Alice Cooper Has Become a Member of the Church of Satan?

Rock musician Alice Cooper has become a member of the Church of Satan?????  For years, he has claimed to be a “born-again Christian.”  Cooper’s actual religious heritage is Bickertonite.  The Bickertonites are a small Trinitarian Mormon sect named for Wlliam Bickerton, but actually formed by the fascinating Sidney Rigdon. (Rigdon was a ubiquitous American religious figure from the nineteenth century who was quite fractious, becoming involved in one religious argument after another and moving rapidly among religious denominations and then quickly becoming a prominent leader in each of them.  Rigdon was in rapid succession, a leader among the Baptists, the Campbellites (Disciples of Christ), the main Joseph Smith Mormon group, and several Mormon schismatic sects.  Rigdon usually ended up disassociated or excommunicated by his former affiliative groups.)

Bickertonites  http://www.thechurchofjesuschrist.org/index.cfm

http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=113546

http://www.mormonwiki.com/Bickertonites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_(Bickertonite)

http://graceforgrace.com/2008/02/18/lds-church-vs-church-of-jesus-christ-bickertonites-vs-rlds-community-of-christ/

For the record, many people believe that this is an elaborate April Fools Joke being perpetrated by Alice Cooper for the publicity it will engender.

The Roberts Group

The Roberts Group was founded in 1971 by Jimmie T. Roberts, a former Pentecostal minister. The group has never taken an official name but is known by several: The Brethren, The Brothers and Sisters, The Church, and The Garbage Eaters (members get all their meals by collecting food from garbage dumpsters). Roberts is referred to as "the Elder" or "Brother Evangelist," and makes all decisions for the group. Roberts makes no claim to deity and lives the same simple life as his followers.

Members of The Brethren see the world as hopelessly corrupt and believe that they are the end-times remnant of Jesus' church; all others are deceitful and wicked. They live a vagrant, migratory lifestyle, sometimes taking odd jobs for spending money. The men all wear beards and the women wear long dresses and do not cut their hair. Women are restricted to the traditional female roles of cooking and child rearing.

In their theology, the group is millenial, apocalyptic, and strictly puritan. Married members remain married but no new marriages are allowed since these are the end-times.

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/169-roberts-group-garbage -eaters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brethren_(Jim_Roberts_group)