Rebecca Brown

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'''Rebecca Brown Yoder'''<ref group=note>Not to be confused with the {{wpl|Rebecca Brown (author)|Australian lesbian author of the same name|.}}</ref> (born '''Ruth Irene Bailey''') {{lived|1948|2020}}<ref>[https://archive.is/63rsf Rebecca Brown Yoder], Archived from the original at rollerfuneralhomes.com.</ref> was the [[author]] of ''He Came to Set the Captives Free'' and ''Prepare For War'', both notoriously fraudulent tales about somebody named Elaine (Edna Elaine Moses) she had supposedly rescued from [[Satanism]]. Both books were published by Chick Publications and used by [[Jack Chick]] as source material for some of his own tracts about the [[occult]] (e.g. ''The Poor Little Witch'').<ref>[https://boolean-union.com/dissections/boolunion/BU.CHICK.PORL.DISCT.html The Poor Little Witch] ''Boolean Union Studios''</ref>

==Edna Elaine Moses==
[[File:He Came to Set the Captives Free.jpg|thumb|left|165px|Book cover for ''He Came to Set the Captives Free'']]
Elaine was allegedly a top member of "The Brotherhood," which Brown says is "the same cult written about...in [[Mike Warnke]]'s book, ''The Satan Seller''." Elaine was so deeply into Satanism that she actually got ''married'' to [[Satan]] himself (how dare anyone try and [[Nun|marry a deity]]!). Brown and Elaine also claimed Christian churches were being widely infiltrated by witches. ''He Came to Set the Captives Free'' has all the usual gory stories of human sacrifices and sex orgies common to such [[Christian]] books, and an encounter with a [[Lycanthropy|werewolf]] among other things. It also claims Elaine, as a high Satanist priestess, met with rock musicians (who had all signed their souls over to Satan) and with the [[Pope]] to discuss Satanist strategy. ''Prepare for War'' continues with the Elaine story interwoven with bizarre chapters on other urgent matters she just has to warn the church about, one of which is on how the Catholic mass and rosary are [[witchcraft]], another of which warns against allowing anyone to [[hypnosis|hypnotise]] you because they may be [[homosexual]]s who, once they have implanted a demon in you through hypnosis, can then [[astral projection|astrally project]] themselves into your bedroom to sodomize you while you sleep.<ref group=note>Ah! Porn for Christians. You can't make this stuff up.</ref>
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==Controversy==

Brown was quickly exposed as a fraud by other Christian ministries who investigated the story.<ref>John Baskette, [https://archive.ph/G6VGq The Bizarre Case of Dr. Rebecca Brown]. Archived from answers.org, March 1994.</ref> They further found that Edna Elaine Moses was Dr. Ruth Irene Bailey's roommate the whole time, and that Bailey/Brown had had her medical license revoked by the state of [[Indiana]] for a repeated pattern of misdiagnosing serious illnesses as "[[demonic possession]]," and for inappropriately prescribing large doses of narcotic [[drug]]s to her patients, including to Elaine. Amongst her other transgressions was telling patients that she had been "chosen by God as the only physician able to diagnose certain ailments and conditions which other physicians could not" and for falsifying patient charts regarding her patients' condition. The medical board appointed psychiatrist said that Brown herself suffered from demonic delusions/paranoid [[schizophrenia]], which would explain why, as the document says, she went from a bright stable medical student to the mess she became.

==''Unbroken Curses''==

After a falling out with Chick, her books are now published by a [[Pentecostal]] leaning publisher, Whitaker House. In 1995, she wrote ''Unbroken Curses'', an alleged guide to [[spiritual warfare]] and casting out the influence of [[demon]]s in one's life.<ref>Rebecca Brown and Daniel Yoder, ''Unbroken Curses: Hidden Source of Trouble in the Christian’s Life''. Whitaker House, 1995. {{isbn|0883683725}}</ref> The theme of the book is that people have many areas giving Satan an open door into their lives that they need to root out, often because of their ancestors having practiced non-Christian religions or because the occult activity has taken place in the past where they live. Among her more ludicrous claims are that [[Native American]] reservations are cursed ground, many children's toys are actually statues of demons, graffiti (tagging) is left by occultists to place a special type of demon called a "watcher" in an area, citizenship papers of immigrant ancestors act as an open door through which thousands of demons from the "old country" can continue to enter the United States, wind chimes invite demons into your home, and the [[anarchy]] symbol is actually a symbolic representation of a "watcher" demon that conjures up a real demon. She also tells [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitic]] tall tales of how her husband was born into a "wealthy Jewish family of [[International Jewish conspiracy|international bankers]]" and subjected to [[Satanic ritual abuse]] by a cabal of [[rabbi]]s who imprisoned him in the deepest subterranean levels of his exclusive boarding school.<ref group=note>And where can one buy this garbage pit of a book? Unfortunately, it's probably in stock at the local Barnes and Noble or Books-A-Million.</ref> There is also the intriguing claim that teens style their hair according to which demon they have sworn allegiance to.<ref>G. Richard Fisher and M. Kurt Goedelman, [http://www.pfo.org/Curse%20Theology.pdf The Curse of Curse Theology: The Return of Rebecca Brown, M.D.] The Quarterly Journal, Personal Freedom Outreach, July-September 1996.</ref>{{rp|5-11}}

==Kookbooks==

*Rebecca Brown, ''He Came to Set the Captives Free: A Guide to Recognizing and Fighting the Attacks of Satan, Witches, and the Occult''. Whitaker House, 1992. {{isbn|9780883683231}}
*Rebecca Brown, ''Prepare for War''. Whitaker House, 1992. {{isbn|0883683245}}
*Rebecca Brown, ''Becoming a Vessel of Honor''. Whitaker House, 1992. {{isbn|0883683229}}
*Rebecca Brown and Daniel Yoder, ''Unbroken Curses: Hidden Source of Trouble in the Christian’s Life''. Whitaker House, 1995. {{isbn|0883683725}}

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