Victor Dunstan, The Invisible Hand

Victor Dunstan - author of Did the Virgin Mary Live and Die in England? - is not a conventional Christian. He refers to God as the "great universal spirit" and believes that the Biblical prophets were telepaths who could talk to God through their mind powers. In The Invisible Hand he presents his own version of the end of the world (due to begin in 1992), a deliciously cracked alternative to the Hal Lindsey version.

Some highlights:

• Dunstan believes in the British Israelism theory - the idea that the Anglo-Saxon, British and Celtic peoples are the lost tribes of Israel. At first sight he does not appear to be an anti-semite: he is very much on the side of the Jewish people, and believe that together the Anglo-Saxon and Jewish peoples can bring peace and prosperity to the world. (The British Israel theory did give birth to the anti-semitic Christian Identity movement in the states, however.)
  
  
• Dunstan, meanwhile, believes that the Anglo-Saxon people - having descended from Joseph, Jacob's favourite son - are the "chosen people", and therefore are pre-eminent amongst the Israelites. As such, they will rule the world after Armageddon and the Jews will have a secondary (though still exalted) role.
  
  
• As such, he thinks that the USA and the Scandanavian countries should join the British Commonwealth to become a kind of Anglo-Saxon Federation, to accomplish the manifest destiny of all those who have "sprung from the Anglo-Saxon, British, and Celtic stocks". (One wonders what the place of non-Anglo-Saxons in this Federation would be.) By the time that Armageddon happens, this Federation will be recognised as representing the lost tribes, and will unify as a single political unit with Israel, and the King of this magnificent nation will be Jesus Christ returned.
  
  
• He also asserts that the Druids were Christians, that Jesus was a Druid, and that the Druids worshipped Jesus centuries before he was even born.
  
  
• Interestingly - unlike every other end of the world writer I've read - Dunstan never mentions Jesus's resurrection (although he makes a lot of the Second Coming) and never talks about spiritual salvation. This would suggest that he thinks that there's no point writing about how to be "saved", and that the resurrection is irrelevant; as such, it implies to me that he believes that the New Jerusalem will be devoted entirely to Anglo-Saxons and Jews, regardless of their actual beliefs and deeds, and that salvation is more a matter of having the right blood than doing the right thing or beieving in the right Jesus.
  
  
• "Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Marx and Stalin were all socialists - what else did they have in common?" (The answer, apparently, is that they were all Satanists.)
  
  
• At the beginning of Genesis, Moses not only propounded the theory of evolution - with greater accuracy than Darwin - he also explained how the Earth formed!
  
  
• Victor Dunstan does not understand how the AD/BC dating system works. He will occasionally show amazement that, say, the Prophet Daniel in 539 BC predicted something that would happen in 604 BC.
  
  
• Victor Dunstan does not understand linguistics. He presents as evidence that David predicted the sexual depravity of the Emperor Tiberius the fact that both David (in the Bible passage that supposedly predicts Tiberius) and Suetonius (writing his history of the Roman Emperors after the fact) used the word "vile" to describe Tiberius - except both individuals were writing in different languages with entirely different origins...
  
  
• Interestingly, he's a post-Tribulationist: he believes that the prophecies of the Tribulation were fulfilled by the Roman sack of Jerusalem. This is in stark contrast to most end-of-the-world kooks.
  
  
• Meanwhile, Islamists will re-establish the Caliphate (ruling it from Baghdad) and even make headway into France. Before Armageddon, however, this bloc will turn Communist and side with the USSR. The Islamic Empire will be the Beast 666 - but the Satanic power controlling the beast will be Communism. Therefore, Karl Marx was the AntiChrist.
  
  
• He asserts that the battle of Armageddon will be fought in Israel, between the Anglo-Saxon Federation and Israel on one side, and the USSR, Ethiopia, Libya, Iran and their allies on the other, and that the USSR would be defeated in it. For some reason, this won't trigger nuclear war, because... erm... well, he doesn't explain that part very well.
  
  
• "The Marxist Socialist will always be prepared to describe any police action designed to protect the innocent as being `Gestapo tactics', whereupon there is a `Public Enquiry' and some old dodderer, having swallowed the bait, shackles the police and brings the day of revolution a stage nearer." In other words, Victor Dunstan supports a brutally strong police force with no oversight whatsoever. Dunstan also has contempt for the idea of civil rights, and generally supports the laws of the Old Testament, both in the economic and criminal spheres; he can be best described as a kind of theocratic Anglo-supremacist socialist.
  
  
• Socialists control the media and the education system in Britain, apparently.
  
  
• Hitler was a follower of Gurdjieff, having been a disciple of the Order of the Green Dragon (along with Rasputin).
  
  
• The Whore of Babylon is the world economic system, which will collapse before Armageddon.