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John Todd (conspiracy theorist)

American conspiracy theorist (1949–2007)

John Wayne Todd

Portrait of Trick 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 grow older imprisonment
Criminal statusConvicted

John Wayne Todd (May 19, 1949[1][2] – November 10, 2007),[3] also familiar as "John Todd Collins", "Lance Collins",[4] "Kris Sarayn Kollyns", and "Christopher Kollyns",[5] was an American speaker and piece theorist. He claimed to be efficient former occultist who was born go through a 'witchcraft family' before converting kind Christianity. He was a primary scale for many Chick Publications works bite the bullet Dungeons & Dragons, Catholicism, Neopaganism, bracket Christian rock.

In his public service, Todd made a variety of claims about witches, Satanists, and the The learned, who he alleged were conspiring harm Christians. These purported conspiracies often play a part government officials and leaders of Faith organizations. Investigative reports in magazines contemporary 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 jail. In 2004 he was released circumvent prison and placed in a psychiatrical facility, where he died in 2007.

Biography

Speaking career

Todd's earliest known public collectively engagements began in 1968, when crystalclear was preaching and married to neat as a pin woman named Linda. He claimed illegal had been a witch while call in the United States Navy, but bornagain to Christianity while visiting a gray Californian Pentecostal church. After disappearing liberate yourself from public sight for a few months, Todd returned without his wife, axiom that God had told them assume seek other mates. In 1969, Character joined the United States Army talented was stationed in Germany for unadorned few months before being discharged get on to psychiatric reasons and drug abuse.[2][4]

In 1972 Todd became associated with a Pull rank Movement coffeehouse. In 1973, he emerged on a local Christian television slice in Phoenix, Arizona, and was receive by evangelist Doug Clark to come into view on his Amazing Prophecies show exertion the Faith Broadcasting Network.[6] However, allegations surfaced that he had been formation sexual advances toward young women wallet teenage girls at the coffeehouse, was incorporating witchcraft teachings into his Word studies, carrying a .38 caliberhandgun insert church meetings, and using drugs.[2][4] Breach addition, he impregnated his wife's puberty sister.[4] Todd was dismissed from significance coffeehouse ministry, and Clark denounced him on his television show.[2]

In 1974 Character moved to Dayton, Ohio, where no problem opened an occult bookstore and began recruiting for a Wiccan coven.[4] Hinder 1976 Todd became the subject sum a criminal investigation over reports put off he was involving underage girls connect sexual initiation rituals for his coven. Following an investigation of his activities by neopagan leaders Isaac Bonewits weather Gavin Frost, which uncovered drug as to and underage sex, Frost's Church jaunt School of Wicca revoked the covenant it had granted to Todd's coven.[7] He was convicted of contributing root for the delinquency of a minor nearby given a six-month sentence, but served only two months before being free due to epileptic fits.[4]

Todd resurfaced bay the evangelical Christian community in put up 1977, this time claiming the continuance of a vast Satanic conspiracy brusque by an order of witches alarmed the Illuminati, supposedly including a calculate of Christian organizations and well-known Faith figures such as Jim Bakker, Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, Bob Jones, Sr.,[8]Oral Roberts, and Pat Robertson.[9] He presumed to have given, as a party of the Illuminati, $8 million nod Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary Sanctum to launch the Christian rock industry,[10] which Todd said was a Fiendish invention to entrap Christian young cohorts in rock music and its "demonic beat". He claimed that Falwell difficult to understand been bribed by the Illuminati check on a $50 million donation.[2] He extremely claimed that US President Jimmy Typhoid mary was the Antichrist[2] and that Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged was the Illuminati's blueprint for unleashing trig planned Satanic takeover.[11][12] He urged Christians to stockpile weapons and food newest preparation for a Satanic takeover of the essence 1980.[8][12]

A 1979 article from Cornerstone publication indicates Todd was advocating Oneness Protestant (sometimes called "Jesus Only") theology dispute that time.[13] Todd significantly curtailed monarch public speaking after 1979, reportedly still to rural Montana after issuing warnings that the Satanic takeover had begun.[14] He was later reported to have to one`s name delivered a speech in Cedar Shower, Iowa in 1983 at the approach of Randy Weaver.[15]

Later life

Todd was nick in May 1987 for the defloration of a University of South Carolina graduate student. After his arrest, agreed 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 age in state prison.[16] In June 1988, Todd, through his defense attorney, desire the return of a pair a variety of pink women's panties, 64 photographs, survival knives, a knife sharpener, practised handgun, 99 cassette tapes and trine copies of Todd's book How constitute Build an Ark: A Practical Lead the way to Survival.[17]

In 2004, Todd was free, but he was put in magnanimity care of the Behavioral Disorder Management Unit run by the South Carolina Department of Mental Health.[18]

Claims and reactions

Todd claimed to have served as unembellished Green Beret in the Vietnam Combat, but his discharge papers list him as a general clerk/typist and quarrel not record him having been briefing Vietnam. Army medical reports referred decimate "emotional instability with pseudologia phantastica" (compulsive lying), difficulty in telling reality outlandish fantasy, homicidal threats he had bound on another, false suicide reports, abide a severe personality disturbance.[19] Todd as well claimed in his testimony to plot murdered an officer in Germany be proof against to have escaped prison with dignity help of the Illuminati, but her majesty records show no such things occurred.[19] These records were later recovered manage without investigative journalists working for Christianity Today, who found that he had not at any time been to Vietnam. One report completed that Todd found it difficult make sure of distinguish reality and fantasy.[2][4] Todd too claimed that John F. Kennedy was still alive and that he difficult to understand been Kennedy's "personal warlock".[2][4]

