Conspiracy: The Christian Fringe sees the Large Hadron Collider as a bid to open portals through which aliens will arrive – or it will create a black hole into which Earth will disappear. Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
It goes something like this: the megalomaniac unelected global elite — either possessed or deeply oppressed by demons — will clear the way for the biblical antichrist through a series of secret agendas that will culminate in the infiltration of the world by demons disguised as aliens.
But it will probably be the Catholic Pope who will reverentially reveal the existence of alien life, embrace it, pray for it, baptise it and herald extraterrestrials (ETs) as the creators and saviours of mankind. The Pope will then transmogrify into the wingman of the antichrist.
Welcome to the Christian Fringe, a band of authors, bloggers, podcasters and YouTubers who unify Christian prophecy with mainstream conspiracy to “prove” that we are nearing the end of days in which demons — at first disguised as aliens — will rule the world and soften up the population for the reveal of the real king of the planet: Satan.
Other contenders for the role of most nefarious of the elite almost always include World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, Vladimir Putin and less stylishly dressed mortals such as Bill Gates.
The role of enabling spokestoady (as opposed to the Pope or some Schwab iteration as chief executive) mostly takes the form of the leading billionaire or trillionaire of the day whose anorexic moral compass points the way of mass vaccination (of any sort) and forced abortion or euthanasia of the old, injured or those deemed lacking in value. The end result being a smaller, more compliant population that can serve the elite and their alien overlords without giving them nasty infections while doing so.
Using the Bible, extra-Biblical sources and mainstream news “analysis”, those on the Fringe are also known to call out Christian churches for their lack of prophetic teaching and bastardising of biblical truths.
To the Fringe, many mainstream churches — particularly those falling into the mega-fold — have whitewashed the Bible’s teachings on judgment, hell and Jesus-as-Saviour to avoid pearl clutching from the politically correct.
Some groupings in the Fringe had previously foretold that September 2015 would be the start of the Christian pre-tribulation period, which would kick off with a worldwide financial implosion and calls for a global political and spiritual saviour that would arrive in the form of an ET.
Talk of a spectacular global financial collapse has been doing the rounds since 2008’s financial crisis and long before that; nothing new here. But, the Fringe said at the time, it was the impending financial catastrophe, plus Sir Isaac Newton’s prophetic writings, plus an increase in biblical signs (Matthew 24), plus celestial phenomena such as Blood Moons and the Jewish year of Jubilee, plus calls to embrace potential alien existence that were sure to make the last months of 2015 and onwards a pit of human misery.
Ignored was the fact that if you weren’t employed and living in a “first world” country, your existence was probably going to be a pit of misery anyway.
Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian conspiracists and some fundamentalists (usually a term used for those who take the Bible literally) hold that the Pope and the Catholic Church are forces of evil that will play a huge role in the end times, with Jesuits leading the charge. The Fringe takes it further.
Often with PhDs in subjects such as physics, microbiology, genetics, Semitic languages, apologetics and economics, individuals on the Fringe have in common a hunger for eschatology.
They are devourers of science, science fiction and mainstream conspiracies; they know the artists and authors who are either occultists or science fiction aficionados — Aleister Crowley, William Blake, Isaac Asimov, HP Lovecraft — and have transferred their secular occult fascination to their Christian lives. Their Bible knowledge is astounding, as is their understanding of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek; they are often adherents of the King James Version of the Bible because of its textually pure translation.
But, as stated earlier, the Fringe are also advocates of extra-biblical and mainstream conspiratorial sources.
They put years of study into Bible verses such as Genesis 6:1–4, which, they say, when read with the apocalyptic Book of Enoch, provides sound theory about the proliferation of human evil and the “alien agenda”.
(Even though they cite it often, the Fringe is quick to point out that the Book of Enoch is Apocrypha and should not be viewed as authentic inspired text.)
Genesis 6:1–4 has long been viewed as, well, odd, and best left alone in mainstream Christian circles, but the Fringe takes it on with conspiratorial gusto.
“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
“That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
“And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bear children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” — King James Version
Some on the Fringe postulate that the reason the “fallen ones” copulated with human women (the Nephilim are widely regarded as their offspring) was to infect the human gene pool with demonic DNA. This was an attempt to hinder the birth and return of the Christian Christ by upsetting Jesus’ bloodline. They theorise that the biblical flood cited in many religions was necessary to destroy Nephilim DNA.
