Recently the following headline appeared in this Sunday newspaper, "Satanic cults converging on coast: Expert." How does one become an expert on satanic cults?... "Good morning ladies and gents; is this group in fact a coven? If so may I sit in and take notes?"

The opening sentence stated that "Satan worshippers were performing human sacrifice and other satanic rituals in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, a cult expert warned yesterday." For 'expert' read 'fanatic' and you will get closer to reality. Human sacrifices indeed? If our expert knows this to be so, and has not reported it to the police, then she is an accessory after the fact, and should be locked up for her crime.

She warned all Sunshine Coast and Caboolture residents to be wary of anyone offering an alternative to Christianity. "There are some really dangerous cults out there" she said. In reality there are some very dangerous cults in her head. Some 'controlling' cults she named as operating openly in the community included the Jehovah's Witness movement. Surely she must mean the Yahweh's, Buddha's or Allah's witnesses. These wicked cults do offer an alternative to Christian concepts of God, but the Jehovah's Witnesses are Christian through and through. They are no more controlling than any other cult which says, "Believe in this you'll go to hell." The dear old J.W's may have a naive belief about the 'end of the world' and life thereafter, but they are good, loving people who are taught to interpret the bible in a literal and rather dogmatic way. Whatever opinion you may hold of them, they cannot be accused of offering an alternative to Christianity. Different concepts perhaps, but not alternatives. Other groups she warned people to be aware of were "New Age groups that WERE or WERE NOT based on the Bible." That effectively covers ALL New Age groups. No one is safe.

The real point about this expert's belief is that you do get what you concentrated upon. She sees the devil in everything not fitting in with her concept of Christianity. She would experience the devil everywhere because her belief and fear of the devil is greater than her belief and love of God.

Nikos Kazantzarkis author of "Zorba the Greek" and the controversial "Last Temptation of Christ" wrote: "Believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it." Indeed, the mind does create our 'reality'.

Ghosts, devils and demons are not created by God - and there is no creative force outside of God - they are created by us using, quite unskilfully, our great, creative minds, individually or collectively. Ghosts, devils and demons are thoughts objectified and are made potent by the observer.

There is no such thing as a 'force of evil' in any part of God's creation. "Nothing of itself is evil. But if you believe a thing to be evil, that thing BECOMES evil." Evil is merely a denial of goodness in oneself, our neighbours and the world we live in. If you would change the evil in your world, you must first change your own thoughts. The simplest way to get rid of the devil is to start loving God with your mind.