Fundies, End Times and language of the NWO

[lilyannerose]

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

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So all the crazies getting mixed together eh.

Marvelous.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

The ironic thing about the end time and the rapture is that it's a modern invention,it has never been part of mainstream Christianity but has always been restricted to the lunar religious right. A few nutty Catholics wrote about it but the idea has never been a part of Catholic dogma.


The best explanations I can think of for the survival of such loopy ideas are: The church lost its heretic burning privileges a few hundred years ago. Plus,since biblical times the world population has grown alarmingly.That means it's more likely there will be a scary number of people on the crackpot fringes of all mainstream ideas and beliefs EG:Evangelicals, Scientologists, Mormons,UFOLogists, psychics,alien abductees,9/11 conspiracy frootloops and holocaust deniers.We use those evolutionary dead ends for our amusement and to provided that lovely glow of smug superiority.


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The full Wiki article I've quoted below is worth a glance.

About 1,700 years later, the concept of the rapture, in connection with premillennialism, was expressed by the American Puritan father and son Increase and Cotton Mather. They held to the idea that believers would be caught up in the air, followed by judgments on the earth and then the millennium.[19][20] The term rapture was used by Philip Doddridge (1738) and John Gill (1748) in their New Testament commentaries, with the idea that believers would be caught up prior to judgment on the earth and Jesus' Second Coming. The Baptist Morgan Edwards articulated the concept of a pre-tribulation rapture in an essay published in 1788 in Philadelphia.[21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

[lilyannerose]

About 1,700 years later, the concept of the rapture, in connection with premillennialism, was expressed by the American Puritan father and son Increase and Cotton Mather. They held to the idea that believers would be caught up in the air, followed by judgments on the earth and then the millennium.[19][20] The term rapture was used by Philip Doddridge (1738) and John Gill (1748) in their New Testament commentaries, with the idea that believers would be caught up prior to judgment on the earth and Jesus' Second Coming. The Baptist Morgan Edwards articulated the concept of a pre-tribulation rapture in an essay published in 1788 in Philadelphia.[21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

Frankly, I can't wait for the Rapture, anything to remove The Palin family off the face of the earth!

I find this whole end times/rapture thing rather fascinating. WTH is wrong with people that all they can wait for is the end of the world? Obviously they have "life" missing in their lives. There are some mega church movements putting money into fulfillment of "prophecies" in order to get Jesus off of his heavenly ass and down here on earth to start all the torture and killing of nonbelievers. The only thing that makes sense to me is that these fundies have been stockpiling guns and munitions and training I guess to be ready to fight in the JC Army!


For the longest time my thoughts on Revelations is that someone had some moldy rye with that sacrificed and alter cooked goat.

[Justtristo]

The ironic thing about the end time and the rapture is that it's a modern invention,it has never been part of mainstream Christianity but has always been restricted to the lunar religious right. A few nutty Catholics wrote about it but the idea has never been a part of Catholic dogma.

As I see it, before Christianity was made a state religion by Constantine, pre-millennialism was dominant, only after Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire, amillennialism became dominant. 1000 years later the reformation came and people went "back to basics", when it came to doctrine and started to question amillennialism. I do believe Pre-millennialism has biblical support, because amillennial assumptions such as Satan being bound have little bible justification. Although doctrines like the rapture are recent inventions which have proven popular.