Thread by @QOrigins

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: