Twisted Christians (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Sam Johnson: Had a career with the Department of Defense (DOD) in the National Reconnaissance Office, as the Malicious Code Mitigation Lead for the Advanced Systems and Technology directorate as a government contractor. Was married with 2 children, Zach and Brittany. Wife, Cynthia, left him for another man. He then became an alcoholic. Went from being employed in the DOD to being an inmate in the Dept of Corrections (DOC, prison). Became a Christian. Baptised at Mount Carmel Baptist Church two months before his incarceration for felony. Is nicknamed TZ by fellow inmates as he likes his times of zoning out. It originally stood for Twilight Zone. His other nickname is Johnny Depp due to his strong resemblance to the famous actor/musician. On do-rag days, he is called "Captain Jack Sparrow" or simply "Captain Jack".
• Gene: African-American incarcerated for defending himself against racist attackers. Sam's friend. Fellow Christian and inmate at Coffeewood Correctional Center.
• Cynthia Blair: Sam's ex-wife. Currently married to Jack Blair.
• Billy Bob Thorougood: Bill Thorougood is the president and CEO of Vodoun Technologies, Inc. Born in Europe, he now lives in a mansion located in the outskirts of Winchester, Virginia. He is a mysterious man whose ties with the United Nations lead to the installation of 2,048-bit encrypted microchips on all computers' motherboards and in cellular phones and other RF devices. Cynthia meets Billy in Brandi's Bar and Grill. He encourages her to leave her boyfriend, Jack, for a better man that Billy has lined up for her. Cynthia does not know this man and is surprised he knows her. He is dressed in all black; shirt, tie, trousers and trenchcoat. Handsome and has a European accent. His personality is similar to Christopher Walken. He states that Sam Johnson is a past client of his. This man is really a demon who has taken on the appearance and likeness of a man in order to influence and manipulate those humans he is interested in.
• Brian Stultz: Friend of Sam Johnson. Known in Cyberland as Cybermancer. Owns a 2009 Dodge Charger. In his split foyer home, Brian has a "play room" located two stories below ground level. A hidden elevator accessed this play room. The only individuals who had knowledge of the secret levels of the house were Brian, Jay and Sam. Not even Brian's ex-girlfriend, Tracey, knew of it.
• Officer Wells: Prison Officer. Know the handbook better than anyone else. He participated in the writing of it. He knows all of the inmates by name and which ones are on the Master Pass Lists for all the various religious services, which ones are approved toreceive medication, which ones were going to Picture Perfect, etcetera. He can account for all one-hundred ninety-six inmates in building 4 while he is on post.
• Paul Taylor (Full name John Paul Taylor).: Inmate. Raised a Catholic. Received a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Christendom College in 1997. In 2001, graduated from Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary. Became an ordained priest for the Roman Catholic Church in 2002. Landed in prison for embezzlement. Converted to being a Messianic Jew.
• Dr Jacqueline Rich: African-American. Has a fascination with the paranormal which developed when her father, the famous attorney, Benjamin Charles Rich took her to see the Ghostbusters movie when she was a child. She studied at Duke University's Parapsychology Laboratory. One of her professors helped her to get a job with PRI International (formerly known as the Parapsychology Research Institute. She worked on the west coast for ayear when she was asked to move to the Northern Virginia area for more money and the career opportunity of a lifetime. Since being an employee with PRI, she had also been an employee of NRO. When PRI lost its contract bid, the Contracts Officer from the NRO's Advanced Systems and Technology directorate helped her to become an independent contractor. She called her new company RPM, Rich Parapsychological Monitoring. Her office is in Tower One at the NRO.
• Brad Tyson: Jacqueline's boss. The Director of the Advanced Systems and Technology directorate of the NRO. Forty-four years old, but looks in his early thirties. Grew up in Montana, which produced a gentle personality, which made him easy to get along with, well-liked by everyone.
• Jack Eugene Blair: The man who Cynthia Johnson marries after leaving Sam. He is a violent man having beaten Cynthia over five times within the past year.
• Detective George Murphy: Investigates the murder of Jack Blair with Cynthia Blair as the prime suspect
• Lou (Read name Lucifer): Spirit in human form that appears to Sam at night. He was wearing Coffeewood issued green scrubs and had a nicely trimmed goatee. Sam first sees him floating next to his upper bunk in the middle of the night. Later on, he appears to Cindy as a tall, handsome man with dark hair, an attractive goatee, dark, piercing eyes and a Brad Pitt nose. His suit is similar to Bill's, only he is not wearing a tie. Black coat, black button-up shirt, black pants, and unbelievable shiny black shoes.
• Donald Bryce: Director of the National Reconnaissance Office
• Cesar Servin: United States President
• Roger Gibson: An old colleague of Jacqueline Rich who was employed by her after she established her new company Rich Parapsychological Monitoring. She had met Roger when he was a guinea pig at Duke University's Parapsychological Laboratory. Roger is involved in astral travel.
• Christie Sloan: Neighborhood friend of Sam Johnson's. She was raised as a Catholic, married a Catholic but her husband used to beat her. She divorced him due to this and as a result, due to Catholic doctrine, she was ex-communicated from the Church. She gave up on God and practised Wicca. She started out as a white witch but in time embraced Wicca fully. After Cynthia Johnson left Sam, he meets up with Christie who was now fully Gothic in appearance and after a sexual encounter with Sam, she takes on the voice of a demon who claims that Sam belongs to the devil. Christie shows up again when Jack attacks Cynthia and Christie murders Jack. She is possessed by a demon in this attack.
• Ben Rich (full name Benjamin Charles Rich): Jacqueline Rich's father. Lawyer to Billy Bob Thorougood and who is defending Cynthia in her murder trial.
• Kitara Jackson (past underground hacker name: Helen Kitty): Known in Cyberland as Dark Impress. Online contact of Brian Stultz. Mother is Japanese, father is American. Parents died when she was very young. Works for the NSA. Has fallen in love with Brian. Is a friend and past colleague of Jacqueline Rich.
• James P Knight: Air Force colonel and director of SIGINT-Signals Intelligence directorate and friend of Brad Tyson's
• Cindy Blair: Add a description of this character.
• Jackie
• Sancho
• Tony
• Yosef
• Randy
• Bill Thorougood
• Yeshua
• Jack Blair
• Benjamin Rich
• Saul
• Miss Mcgee
• Rachel
• Melanie
• Elijah
• Ciiiinnndy
• Peter
• Sammy
• Jesus Garcia
• Magnus
• Johnny Depp