The Fallen Ones, Nephilim and aliens are simply demons in different guises, according to the Fringe, a view that is shared by a surprising number in mainstream churches.
The “alien agenda” is simply another way that demons will mislead mankind into one day serving a false alien Christ. This alien saviour will be embraced and marketed as a benign and loving god by the Vatican and the aforementioned elite, and eventually most populations.
This, in turn, will culminate in a one world religion, currency, government and so on, which brings us right back to the granddaddy of conspiracies, the New World Order, now usually branded as a “New Order” by politicians and globalists, undoubtedly to throw English conspiracy theorist David Icke off their reptilian scent.
Source of hope: Perhaps the Large Binocular telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory in Arizona will spot an alien willing to be baptised by the Pope. Photo: BA Tafreshi/Novapix/Leemage/AFP
Like secular UFOligists or those pushing for ET disclosure (think lawyer Daniel Sheehan or former Obama adviser John Podesta) the Fringe expects full disclosure to come soon, perhaps the next 12 to 24 months, although, as with secular conspiraphiles, the timeline usually contains a reputation-saving disclaimer.
Fringe sources for the postulations are varied and using the Catholic Church-is-the-harlot-in-scarlet as a foundation, a sometimes innocent or plain stupid statement, if made by someone on the conspiratorial radar, leads to the pricking of ears and furious blogging and podcasting.
An example of this was seen in 2015 when (Jesuit!) Pope Francis, quoted by Vatican Radio, asked what would happen “if, for example, tomorrow an expedition of Martians came to us here and one said ‘I want to be baptised!’ What would happen?”
Francis replied: “When the Lord shows us the way, who are we to say ‘No, Lord, it is not prudent. No, let’s do it this way’. Who are we to close doors?”
Speaking of potential alien life and its implications is not new to mainstream Christianity or other religions. What leaves the Fringe and some mainstream believers uneasy about the Vatican stance is that it appears to see alien life as a potential source of hope and inspiration instead of a demonic threat.
And then there’s the Vatican Observatory and the LBT Near Infrared Spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research (LUCIFER) in Arizona. LUCIFER is touted as belonging to the Vatican Observatory by conspiraphiles, but it is the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics that built and operates it. Both organisations, and others, are part of the consortium of the Mount Graham International Observatory, according to the observatory.
All of this falls on deaf conspiratorial ears when a Google search will tell conspiraphiles that Brother Guy Consolmagno, a Jesuit (!) and MIT educated research astronomer, planetary scientist and president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, said he would baptise an alien.
Interestingly, LUCIFER has been renamed LUCI, and although reasons for this could not be found, one would assume it is because the Planck Institute’s physicists finally discovered a correlation between the devil and poor PR.
As for Mount Graham itself, in their book On the Path of the Immortals and in various interviews online, Fringe authors Tom Horn and (the now deceased) Cris Putnam tell us that Indian Americans in the area have long believed it is an interdimensional portal through which “Star People” move.
The possibility of portals is manna in Fringe circles, with happenings at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — which gave us the Higgs Boson — furiously monitored. The LHC is considered to be an attempt to open portals into new dimensions, through which our alien saviours will arrive. Or it will just create a black hole that will suck the planet in and we will all die.
It’s as exciting as it is scary, but at least the LHC has given us another reference for Switzerland besides overpriced chocolate and Heidi.
Adding cause for protracted conspiratorial salivation is the statue of the Hindu (!) deity Shiva doing a Nataraja dance (!!), which is perched at CERN’s headquarters. According to Hinduism, Shiva does the Nataraja when he is going to destroy a universe. The statue has been a permanent fixture at CERN since 2004 and was a gift from India, with whom CERN has had a long collaboration, according to the CERN Courier.
Verily, the conspiratorial and prophetic world of the Fringe is vast, intricate and thoroughly fascinating. Authors such as Putnam and Horn put hours of secular and biblical research into their work; their writing is engaging. Their theories are also convincing for those who want to be convinced — those who have fallen out of love with the alleged wishy-washiness of the current Christian milieu that focuses more on social issues than Jesus Christ.
Alien greys, inter-dimensional portals and nefarious Popes aside, come the day, Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and “wishy-washy” Christians are going to have a lot to account for.
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