Rebecca Brown (Christian author)
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Rebecca Julia Brown is a controversial Christian
author and former doctor
best known for her claims of having helped people escape the occult
in Indiana and various locations. Brown later had her medical license revoked for improper diagnosis and over medication of patients. She is known for her series of books and other publications about Satanism. According to Brown, there are Satanic recruitment camps throughout the world which train future Satanists
and Witches
.
Brown married Daniel Michael Yoder on December 10, 1989 and currently leads a Christian group called Harvest Warriors with her husband.
, owner of Chick Publications, who published their claims in two cassette tapes Closet Witches 1 and Closet Witches 2 and in two books He Came To Set The Captives Free (1986) and Prepare for War (1987). Rebecca Brown's stories were the basis for the Chick tract
The Poor Little Witch, which portrayed witches recruiting school children into Satanism and infiltrating Christian churches in order to buy off ministers with bribes.http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0064/0064_01.asp
Also among the two women's claims were that Yoga
is Satanic, Roman Catholicism is Witchcraft
, that Satanists work very closely with the Freemasons and the Roman Catholic Church
, that Dungeons & Dragons
and other role-playing games are Satanic, and that speaking in tongues
and divine healing cannot always be trusted.
Chick and Brown later decided to end their business relationship. Jack Chick still defends Rebecca Brown and believes her books are truthful. Some Christians have claimed to have been helped by these books, although there are also many who doubt the validity of them. Brown's books were reprinted in 1992 by Whitaker House
, which continues to print and distribute them to this day.http://www.whitakerhouse.com/
Her other books are Prepare for War, Standing On The Rock, Becoming A Vessel of Honor, and Unbroken Curses; the latter which argues among other things that American Indian
reservations are cursed ground, and that violence in the modern African American
community stems from inherited family curses originating with Africa
n tribal warfare http://www.pfo.org/curse-th.htm.
. She claimed to have been a Satanic High Priestess and to have been involved in a marriage ceremony with Satan. Her surname is not mentioned in any of Rebecca Brown's books, but she is the source of many of Rebecca Brown's claims.
Elaine's real identity was revealed as Edna Elaine Moses (née Knost), a mentally unstable woman from New Castle, IN who met Brown during her residency at Ball Memorial Hospital
in 1980. Court records show a marriage in 1967, which ended 2½ months later when her husband said she treated him in a "cruel and inhuman manner". After separating from her husband, Elaine lived with her mother and stepfather. Until the late 1970s, she remained in New Castle.
Elaine and Rebecca were roommates at the time her first two books were published, and also lived with Elaine's developmentally challenged daughter, Claudia. Elaine was identified in legal documents when Brown's license was revoked, following an incident in which Elaine arrived at a hospital covered in lesions. Rebecca was "inappropriately treating Edna Elaine Moses' purported leukemia with massive doses of Demerol and Phenobarbitol to the point where the patient would tolerate 600 to 900 cc injections of Demerol, a fatal dose of which is normally in the 150 to 200 cc range, and up to three times the recommended therapeutic dose of Phenobarbitol."
They eventually went their separate ways, and Elaine died Feb. 19, 2005.
In 1984, Brown's medical license was revoked by the issuing state of Indiana. The licensing board ruled that on numerous occasions she had "knowingly and intentionally misdiagnosed her patients", blaming their illnesses on "demons, devils, and evil spirits." A board-appointed psychiatrist diagnosed her as suffering from "acute personality disorders including demonic delusions and/or paranoid schizophrenia" and observed her injecting herself with unknown substances. The board also found that she had over-medicated her patients and administered improper treatments, as well as failed to properly document their treatment.
The 1984 medical board findings from the state of Indiana identified Elaine as Edna Elaine Moses (aka Elaine Moses, aka Elaine Bailey), one of Brown's patients, and charged that Brown had misdiagnosed her with leukaemia and inappropriately treated her with large doses of Demerol and Phenobarbital
. Elaine had to be hospitalized for detoxification of the controlled substances Brown had given her.
