A deceitful shriner

"Age of Deceit" is a Christian fundamentalist and conspiracist film, available for free on Youtube. Its ideas are similar to those of authors Thomas Horn, I.D.E. Thomas, Michael Heiser, Lynn Marzulli, etc. While I found the movie tedious, dishonest and somewhat bizarre, I admit that it does present the views of this particular milieu in a relatively coherent manner.

The main idea is that the New Age and the UFO phenomenon are Satanic deceptions, paving the way for the Anti-Christ. The Anti-Christ will create a One World Government and One World Religion, centred on worship of supposed aliens from outer space. In reality, the "aliens" are literal demons. Alien abductions and channelled messages that deny the Biblical view of Christ are the main pieces of evidence for the evil character of the New Age-UFO phenomenon.

The narrator supports the apocryphal Book of Enoch, identifying the fallen angels with the "aliens". There are also murkier ideas about our sinful nature somehow being literally encoded in the DNA. I didn't bother watching the entire film, but I've read some of the writers referenced above. They claim that the fallen angels mated with human females, giving rise to a race of "giants" known as the Nephilim, who had some kind of alien DNA.

Pictures from the 9/11 attacks, the Bohemian Grove (?) and suspicious quotes from various UN officials suggest a conspiracist worldview, as do references to the Freemasons and the Illuminati.

At several points, the film is either dishonest, or the producers are so "under the ice" that they didn't bother checking their facts. David Spangler is quoted as saying: "No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she makes a pledge to worship Lucifer". The quotation is a hoax. Nor has Spangler ever been employed by the United Nations - at least not as far as I know. Alice Bailey is quoted as supporting Hitler and the Nazis. The quote is taken out of context, and comes from a piece in which Bailey *attacks* Hitler and the Nazis for the very things the movie claims she is supporting!

The most humorous part of "Age of Deceit" comes when the narrator interviews an old Mason who claims to be Lucifer himself. However, it's obvious from context - the narrator's own words and the red fez of "Lucifer" - that the old man is a Shriner. The Shriners are a subdivision of the Freemasons specializing in harmless pranks and practical jokes! In other words, "Lucifer" was only joking. Yet, the narrator fell for it and posted the sensational revelation online?!

"Age of Deceit" might tell us something about a particularly extreme fundamentalist subculture, but I don't think it offers any insight into "fallen angels and the new world order"...