Emanuel Convair, a sect member, who invited the Family of Love to his estate, a wine-producing farm near Florence. The Duke graciously donated a vineyard to the cult. Germany's Stern reported in 1977 that a school on the estate trained women in the ancient art of religious prostitution. When Tim asked her about the allegation, she denied it ... but insisted: "There is nothing wrong with a sexy conversion. We believe sex is a human necessity, and in certain cases we may go to bed with someone to show people God's love."

In Bromley, south London, a recruit's millionaire father donated an abandoned factory, adapted as the Family's headquarters in England. And they could not resist the call of the Holy Land, migrated to Egypt, and were expelled in November, 1985. Egyptian law, it seems, forbid the unorthodox sexual and religious practices of the cult. In 1977 the Children of God found a new messiah in Colonel Mummer Khaddafi, who offered them sanctuary from police investigations in California and New York. Louis Lefkowitz, the attorney general of New York, had charged them with kidnapping, brainwashing, imprisonment, enslavement, prostitution, incest and rape. But the U.S. Justice Department unexpectedly dropped the case, concluding, "'brainwashing' and 'mind control' do not constitute violations of federal law.... We have also concluded that the possibility of drafting effective federal criminal legislation in this area is unlikely." The New York attorney general's fraud division also lost interest in the case. "When it came time to prosecuting the group," reported the Los Angeles Times, then Atty. Gun. Lefkowitz sidestepped the issue with the claim that the Children "were protected by the First Amendment - a baffling rationale that later aroused suspicion the report was issued mainly to placate influential parents who had lost children to the sect. Lefkowitz, now retired, says he doesn't recall the matter."

The Justice Department probe hardly amounted to a bloody inquisition, but the Children cried religious persecution and fled the country. They left behind some nagging questions, foremost among them: Who murdered one of the Children in 1976, the body discovered with crushed internal organs at a medieval Belgium fortress? And who killed Berg's son, found in the same condition in Switzerland a few years earlier? Berg accused unnamed "enemies" of the Children for the murders. His critics blamed the sect. The public statements of some of Berg's followers fed their suspicions. In Canada, the Children declared on a national network that they were capable of lies, theft, murder, anything if so ordered by Berg. In 1972 a COG defector told NBC that she had been trained to commit criminal acts, including murder. In Libya, Colonel Khaddafi was enamored with the cult.

He provided them sanctuary, counsel, and even penned a song, addressed to "all industrial countries," performed at Children of God songfests around the world:

Do as I do.
I pray to God.
I'm very happy
Because I found the road
With Allah, Allah, Allah[...]

The Children rechristened the budding psalmist "Godhafi." Moses Berg enthused in New Nation News, a sect newsletter: "There has not been another worldly political leader in modern times as this young prophet of the seemingly impossible. There has hardly been such a godly world political leader since the days of his own prophet Mohammed ... Jesus." Berg portrayed Khaddafi - now a deity - as "the savior who will ignite the young and rescue them from those twin forces of evil, godless Communism and American materialism."

Berg's politics were shared by messiah Khaddafi. Muommar Khaddafi was a product of the Libyan secret service, a branch of government assembled by Adolph Eichmann, Otto Skorzeny, Heinrich Muller and other engineers of the Final Solution who, like Berg, enjoyed the protection of totalitarian Middle Eastern despots. (Besides the Children of God, Khaddafi was also the patron of the infamous Paladins, a coterie of Nazi mercenaries from West Germany. Founded by Colonel Skorzeny, Hitler's commando chief, and the CIA, the Paladin group was responsible for a 1973 airport bombing in Rome that claimed thirty-two lives. They have linked up with death squads in Latin America and terrorists in Europe, South Africa and elsewhere.)

But the Libyan leader's fascination with the Children of God quite possibly ran through religion and politics to unconventional sex. His personal life is rarely discussed. He is said to be sexually eccentric, another trait he shares with Moses Berg.

Berg and his "prophet of the impossible" also found common ground in violent opposition to Israel. Reclusive, eccentric Moses David held a peculiar set of political beliefs for a demigod. One of his commentaries insisted that a small group of international Jews lurk behind a worldwide conspiracy. Berg assailed Jews again in a 1982 "Mo letter," and "their stooges, the Negroes ... the curses of the world," the source "of everything that's evil." Berg claimed that his hatred of Jews and blacks sprang from a higher authority - "I'm a racist because GOD is!" he exulted in one of his delirious "Mo" letters.

In 1978 the COG changed its name to the Family of Love (and so continued to operate in Argentina after the Children were banned). By this time they boasted some 250,000 coverts in 60 countries. The sect currently estimates that its ranks number about 300,000.

In the United States the political pull of the sect extended to the Bush administration. A chorale of Family children kicked off a Christmas show in 1992 for Barbara Bush in the East Room of the White House, for which they received certificates of appreciation signed by President Bush. The sect also sang for Bush after he toured the ravages of Hurricane Andrew in south Florida. (It wasn't the first time Bush's name arose in connection with a child prostitution cult. At the 1988 national Republican convention in New Orleans, Larry King of Omaha - a ranking GOP figure and convicted credit union rip-off artist - sang the National Anthem. In 1990, Nebraska state senator Schmit set out to investigate King and his circle of political operatives and business tycoons, alleged to have operated a national child prostitution network that catered to wealthy patrons. Shortly thereafter Schmit received an anonymous phone call warning him off.)