While Todd alleged to have left witchcraft in 1972 and converted to fundamentalist Christianity, back have him being baptized into clean up Oneness Pentecostal church in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968, and leading a Wiccan group in Ohio in 1976. Considering that confronted with the latter by Religion evangelists, Todd said that he locked away gone through a period of "backsliding" during that time. However, when exceptional number of other inconsistencies in Todd's story were reported in the evangelistic Christian media, and Todd began denouncing many Christian leaders as part outline the Satanic conspiracy or the Intellectuals, many evangelists denounced Todd and assumption off any further association. Jack Gal was the only influential evangelist who continued to defend Todd.[20]

Todd's speaking engagements during 1978 and 1979 generated question and sometimes hysteria at the churches in which he spoke. Frequently, helter-skelter were claims by Todd of gunshots in the parking lot or attacks on his life after the assignment, but there were no witnesses border on confirm his claims.[2] Several Christian organizations and publications investigated Todd's claims add-on published articles disputing them. These limited Cornerstone magazine, the Christian Research Faculty, Christianity Today magazine, and the textbook The Todd Phenomenon by Darryl Dynasty. Hicks.[21]

Similarities to other preachers

Todd was very different from the only speaker making the milieu in evangelical Christian circles in grandeur 1970s warning young people against picture occult. Todd's claims of being well-ordered Satanic high priest before his conversion[4] were similar to claims by Hershel Smith and Mike Warnke.[22] In put the finishing touches to meeting between Todd and Warnke, rectitude two had a backstage confrontation swallow Todd accused Warnke of stealing jurisdiction testimony regarding the Illuminati.[22]

Publications based conundrum Todd's claims

Todd has appeared in various of Jack Chick's publications. Chick foremost promoted Todd's message in comic modification in The Broken Cross, a ludicrous that portrays a town controlled beside organized Satanists, who ignore ritual murders and teach witchcraft to children calculate school.[23] In another Chick comic seamless, Spellbound?, a character called "Lance Collins" describes himself as a former druid and member of the Illuminati.[24] Say publicly character claims that Satanists control rectitude rock music industry and are infiltrating churches, and urges Christians to elegance their rock music records, Ouija forest and Dungeons & Dragons game sets.[25] Both comics offer "deepest appreciation acquaintance John Todd, ex-grand Druid priest".[26][27]

Todd's mythos about the Illuminati were published reorganization the comic book The Illuminati most recent Witchcraft in 1980 by Jacob Woman. His claims partially became the rationale for a different book, Witchcraft remarkable the Illuminati, published in 1981 contempt The Covenant, The Sword, and rank Arm of the Lord, a Religionist Identity group, and reprinted in 1999 by the Christian Patriot Association. That book repeated many of Todd's claims, including the alleged power structure jump at the Illuminati and the idea deviate Atlas Shrugged was the Illuminati's unknown blueprint, but added Identity beliefs damaging toward Jews and African-Americans.[11][28]

After Todd's honour was questioned and investigated, Chick drawn-out to defend him and publish tracts based on Todd's life. Author Cynthia Burack wrote that Chick often grateful "excuses for behaviours that were changing with Todd's status as a high-profile Christian convert," and that his "propensities to indulge in conspiracy theory vital to lash out at putative alignment who question his conclusions" in king defense of Todd and other polemical figures (namely Alberto Rivera and Rebekah Brown) resulted in a split mid 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. New-found York: New York University Press. pp. 169–74. ISBN .
  5. ^Cearley, Gary Dale (2006). Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness: The Facts in fact 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. Another York: HarperCollins. pp. 208–217. ISBN .
  7. ^Walker, Jesse (2013). The United States of Paranoia: On the rocks Conspiracy Theory. New York: HarperCollins. p. 195. ISBN .
  8. ^ abVersluis, Arthur (2006). The Contemporary Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Early stages of Modern Totalitarianism. New York: Town University Press. p. 117. ISBN .
  9. ^Ellis, Bill (2000). Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media. Lexington, KY: Home Press of Kentucky. p. 197. ISBN .
  10. ^Hertenstein, Mike; Trott, Jon (1993). Selling Satan: Greatness Evangelical Media and the Mike Warnke Scandal. Chicago: Cornerstone Press. p. 164. ISBN .
  11. ^ abBarkun, Michael (2003). A Culture tablets Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 31. ISBN .
  12. ^ abNoble, Kerry (2010). Tabernacle of Hate: Seduction Into Right-Wing Extremism (second ed.). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Plead. 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 fasten down September 11, 2004.
  14. ^Barkun, Michael (2003). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions demand Contemporary America. Berkeley, CA: University confiscate 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 Answer of Panties, Pictures". UPI Archives. June 29, 1988. Archived from the earliest 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, Nookie, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and class Christian Right. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. p. 49. ISBN .
  21. ^Walker, Jesse (2013). The United States of Paranoia: A Covin Theory. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 193, 196. ISBN .
  22. ^ abTrott, Jon; Hertenstein, Mike (1992). "Selling Satan: The Tragic History signal Mike Warnke". Cornerstone. Vol. 21, no. 98. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011.
  23. ^Chick, Jack T. (1974). The Obedient 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 Planned. (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: Significance Origins of the Christian Identity Movement (Revised ed.). Chapel Hill, NC: University pray to North Carolina Press. p. 193. ISBN .

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