“Is Hillary Clinton the Whore of Babylon?”
Thomas Horn, CEO of SkyWatch TV, never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like. He has written more than a dozen books that “expose” conspiracies involving freemasons, the Illuminati, vampires, demons, aliens, the watchers, the Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, popes, and the Mayan calendar.
You can read through the descriptions of his books on Amazon and quickly see that Horn seems to take whatever buzz words he googled that week, stuck them in a blender, and concocted a new conspiracy theory. Throughout his books, he claims to have access to confidential documents, secret meetings with mysterious leaders, and “NEW” information never before seen! Each of these claims remains completely unsupported. You just have to trust him.
Horn is great at creating clickbait. The human mind seeks patterns and connections. That’s why when we look at clouds, we can see kitties and elephants. It is also why this creative pattern-seeking behavior has led to breakthroughs in science and technology. It is also, unfortunately, why we have conspiracy theories. In his book Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco satirizes this phenomenon with his fictional computer that takes random words and creates connections. Horn places random buzz words on a cover and hopes our brain will ask how they are connected? Buy the book and find out. For example, in his book, The Wormwood Prophecy, the cover is adorned with NASA, Donald Trump, and a cosmic cover-up of End-Time Proportions. No statement of fact is made here. These are just random words. However, our brain will read those and decide that NASA and Donald Trump are somehow connected to a cover-up of End-Time prophecies. Depending on your political leanings, you might interpret Donald Trump’s involvement as either aiding the cover-up or trying to expose it heroically.
Try his most recent book. On the cover, it reads, “From Jeffrey Epstein to the Clintons, from Obama and Biden to the Occult Elite, Exposing the Deep-State Actors at War with Christianity, Donald Trump, and America’s Destiny.” Notice there is no claim that any of these people are “deep-state actors” (Libel laws after all), but in our pattern producing minds, we connect all these words and believe that Epstein, the Clintons, Obama, and Biden are occult elites and deep state actors. Horn carefully constructs his book covers to entice us to buy the book and the “revelation” about all these people. The actual content of the book fails to deliver on the cover promise. The book’s content rehashes lots of old conspiracy theories and offers no real evidence for them.
In the book summaries, you can find even more clickbait. Look at the synopsis for Horn’s Wormwood Prophecy description. “Is the Wormwood star from Revelation 8 already headed toward earth? Are NASA and high-level government officials aware of an asteroid that is on a collision course with our planet? Is that why President Trump sanctioned a colossal increase to planetary defense? Do the prophecies from ancient cultures and religions across the globe all point to a catastrophic planetary event that has scientists and politicians taking extreme preventative measures under the public radar?”
Horn isn’t making any statements or claims. He’s just asking questions. By asking a question, it taps into the natural curiosity of the human mind. If you pose a question, our brains want an answer. Our brains want an answer to a question about a possible cover-up.
Worse yet, these kinds of questions provoke fear and anxiety. People will pay out $12.99 to relieve their fear and anxiety. If the earth is going to be hit by an asteroid, I want to know.
The book’s content has little to do with the buzz words on the cover and has more to do with Horn trying to interpret Revelation 8:10-11 to match a dream he claims he had. The technical term for that is eisegesis. You can just call it misinterpreting scripture. 2 Peter 1:20 might apply here. “Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things.”
“Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things.”
2 Peter 1:20
Horn’s blender approach to end-time prophecy can be found in his 2018 question, “Is Hillary Clinton the Whore of Babylon?” He isn’t actually saying she is, but you can bet that every right-winger is drooling at the prospect that Horn can prove she is. Horn takes the conservative hatred against Hillary and puts it into a blender with a Bible phrase, “The Whore of Babylon,” and adds a touch of occultism in the form of L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley, and “The Babylon Working project.”
Horn suggests that Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard performed a series of rituals described in Crowley’s book Moonchild to incarnate Babylon’s archetypal divine feminine. Horn further suggests that Hillary Clinton is the incarnation.
There was a so-called “Babylon Working” project. Parson claims that he and L. Ron Hubbard performed a series of rituals in 1946; however, he also claims that the rituals were a success and that Marjorie Cameron was the incarnation.
So, is Hillary Clinton the Whore of Babylon? Nope, it was Marjorie Cameron. Is the Wormwood star from Revelation 8 already headed toward earth? Nope. The falling star has nothing to do with asteroids. You can check out my sermon on Revelation Chapter eight for an in-context interpretation of what “Wormwood is.”
Tom Horn is a clever writer selling end-time snake oil. Be warned: anyone claiming to have secret information or special revelations needs to make actual claims and support them with evidence. Anyone who uses lots of buzz words and questions that confirm bias or promotes anxiety is trying to sell you something. Christians need to get out of the conspiracy theory business and return to becoming Christ-like.
