{"id":590,"date":"2017-12-07T12:41:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=590"},"modified":"2017-12-07T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T12:41:05","slug":"david-g-robertson-on-conspiracy-theories-in-heavens-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"David G. Robertson on Conspiracy Theories in Heaven&#8217;s Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Robertson has published a piece over at the blog of CenSAMM, the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millennial Movements, on the\u00a0function\u00a0of conspiracy theories in Heaven&#8217;s Gate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heavensgate.com\/exitsrr.htm\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.heavensgate.com');\">Srrody\u2019s exit statement<\/a>\u00a0claims that those who are fighting \u201cthis or that conspiracy or global plot\u201d are \u201conly seeing the most obvious deceptions\u201d, whereas Heaven\u2019s Gate has given him knowledge of the true \u201cnegative forces\u201d in control of the world &#8211; Luciferian extraterrestrials. As odd as this narrative might seem, it\u2019s in fact identical to William Cooper\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Behold-Pale-Horse-William-Cooper-ebook\/dp\/B007TOGYSC\/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1512477169&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=behold+a+pale+horse\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.amazon.co.uk');\">Behold a Pale Horse<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1991), a foundational text for New World Order conspiracy theorists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/censamm.org\/blog\/heavens-gate-and-millennial-conspiracy-theories-by-david-g-robertson\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/censamm.org');\">You can read the whole thing here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Robertson has published a piece over at the blog of CenSAMM, the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millennial Movements, on the\u00a0function\u00a0of conspiracy theories in Heaven&#8217;s Gate. Srrody\u2019s exit statement\u00a0claims that those who are fighting \u201cthis or that conspiracy or global plot\u201d are \u201conly seeing the most obvious deceptions\u201d, whereas Heaven\u2019s Gate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[75,162,92,161],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-media","tag-censamm","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-david-robertson","tag-heavens-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}