Very excited to read this. Hopefully it won’t keep me up past my bedtime.
UPDATE: it gets off to a surprisingly environmentalist start, but ALSO says “the Jew” twice *before chapter one.*
UPDATE 2: “CHART ONE” turns out to be all the way over on page 144.
I, too, used to read military history books, Hal Lindsey.
UPDATE 3: this book has a whole-ass chapter called “The Yellow Peril.”
“A terrifying prophecy,” writes Lindsey, “is made about this Asian horde.”
“For centuries,” he adds, “Asia has had a tradition of backwardness.”
I’m gonna stop quoting this now bc you get the idea. Man.
Page 110 has a section titled “Emergence of the One-World Religion,” which will be familiar to anyone who’s, uh, read or heard *one syllable* of conspiracy-theorist ideation.
Also, from the Department of Things That Definitely Happened:
Oh hey, look at this. I have the 1977 edition, but here’s the back-cover copy.
We think of the Satanic Panic as a phenomenon of the 80s and 90s, and it’s commonly linked to cultural anxieties around the growing number of women in the workforce (hence the day-care panics). But…
It seems pretty likely you could write a good book covering conservative Christian anxieties about hippies, drugs, and the counterculture being the seeds of Satanism, and argue that *this* was the real cause of the panic, & the daycare stuff got bolted on after it was underway.
I have to go to bed now. But before I do, let me take you on a tour of [Citation Needed] moments:
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