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As soon as I
finished “Christafarianism 1.0”, I placed a sample
chapter on the Christafari message boards. It was called
“How To Witness To A Christafarian” and I thought it
might be a good chapter to start a discussion with.
Although the
discussion went a bit heated every now and then, it
became clear that my essay was at least respected
because of it’s argumentation and that’s where the
conversations went. But not for long.
When the light
is shed over something, everything becomes visible.
“True Colours”, as they say. Were they red gold and
green, in the case of Christafari? Or red white and
blue? Action speak louder than words. And the first
weeks after Christafarianism was published these actions
turned out to be quite telling indeed.
Where the
participants in the discussion were all sincere in their
reasoning, no matter if they agreed with each other or
not, Christafari HQ had completely different ideas about
the “fires” in their “back yard”.
Contrary to the
Christafarians, they knew where the fires were all
about. Christafari was now going to be being exposed for
what it was. They knew that Christafarianism simply
can’t stand the Biblical or reasonical test and can
not be defended in an intelectual debate. Not even in a
message board discussion..
After all,
it’s a culture in an industry, presented
as a usefull tool to witness to Rastas. A business
presented as a mission. If people would wake up
and actually be able to see it for what it is, this
would have consequences.
So one morning I
woke up, clicked on the links in my computer and found
out that the thread was deleted. Gone. I looked around
in the forum. No, there were no other deletions. Just
the one with the chapter in it.
My eyes went to
the top of the screen and I saw that somebody had sent
me a private message through the Christafari message
boards. I thought that I was going to read their
explanation for the vanishing of the thread. The message
was indeed from a Christafari employee, but it didn’t
contain any explanation.
However, I was
about to find out more.
Mohr’s cell
phone numer, for example. The letter stated that he was
awake at the moment the mail was sent, and requested
that I should call him. I wrote back, that I had a
private e-mail adress and also a fax number and that
“for obvious reasons” I preferred these manners of
communication. What followed was a short time full of
weird correspondence with a bizarre phone conversation
as a climax.
A period of
interogations, intimidations, manipulations, and even
the hardest public “execution” a Christian can think
of: an anathema.
Strangely, it
started with the anathema and the rest came after that.
Most of the times, persecution ends with an execution,
but not in my case. A significant detail which we will
explore more fully in the next chapters.
After I
initially contacted one of the Christafari moderators
about the deletion of the thread, he told me how he
didn’t agree with the decision. He gave the impression
he was willing to discuss the issues adressed in the
book in an open manner, as it should be.
But it was
obvious that “HQ” had different plans.
The thread
turned out to be deleted by the same person who wrote me
the letter with Mohr’s cell phone number. Although she
hadn’t said so herself. She knew what she was doing.
I wrote back and
explained how deleting discussions might provide them
with some comfort initially, but will later turn out to
bring them quite the opposite.
What followed
was a public reply and a private correspondence with
Mark Mohr. This happened in the same time. So while the
public was reading one thing, I was reading something
else.
While the public
were given the idea that Christafari was attacked
because of their Christian Faith, behind the scenes a
complete disdain for the Holy Scriptures was painted in
front of my eyes.
How neccesary is
it to bring this out to light? How important is it to
expose this unbiblical practice which is taking so many
mind-prisoners? How
important is it to expose hypocracy and set the captives
free?
Very.
My book would
force Mark Mohr and Christafari to explain themselves
more clearly. To show themselves for what they are and
not for what they want people to think they are.
Because the book
was heavily documented they would have a hard job to
proof me wrong. But they had too. Or they had to
“kill” me. The choice was theirs. Anyway it would
show their true colours and they knew it. Or at least
sensed it. They could not permit the critique to be
discussed in their own “back yard” as they
called their message board. In order to continue their
“image” they had to re-create the enviroment in
which they communicated with people.
Or change their
ways.
Unfortunately
Christafari chose to continue their policy and
philosophy, be it in a slightly changed variety. In
their own words: more “political correct”.
And they chose to “kill” me.
Hard words?
Perhaps. But the fact, which these words describe, is
documented in the following chapters. And of course I
don’t consider myself to be killed. But spiritually,
Christafari did try to “kill” me and because of
their exposition they had to do it publicly.
What happened to
me, happened to more people. The only difference is,
that my story is published in this and that other book
as well as a number of other publications. And that
makes my story more or less symbolical for all the
other, untold, stories. And that makes me symbolical for
all those people who are victimized by Christafari
simply for being in Christafari’s way.
At
least, that is why I wrote it. Not to draw attention to
myself, not to draw attention to the victimization
itself, either. Because we will also find out why
christafari did what they did, and do what they do. Even
Mark Mohr isn’t important in this context. This book
is not about Mark Mohr either. It’s all about Christafarianism.
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