INTRODUCTION: THE MORNING AFTER

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.

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