The Family's political clout tends to put a damper on judicial investigations. Julia Berg recalls that adults in the Buenos Aries chapter "talked very openly about sex in front of children." At the age of 13, she alleges she was forced into a sexual relationship with a local pastor, and after leaving the Children attempted to press for his prosecution. But the judicial system, she says, flatly ignored her. After a police raid in 1989, Berry requested that a court-appointed physician examine her. The judge complied, But the doctor refused, explaining that he didn't want her "traumatized" by the examination - an ordeal, she says, incomparable to the trauma of molestation. "The doctor wouldn't accept my word that I wanted the examination." Family officials like to point out that "not once have we been found guilty of any kind of child abuse." This is true even in cases backed by solid evidence. The suggestion is that they are clean, but another interpretation is that strings are pulled by well-heeled patrons to stifle public disclosure.

Police came away from the 1989 raid with cocaine, pornographic video tapes and childrens' books with condoms adhering to the pages. No Family members were prosecuted. Likewise, investigations in Brazil and Spain also fell apart. In May 1992 police in Australia swept into six Family communes, removing 142 youngsters. A key witness for the prosecution recanted his testimony and charges were suspended. Another case in Melbourne awaits trial. In June 1993 French authorities raided 12 of the sect's homes, but the court ultimately returned 40 children to their parents. Another raid in Spain also unraveled. Likewise, the September '93 raids in Argentina led nowhere. In December it was determined that a federal judge had no jurisdiction the case, and the sex abuse charges were dropped.

The Family is most assuredly not suffering religious persecution for their admittedly "controversial sexual beliefs," as the cult leadership often claims. On the contrary, if the group was continually harried by police - as were, say, the Black Panthers - they would be unable to boast that "our members have always been completely exonerated by authorities," to quote Family spokesman Phil Edwards, writing from a sect haunt on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. in response one magazine article critical of the cult.
 

"Who Killed River Phoenix?"

The fatal overdose of River Phoenix on Halloween night leaves hanging a host of questions concerning his death. Why is it, for instance, that three days later medical examiners announced that autopsy tests were inconclusive - but ruled out foul play. If the cause of death was unknown, how could the coroner possibly dismiss the possibility of murder? Toxicology tests revealed that the morphine levels of the cocaine and heroin ingested by Phoenix were respectively lethal. The day after he overdosed, the question reverberated on Hollywood streets: "Who killed River Phoenix?"

The conclusion that Phoenix died of an accidental overdose seems premature. No one knows how the narcotics were administered. No needle marks were found. The identity of his supplier is known. He is not some shadow melting back into narco-obscurity. Five witnesses, according to unconfirmed reports, accompanied Phoenix to a West Hollywood apartment at 10:40 p.m., on October 30, before departing for the Viper Room. One homosexual Los Angeles tabloid reported that the drug dealer who gave Phoenix the fatal dose "has been seen back in action at the club." If so, why wasn't he so much as questioned by police?

Media interest in the Family was eroded by false reports that Argentine prosecutors had been hamstrung by a lack of medical evidence. In fact, the death of River Phoenix coincided with investigations of the Family spreading across Latin America. The last thing the cult needed was a popular junkie film star shattering the news vacuum in the U.S. media by expanding, in some Hollywood fanzine, on his sexual initiation in a cult with notorious international political connections.

In fact, River Phoenix had a reputation for talking too much. In the press, the Phoenix family has distanced itself from Berg's flock, emphasizing their separation from the Children of God. "We were flower children," John Phoenix (River's father, who refuses to tell reporters his true name) told People magazine in September, 1987: "We were full of faith and loved everybody." John Phoenix was so deeply rooted in the cult that he was named "Archbishop of Venezuela" by the group. Rainbow Phoenix, River's sister, told Life in August, 1987 that she debuted as a performer at South American shopping plazas. "We used to sing and hand out pamphlets," she said. "But after two years in Venezuela, the family wanted out of the cult." Arlene Phoenix, River's mother, complained, 'the guy running it got crazy. He sought to attract rich disciples through sex. No way.'"

The veneer of bohemian innocence was shattered in 1991 when, in Details magazine, River recalled his childhood in the cult. He admitted in this interview that he had intercourse at age four and sex with other children until the age of 10.

River Phoenix violated the cult's stricture of secrecy by discussing his early sexuality with reporters. Two years later, on All Hallow's Eve, at the most critical period in the Family's history, he was poisoned with a drug overdose. Had he lived, River Phoenix could have proven to be a dangerous liability to the cult, confirming reports of sexual abuse and child prostitution circulating throughout South America, but largely snubbed by the domestic press. Moses Berg's Family sleeps with powerful political allies.

Did one of them have reason to silence River Phoenix?

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I'm sure everyone saw the Xfiles premiere, but did anyone watch the Halloween Millennium? It was all about resurrection of the dead. Wasn't last week's show about resurrection too? Hmm, it seems as if Chris Carter is quite interested in that subject.

If one looks at the scary things associated with Halloween in our culture -- Frankenstein monster, zombies, ghouls, vampires etc. -- one sees the common theme of "life beyond the grave". These things are scary because they imply that God is not in control of life, death, and beyond. What is the promise of Jesus Christ anyway? Those washed in His blood, filled with His spirit, will be resurrected in incorruptible flesh, and will live with Him forever. The resurrection of the dead and the Rapture of the faithful are promises Jesus Christ says He will keep. Halloween and its scary fun motifs cast doubt on this promise. Can the dead indeed be raised? Don't hope for it because the dead will only be raised as monsters, corrupting ghouls, or undead vampires.

A typical Halloween-y scenario is this: during Halloween, a fall holiday, on the full moon, the dead rise corrupted and decaying to wreak havoc etc. -- this is the anti-rapture. Not coincidentally the true Rapture occurs during a fall holiday, during a full moon, where the dead are raised incorruptible to live with Jesus. Check out our tribulation timeline, our study on the fall festival of Tabernacles and the rapture, and our article on why we believe there is no pre-tribulation rapture.

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