## Beastie and Christianity
## Rob Garrett <rob@freebsdzine.org>

I was reading through some old email messages the other day, and ran 
across some from some "Radical Christians" concerning the *BSD logo,
Beastie.  I have decided that now is the time to speak out and tell
the real story of what the Christians' attitude towards Beastie should
be, from a biblical perspective.  However, before I get into this, I
would like to tell you a little bit about me, and why this particular
topic grates on my nerves.

I was initiated into the occult at the age of 13 and spent ten years 
practicing magic and sorcery.  I was the youngest elder high priest 
that our coven had ever had.  I sat on the high council as high
priest.  Due to Major alcoholism problems and cocaine abuse, I ended
up living at the union gospel mission in Ft. Worth Texas.

As mentioned above, I practiced all sorts of magick, and one of the
types I was most familiar with was dream magick, however around this
period of time I started having a strange dream that I couldn't
control.  I had this dream every night for 6 months.  The dream went
kind of like this; there was a short Jewish guy beckoning to me.  This
dream irritated me to the point that I couldn't sleep at all, and 
worked around the mission there until I was so exhausted that I just 
collapsed.  Finally, one night in this dream, I asked this Jewish guy
who he was and what he wanted.  He said "I am Jesus Christ and died to
save you from your sins".  Well, I got up and went down to the chapel
there in the mission, and just threw my hands up in the air, and said,
"Ok God, I'm tired of fighting with you".

Three months later, at a Kenneth Copeland convention, I was baptized
with the holy ghost.  I started Bible College three months after that.
Now, I hadn't made it past the 9th grade in school and that was a
major challenge for me.  I came close to graduating but never quite
made it, the year before last I spent traveling with a Christian
Gospel Singer named John Webster (http://www.johnwebster.org).  Now
that my life has settled down some, I'm back into the computer world
and doing something that I love once again. However, the "Christian"
comments about the *BSD logo, fail to bring to life the whole point of
what the Bible has to say on the subject.

The subject of demonology in the modern church seems to bring to the
forefront that we have lost site of who Christ is, and what he died to 
accomplish.  We don't seem to have any problem bringing all sorts of
evil into our houses and minds via television, and radio, and all
sorts of other media while speaking out on the evils of computer 
technology.  The only biblical reference that can be taken into
regards concerning computers at all is this; "In the latter days,
knowledge shall increase bringing forth all kinds of new inventions".
Those that believe that computers have anything do to with the mark of
the beast, or that the mark of the beast is a embedded silicone chip
need to reread the book of revelation.  To get the mark of the beast
one MUST bow down and worship the beast.  The beast is Satan and this
wont happen by trickery.

Those that claim that Beastie is a devil have never seen the images
of Satan that I have.  This cute little cartoon character in no way
reflects anything remotely evil, just a large step forward in
technology.  We know that Satan is not capable of anything creative,
so anything that is truly creative and on the cutting edge must be
from God.

Your's truly,

Rob

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