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Do not fill this in! ===End time=== [[File:JohnNelsonDarby.jpg|upright|thumb|[[John Nelson Darby]]]] Since the 19th century, many [[apocalypticism|apocalyptic]] [[millennialism|millennial]] [[Christian eschatology|Christian eschatologists]], starting with [[John Nelson Darby]], have predicted a globalist conspiracy to impose a tyrannical New World Order governing structure as the fulfillment of [[prophecies]] about the "[[Eschatology|end time]]" in the [[Bible]], specifically in the [[Book of Ezekiel]], the [[Book of Daniel]], the [[Olivet discourse]] found in the [[Synoptic Gospels]], [[2 Esdras]] 11:32 and [[Book of Revelation|Revelation]] 13:7.<ref name="Hughes">{{cite journal|last1=Hughes|first1=Richard T.|title=Revelation, Revolutions, and the Tyrannical New World Order|journal=The Huffington Post|date=24 February 2011|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-t-hughes/revolutions-in-the-middle_b_827201.html|access-date=10 July 2014}}</ref> They claim that people who have made a [[deal with the Devil]] to gain wealth and power have become pawns in a supernatural chess game to move humanity into accepting a [[utopia]]n world government that rests on the spiritual foundations of a [[syncretism|syncretic]]-[[messianism|messianic]] world religion, which will later reveal itself to be a [[dystopia]]n world empire that imposes the [[imperial cult]] of an “Unholy Trinity” of [[Satan]], the [[Antichrist]] and the [[False Prophet]].{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} In many contemporary Christian conspiracy theories, the False Prophet will be either the last [[pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]] (groomed and installed by an [[Alta Vendita]] or [[Jesuit conspiracy theories|Jesuit conspiracy]]), a [[guru]] from the [[New Age movement]], or even the leader of an elite [[fundamentalist Christian]] organization like [[The Fellowship (Christian organization)|the Fellowship]], while the Antichrist will be either the [[President of the European Union]], the [[Caliph]] of a [[Pan-Islamism|pan-Islamic]] state, or even the [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]].<ref name="Barkun 2003"/><ref name="Hughes"/> Some of the most vocal critics of end-time conspiracy theories come from within Christianity.<ref name="Berlet 1999"/> In 1993, historian Bruce Barron wrote a stern rebuke of apocalyptic Christian conspiracism in the ''Christian Research Journal'', when reviewing [[Pat Robertson|Robertson]]'s 1991 book ''[[The New World Order (Robertson)|The New World Order]]''.<ref name="Barron 1993">{{cite journal|author=Barron, Bruce |title=A Summary Critique|journal=Christian Research Journal|issue=Winter 1993|pages=44–45 |date=1993 |url=https://christian.net/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0120a.html |access-date=15 July 2020}}</ref> Another critique can be found in historian Gregory S. Camp's 1997 book ''Selling Fear: Conspiracy Theories and End-Times Paranoia''.<ref name="Camp 1997"/> Religious studies scholar Richard T. Hughes argues that "New World Order" rhetoric libels the Christian faith, since the "New World Order" as defined by Christian conspiracy theorists has no basis in the Bible whatsoever. Furthermore, he argues that not only is this idea unbiblical, it is positively anti-biblical and fundamentally [[anti-Christian sentiment|anti-Christian]], because by misinterpreting key passages in the Book of Revelation, it turns a comforting message about the coming [[kingdom of God]] into one of fear, panic and despair in the face of an allegedly approaching one-world government.<ref name="Hughes"/> [[Progressive Christianity|Progressive Christians]], such as preacher-theologian [[Peter J. Gomes]], caution [[Christian fundamentalism|Christian fundamentalists]] that a "[[unclean spirit|spirit of fear]]" can distort scripture and history through dangerously combining [[biblical literalism]], [[dispensation (period)|apocalyptic timetables]], [[demonization]] and oppressive prejudices,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sine |first1=Tom |title=Suspicions of Conspiracy: How a spirit of fear can distort scripture and history |journal=Sojourners |issue=July–August 1995 |url=http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj9507&article=950722 |access-date=10 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724154347/http://www.sojo.net//index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj9507&article=950722 |archive-date=24 July 2009 |date=July 1995 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Gomes, Peter J.|title=The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart|url=https://archive.org/details/goodbookreadingb00gome|url-access=registration|publisher=William Morrow & Co|date=1996|isbn=9780688134471|author-link=Peter J. Gomes}} {{dead link|date=July 2014}}</ref> while Camp warns of the "very real danger that Christians could pick up some extra spiritual baggage" by credulously embracing conspiracy theories.<ref name="Camp 1997"/> They therefore call on Christians who indulge in conspiracism to [[repentance|repent]].<ref name="Vandruff">{{cite web| author=Vandruff, Dean| author2=Vandruff, Laura|title=Christians & Conspiracy Theories: A Call to Repentance|url=http://www.acts17-11.com/conspire.html|access-date=30 November 2009}}</ref><ref name="Coughlin 1999">{{cite book|author=Coughlin, Paul T.|title=Secrets, Plots & Hidden Agendas: What You Don't Know About Conspiracy Theories|publisher=InterVarsity Press|date=1999|isbn=0-8308-1624-0}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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