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Laura

Hello, I wrote you a few days ago. I've become obsessed with reading everything on your site, and now I have . . . and am anxiously waiting for my tapes to arrive.

I just wanted to write and make a comment on album/CD covers. Maybe this is a weird topic, but you'll see my point. I was raised in church, saved at 7, was a good Christian teenager, made straight-A's all through school, never smoked, drank, was never in any trouble. When I was a teen, I wouldn't purchase any albums by people like Ozzy or Led Zeppelin or AC/DC, we knew what folks like that were up to -- and my mother even checked my album covers, because I bought a lot of music. Even to my mom's way of thinking, Journey seemed relatively harmless -- no nasty lyrics, a nice stage show, no bad videos, etc. Compared to other bands, Journey was nothing. Now, of course, that was 20 years ago. I bought every Journey album in existence, and when albums became obsolete, I re-purchased them all as CD's, to this day. I love the lead singer, Steve Perry's, voice. I haven't had a computer for very long, but when I got one, I began to investigate things, particularly at The Cutting Edge -- which linked me over to your site! And because of my extreme love for Journey, even 20 years later, I began investigating them -- and THEIR ALBUM COVERS. I don't know if you're familiar with them -- but almost every single album cover includes a winged scarab. When I discovered the meaning of that winged scarab, it made me nauseous. Further, when I traveled to Journey's new website, (albeit minus Steve Perry), they mentioned how proud they are of the new album and how wonderful it was that they are now like the Phoenix, rising from the ashes -- and of course, by now I knew about what the Phoenix was, too -- from reading The Cutting Edge. This made me even sicker.

My point is, I'm beginning to think that all performers -- singers, actors, etc., are involved in the occult/are Satanists. Because if even harmless-looking and sounding Journey is, what about the other people who seem sinister?!!!! And you know what we teenagers thought about the winged scarabs on the covers? I said to my boyfriend, "Why do you think there are beetles on these covers?" He said, "I don't know, but the covers are really cool, aren't they?" -- we thought NOTHING ABOUT IT, and continued buying the records and going to see them in concert.

Now, you may think that I'm writing because, 20 years later, I'm a mom, and therefore I'm interested in looking into this music stuff, for the sake of my kids. I'm not. I became permanently disabled and am still ensconced in my parents' home -- I never got to move out. I'm just investigating this for myself, because I have more than 400 CD's, I would guess, listen to music for hours every day -- and I'm looking into this for my own sanity! I thought I was buying harmless music . . . and apparently none of it is harmless. I was thinking about my CD collection -- and all of the "harmless" people I felt I was listening to, -- and I began looking more carefully at the album covers. And a lot of the covers have, surprise, surprise? Hidden suns, hidden all-seeing eyes, etc. I just cannot stop thinking, everybody in music, on TV, in movies, etc. -- they're in the occult. Boy, that makes me sad and sick. But you know, I suppose that the album covers tell their own secret stories -- but no one knows how to decipher them. Symbols to the innocent mean nothing. And to the Satanic, symbols are everything. Several soap operas' sets on TV right now contain Satanic symbolic items -- obelisks, a marble ball with a big black serpent resting on top, crystal balls on a mantle, two have paintings/posters of the all-seeing-eye, etc. When you're disabled, you end up watching a lot of TV, and I've seen all of these things for myself. So, obviously, the soap opera folks are entrenched in this mire, too. And I read your Hollywood exposes -- they're as bad as the music exposes . . . I am just thinking that, to get ANYwhere in the entertainment industry, you have to sell your soul to Satan. Even the people on the silly soap operas. Boy, that is pitiful.

All I can say is, I've read a lot of bad things about Christian Contemporary Music too, and I sure hope people like Steven Curtis Chapman (my favorite) aren't fooling us, too. Because I have about 100 Christian CD's, also. It would hurt me far worse to think all of those people are involved in this kind of stuff, too.

Well, I'll get off my soap box, didn't mean to type you a whole book -- I just admire your site and wanted to mention the album covers. Your site fascinates me -- I worry you're going to get sued by somebody! :-(

Will pray for you, God bless you guys,
Laura

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