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• “Demons check in, but they don't check out!”

  Sancho

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• “This has led me to question a lot of things about myself. Why do I put up a Christmas tree when Jeremiah chapter ten tells me not to do so? Why do I celebrate Easter when all throughout the Bible, God is telling me to celebrate Passover? Why do I select a verse or two and take its meaning out of context in an effort to prove a point?

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• “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

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• “I’ll tell you a secret that keeps me going. The more bad things that come my way, the better. I know that I must be doing something right as long as demons continue to attempt to distract me. If my life were easy, I might have to wonder what it is that I’m doing wrong.

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• “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: “For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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• “I am a twisted Christian, my friend. I know the Scriptures yet I continue to sin.”

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• Blessed are you, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who has sanctified us in your word, and given us Yeshua our Messiah, and commanded us to be light to the world. Amen.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Coffeewood Correctional Center, Mitchells, Virginia: Originally designed to house approximately six-hundred inmates inside seven buildings. Each building was split into two dorms. Buildings numbered one through six each consist of forty-nine bunks. These six buildings were used to house most of the prison's population, including most of the inmate workforce-kitchen workers, ground maintenance, library and law library aides, GED tuturs, paint crews, pipe cleaning crews, and each dorm's housekeeping workers. Building number 7 was also split into tow sections, but this building consisted of holding cells. The A side of building 7 housed special assignment inmate workers, such as outside ground maintenance workers who care for the lawn outside the prison's razor wire fence. These are level 1 inmates who did not pose any threat to security and were trusted not to attempt escape. Commissary workers also had the option to reside in building 7A. The B sdie of building 7 consisted of holding cells for those who would bring trouble upon themselves and others: and served as a temporary residence until the perpetrator was allowed to be re-installed into general population. 7B is nicknamed "The Hole". Over the years, each dorm's bunks had been upgraded to bunk beds, increasing the population to approximately 1,200. Unfortunately for the residence, there was no upgrade to the restrooms or the dayrooms. Beyond the restroom's entrance-two swinging, saloon-style partitions-there were five open showers to the left with a wall separating the sink and toilet area. Five sinks were mounted along the wall that separated the showers. four toilets and four urinals were located along the far wall opposite the sinks. This was supposed to be adequate for 98 men per dorm, but many a fight had been the result of cramming so many men into one small living area-especially after eating the food supplied by the prison. Some belived that someone in the kitchen had been adding Ex-Lax as a special ingredient, causing everyone to run to the toilet immediately after eating a meal. Something was definitely not right with the food. Four toilets, ninety-eight men; not a good ratio even if the Ex-Lax rumor had been a hoax. The "boulevard" separated the buildings and ran from east to west. Buildings 1 through 3 were on the north side of the boulevard while buildings 4 through 6 were on the southern side. Building 7 was located at the eastern end of the boulevard, away from the other six and tucked away behind a razor wire fence. The inmates were to leave their buildings and walk down the boulevard in order to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in the "Chow Hall". There as no roof above the boulevard, which made for a nice walk on a beautiful day. Most inmates opted out of eating in the Chow Hall when the weather was not cooperative. Commissary, Medical, Property , the Chow Hall, and vocational classes were all located in a building resembling a strip mall. The west end of the boulevard led to a 90 degree right hand turn and to the DCE (Department of Correctional Education) building. The building's left entrace provided the barber shop, the law library, library, GED and college classrooms, and staff offices. The middle entrance to the building led to the gymnasium, which was also used for band practice on Fridays, various religious services for large congregations-such as the inter-denominational services-and choir practice. The door to the extreme right led to the Watch Commander's office and the Visitation Room.
