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The theological timeline of The American Antichrist and the Apotheosis of Self-Interest — one pattern of inversion, traced from Genesis to the 2026 dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.
The book's central claim: the Johannine “antichrist” is not a coming world-tyrant but a recurring type that arises from within a tradition, speaks its vocabulary, and empties it of meaning — the counterfeit who wears the name of the thing it destroys. Traced to its philosophical root, that pattern is superbia, the patristic account of Satan’s fall as the refusal of a creature to accept any limit on itself. This timeline follows that pattern's specific American career in full: the theological root; the founding principles themselves, as Madison and Jefferson actually wrote them; slavery's biblical defense; the theology of segregation; the suppression of the vote; the five inversions by which each founding virtue — religious liberty, free speech, equal protection, the consent of the governed, civic virtue and the rule of law — has been turned against itself while keeping its name; and, in the book's own contemporary chapters, the pattern made concrete in a single figure, organized into mass movement, financed by a billionaire theology, and met by a citizen inversion of its own (NAFO's counter-disinformation campaign) that turns the mechanism back on itself. A single architecture of inversion, traced from Genesis to the documented present. Filter by thread to isolate a single strand, or view them together to watch the pattern recur.
The timeline shows the recurrence. The book explains why it recurs — why religious authority, captured by narcissistic egoism, turns with documented regularity against the values of the tradition it claims. This diagnosis has a political and economic sequel: Corpofascism extends the same pattern into philosophy, law, and the documented present.