Brown's husband, Daniel Yoder, was arrested on July 29, 1991 in Phoenix
, Arizona
and extradited to Iowa. Yoder was charged with falsifying motor vehicle registrations and driver’s licenses, and falsifying social security records, allegedly using the social security number of a dead man. During the court proceedings the prosecution amended court documents to include the defendant’s true and correct name of William Joseph Stewart. After initially pleading not guilty, Yoder eventually agreed to a plea bargain
in which he pled guilty and was fined $1,976.92, plus a surcharge of $593.08 and court costs.
Her books, He Came to Set the Captives Free and Prepare for War were investigated by Personal Freedom Outreach
, a counter-cult Christian organization that has outlets in several major cities like St. Louis and Chicago. PFO concluded both Elaine and Dr. Brown's stories were false, based upon the above evidence coupled with many inconsistencies between the books and their teaching tapes and testimonies. Many of these findings were published in the article "Drugs, Demons, and Delusions," originally published in 1989 http://www.culthelp.info/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=1091. Another counter-cult organization, Answers in Action, also published their own findings, including court records, in an online article http://www.answers.org/satan/brown.html.
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
author and former doctor
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
best known for her claims of having helped people escape the occult
Occult
The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...
in Indiana and various locations. Brown later had her medical license revoked for improper diagnosis and over medication of patients. She is known for her series of books and other publications about Satanism. According to Brown, there are Satanic recruitment camps throughout the world which train future Satanists
Satanism
Satanism is a group of religions that is composed of a diverse number of ideological and philosophical beliefs and social phenomena. Their shared feature include symbolic association with, admiration for the character of, and even veneration of Satan or similar rebellious, promethean, and...
and Witches
Witchcraft
Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...
.
Brown married Daniel Michael Yoder on December 10, 1989 and currently leads a Christian group called Harvest Warriors with her husband.
Books
In the mid 1980s, Rebecca and her then roommate Elaine went with their claims to Jack ChickJack Chick
Jack Thomas Chick is an American publisher, writer, and comic book artist of fundamentalist Christian tracts and comic books...
, owner of Chick Publications, who published their claims in two cassette tapes Closet Witches 1 and Closet Witches 2 and in two books He Came To Set The Captives Free (1986) and Prepare for War (1987). Rebecca Brown's stories were the basis for the Chick tract
Chick tract
Chick tracts are short evangelical-themed tracts created by American publisher Jack Chick. Chick tracts use a comic book format. They are often controversial for their enthusiastic endorsement of fundamentalist Christianity and condemnation of ecumenical, liberal, and prosperity Christians, the...
The Poor Little Witch, which portrayed witches recruiting school children into Satanism and infiltrating Christian churches in order to buy off ministers with bribes.http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0064/0064_01.asp
Also among the two women's claims were that Yoga
Yoga
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...
is Satanic, Roman Catholicism is Witchcraft
Witchcraft
Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...
, that Satanists work very closely with the Freemasons and the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
, that Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
and other role-playing games are Satanic, and that speaking in tongues
Glossolalia
Glossolalia or speaking in tongues is the fluid vocalizing of speech-like syllables, often as part of religious practice. The significance of glossolalia has varied with time and place, with some considering it a part of a sacred language...
and divine healing cannot always be trusted.
Chick and Brown later decided to end their business relationship. Jack Chick still defends Rebecca Brown and believes her books are truthful. Some Christians have claimed to have been helped by these books, although there are also many who doubt the validity of them. Brown's books were reprinted in 1992 by Whitaker House
Whitaker House
Whitaker House is a charismatic, theologically conservative, evangelical Christian publishing house in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, just east of Pittsburgh...
, which continues to print and distribute them to this day.http://www.whitakerhouse.com/
Her other books are Prepare for War, Standing On The Rock, Becoming A Vessel of Honor, and Unbroken Curses; the latter which argues among other things that American Indian
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
reservations are cursed ground, and that violence in the modern African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
community stems from inherited family curses originating with Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
n tribal warfare http://www.pfo.org/curse-th.htm.
Elaine
An important associate of Brown's was a reputed ex-Satanist known as Elaine, who is described in Brown's book, He Came to Set the Captives Free, as having left Satanism and converted to ChristianityChristianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
. She claimed to have been a Satanic High Priestess and to have been involved in a marriage ceremony with Satan. Her surname is not mentioned in any of Rebecca Brown's books, but she is the source of many of Rebecca Brown's claims.