• Warren County Jail, Front Royal, Virginia
• The National Reconnaissance Office: The National Reconnaissance Office is an oddly shaped building. From a bird's eye view, it could be compared to a hand-minus the thumb. Each of the four "fingers" are referred to as towers. There are also two separate buildings-the Visitor Center and the Mail Receiving building. The Visitior Centre is where one is directed to go if they were not a permanent NRO employee, but had the proper top secret clearance needed to enter the Secured Compartmented Information Facility without a badge. The Mail Receiving building was the furthest away from the headquarters.
• Mansion Winchester
• Fleuretta
• United States

Organizations edit see section history

• Department of Defence: Add a description of this organization.
• Department of Corrections
• Vodoun Technologies, Inc.
• PRI International: Formerly known as the Parapsychology Research Institute. Conducts parapsychological research for a variety of contractors, including the United States government.
• National Reconnaissance Office: The forerunner in spy runner technology. Known for its involvement with the SR-71 spy plane and the modern unmanned air vehicles, or UAVs, such as the Predator and Gobal Hawk,.
• SCIF: Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility of the NRO. This is no longer a place in which an employee could not confirm nor deny. It was no longer a super-secret, non-existent entity, hidden from the public by a deceiving sign at the building's entrance, which at one time had read "Boeing". Now it was in the middle of the public domain, with an Internet web site. NRO memorabilia could be found throughout the northern Virginia area. T-shirts, hats, coffee mugs, ink pens, shot glasses, golf balls, beer mugs, and large coins- all displaying the NRO's logs, which was a spy satellite orbiting the planet Earth.

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Glossary edit see section history

• Yeshua: Hebrew name for Jesus.
• Tanakh: Hebrew term for The Old Testament.
• B'rit Hadashah: Hebrew term for The New Testament.
• Ruach HaKodesh: Hebrew term for The Holy Spirit (Third person of the Trinity)
• Yisrael: Hebrew term for Israel
• Talmidim: Hebrew term for disciples
• DVIP: Domestic Violence Intervention Program.
• Natzal: Hebrew term for rapture
• IRL: Acronymn for In real life
• Shabbut Shalom: Hebrew term for Sabbath peace
• Yarmulke: A skullcap worn, especially during prayer and religious study, by Jewish males, especially those adhering to Orthodox or Conservative tradition.
• Tallit: a shaw llike garment of wool, silk, or the like, with fringes, or zizith, at the four corners, worn around the shoulders by Orthodox and Conservative (sometimes also Reform) Jews, as during the morning service.
• Olam hazeh: Hebrew term for the end of the age, the last days.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Spiritual Warfare: There are forces at work in our lives which we often can't see ... the demons in the spirit world. They are real and very dangerous. Christians, however, learn to battle those demons and drive them from their midst.
• Spiritual growth: Calling oneself a Christian and behaving like one are two different things. Some of the convicts learn this difference and grow closer to God in a place that turns so many against him.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Scott Meade (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Craig Stultz (Cover Artist)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Supernatural themes, sexually explicit detail and sexual interaction between demons and human females.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Literature & Fiction › Fiction

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Scott Meade's Amazon Author Page
• Scott Meade's My Space Page

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