Fundies, End Times and language of the NWO

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The Prophecy/Conspiracy Genre - Using End Times Prophecy to Mainstream New World Order Narratives
Rachel Tabachnick
Wed Dec 08, 2010 at 03:37:19 PM EST
Part One - God TV's "Apocalypse & The End Times," is an example of how New World Order conspiracy theories are being marketed to millions as end times prophecy.

The danger of New World Order narratives is not the criticism of government and institutions like the Federal Reserve, but the use of grand conspiracy ideology in their attacks. In this context "grand" refers to conspiracies which claim that a secretive, centuries-old and centralized cabal of "Illuminati" continuously manipulates the world. The prophecy/conspiracy genre cloaks this in millennial terminology, claiming that the Illuminati's assault on "true" Christianity is paving the way for the one-world government of the Antichrist. As in narratives of the past, Jews, Jesuits, and Freemasons are again being scapegoated as the source of the claimed Illuminati cabal.

In 2004, Michael Barkun stated,"Prior to the early 1990s, New World Order conspiracism was limited to two subcultures, primarily the militantly anti-government right, and secondarily Christian fundamentalists concerned with end-time emergence of the Antichrist." Since the early 1990s tales of the New World Order have been continuously marketed to millions of Americans through end times prophecy media.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/12...Narratives