Elaine's real identity was revealed as Edna Elaine Moses (née Knost), a mentally unstable woman from New Castle, IN who met Brown during her residency at Ball Memorial Hospital
Ball Memorial Hospital
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital is the only hospital in the city of Muncie, Indiana. It was founded by the Ball Brothers, hence the name Ball Memorial Hospital...
in 1980. Court records show a marriage in 1967, which ended 2½ months later when her husband said she treated him in a "cruel and inhuman manner". After separating from her husband, Elaine lived with her mother and stepfather. Until the late 1970s, she remained in New Castle.
Elaine and Rebecca were roommates at the time her first two books were published, and also lived with Elaine's developmentally challenged daughter, Claudia. Elaine was identified in legal documents when Brown's license was revoked, following an incident in which Elaine arrived at a hospital covered in lesions. Rebecca was "inappropriately treating Edna Elaine Moses' purported leukemia with massive doses of Demerol and Phenobarbitol to the point where the patient would tolerate 600 to 900 cc injections of Demerol, a fatal dose of which is normally in the 150 to 200 cc range, and up to three times the recommended therapeutic dose of Phenobarbitol."
They eventually went their separate ways, and Elaine died Feb. 19, 2005.
Controversies
Perhaps the biggest controversy surrounding Rebecca Brown's books are her claims about the existence of large, Satanic covens in America performing various evil works, rituals and sacrifices and the teaching in her books that born-again Christians can be inhabited (not possessed) by demons.In 1984, Brown's medical license was revoked by the issuing state of Indiana. The licensing board ruled that on numerous occasions she had "knowingly and intentionally misdiagnosed her patients", blaming their illnesses on "demons, devils, and evil spirits." A board-appointed psychiatrist diagnosed her as suffering from "acute personality disorders including demonic delusions and/or paranoid schizophrenia" and observed her injecting herself with unknown substances. The board also found that she had over-medicated her patients and administered improper treatments, as well as failed to properly document their treatment.
The 1984 medical board findings from the state of Indiana identified Elaine as Edna Elaine Moses (aka Elaine Moses, aka Elaine Bailey), one of Brown's patients, and charged that Brown had misdiagnosed her with leukaemia and inappropriately treated her with large doses of Demerol and Phenobarbital
Phenobarbital
Phenobarbital or phenobarbitone is a barbiturate, first marketed as Luminal by Friedr. Bayer et comp. It is the most widely used anticonvulsant worldwide, and the oldest still commonly used. It also has sedative and hypnotic properties but, as with other barbiturates, has been superseded by the...
. Elaine had to be hospitalized for detoxification of the controlled substances Brown had given her.
Brown's husband, Daniel Yoder, was arrested on July 29, 1991 in Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
, Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
and extradited to Iowa. Yoder was charged with falsifying motor vehicle registrations and driver’s licenses, and falsifying social security records, allegedly using the social security number of a dead man. During the court proceedings the prosecution amended court documents to include the defendant’s true and correct name of William Joseph Stewart. After initially pleading not guilty, Yoder eventually agreed to a plea bargain
Plea bargain
A plea bargain is an agreement in a criminal case whereby the prosecutor offers the defendant the opportunity to plead guilty, usually to a lesser charge or to the original criminal charge with a recommendation of a lighter than the maximum sentence.A plea bargain allows criminal defendants to...
in which he pled guilty and was fined $1,976.92, plus a surcharge of $593.08 and court costs.
Her books, He Came to Set the Captives Free and Prepare for War were investigated by Personal Freedom Outreach
Personal Freedom Outreach
Personal Freedom Outreach is an Evangelical organization that serves to "educate Christians about the dangers and heretical doctrines of religious cults, to use the Gospel of Jesus Christ to reach members of those cults and to warn Christians of unbiblical teachings within the church itself." PFO...
, a counter-cult Christian organization that has outlets in several major cities like St. Louis and Chicago. PFO concluded both Elaine and Dr. Brown's stories were false, based upon the above evidence coupled with many inconsistencies between the books and their teaching tapes and testimonies. Many of these findings were published in the article "Drugs, Demons, and Delusions," originally published in 1989 http://www.culthelp.info/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=1091. Another counter-cult organization, Answers in Action, also published their own findings, including court records, in an online article http://www.answers.org/satan/brown.html.