From GARY MOORE to GLEN ORRELL

> It's by Bob Larson.

Do you really take Bob Larson seriously?

If  you  do, then I suggest you listen to "Talk Back" regularly, and
take note of the different people with problems that call.  After  a
while you will say to yourself, "hey, I've heard that call before!".
At  best it can be said that he occasionally plays tapes of dramatic
calls from the past as if they were live.  It would not surprise  me
of the deception goes even farther than that, but this is all I know
for a  fact.  Even if this is the extent of his dishonesty, it still
does not say much for his integrity.

Case and point, on Fri. 26 Apr. 1991, 32  minutes  into  the  second
hour a  girl named Amy from Toronto supposedly called.  I don't know
about your local station, but mine usually does not play commercials
during the breaks, so what comes over the air is Bob's filler spots.
As Amy spoke, I recalled what she said, exact same voice, exact same
words, exact same inflections, from a  filler  spot  used  about  18
months ago.  Since I had heard the spot many times back then, voice,
words and  inflections  were  inadvertently memorized.  This was not
the first time  I  had  recognized  that  a  "live"  call  has  been
identical  to  one  of these spots, it was just the first time I had
grabbed a pen and made note of the time and person's name.  It would
seem that most stations must play  commercials  during  the  breaks,
otherwise Bob would not be so careless.

From  your  messages  it  would  seem that you share Bob's religious
views.  I know that it is common for people to automatically  assume
that  those  with  the  same  beliefs  are  going  to  give reliable
information, but I urge you to take a step  back  and  examine  just
what proof there is to back some of Bob's claims.

I  can  say  this  because I was once guilty of accepting unreliable
information on the occult as factual.  A guy I used to do witnessing
work with once shared a tape of a lecture on  the  occult  and  rock
music.  My first reaction was, "Boy this guy really knows what he is
talking  about!",  but  later when it became clear to me that people
like Larson and Giraldo Rivera  were  sensationalizing  and  blowing
Satanism way  out of proportion, I played the tape again.  Listening
critically this time, I observed that although the speaker  took  an
authoritative tone, he offered no proof and expected the audience to
accept his  word  on everything.  Since he gave his presentations in
churches, it is not surprising that people would accept what he said
without requiring evidence.

The bottom line is that Bob will only  continue  to  propagate  such
myths  as  breeders  and  organized networks of Satanists as long as
people are willing to $believe$ him. I'm  not saying  that  Satanism
doesn't exist or that no one has ever killed for the devil, but I do
consider  it  irresponsible  for  Bob  to put people on the radio as
occult crime survivors just because they say that they have had such
experiences.

The fact that  many  victim's  stories  have  been  disproven,  that
schizophrenia  is common among people claiming such experiences, and
that none that I know of have offered any  tangible  proof  to  back
their   fantastic  stories,  tells  me  that  before  a  responsible
journalist will put a person before the public as  an  occult  crime
survivor,  that person must disclose to the police the location of a
bloody alter or a  clandestine  burial  site,  or  come  up  with  a
corroborating witness.

The person who claims to be a victim, but in reality has not has the
experiences  they  speak  of,  is  probably  in just as much need of
Christian love and counselling as an actual victim.    I  would  not
tell  such a person to their face that I will only believe the story
once proof has been found, but I would not tell  other  people  that
this person is a "survivor" unless I could be sure of it myself.