The New World Order (Robertson book)

The New World Order

Author	Pat Robertson
Language	English
Subject	Religion, Politics and State
Genre	Religion
Publisher	Thomas Nelson, Incorporated
Publication date	1991
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	319
ISBN	9780849909153
LC Class	D860.R64 1991

The New World Order is a book authored by Pat Robertson, published in 1991 by Word Publishing. In the book, Robertson purports to expose a behind-the-scenes Establishment with enormous power controlling American policy, whose "principal goal is the establishment of a one-world government where the control of money is in the hands of one or more privately owned but government-chartered central banks." ^{[1] : 96} This conspiracy includes such elements as the Illuminati, the New Age movement, the Freemasons, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. Robertson further claims that the rise of this one-world conspiracy is being guided by Satan to fulfill the predictions of premillennial Christian eschatology, viewing it as a sign that the end times are nearing.

Indeed, it may well be that men of goodwill like Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and George Bush, who sincerely want a larger community of nations living at peace in our world, are in reality unknowingly and unwittingly carrying out the mission and mouthing the phrases of a tightly knit cabal whose goal is nothing less than a new order for the human race under the domination of Lucifer and his followers. ^{[1] : 37}

The book reached the New York Times Best Seller List and was "heavily promoted" by Robertson's Christian Coalition. ^[2]

Reviews

The book made the news in 1995 when its potential anti-Semitic bias was critiqued in The New York Review of Books , which stated, "Not since Father Coughlin or Henry Ford has a prominent white American so boldly and unapologetically blamed the disasters of modern world history on the machinations of international high finance in general and on a few influential Jews in particular." ^[3] The Anti-Defamation League then requested Robertson to denounce the concept of a "worldwide Jewish conspiracy", to which Robertson responded in a statement to the New York Times, "I deeply regret that anyone in the Jewish community believes that my description of international bankers and use of the phrase 'European bankers' in my book refers to Jews". ^[4]

In a critical review of the book, Ephraim Radner wrote, "Lind and Heilbrun show how Robertson took over—in some cases word for word—well-worn theories of a Jewish conspiracy. In particular, Robertson relied on the work of Nesta Webster and Eustace Mullins." ^[5]

Robertson's work was described as a "catch all for conspiracy theories" by the Christian academic Don Wilkey: "A summary of Robertson's book is found on page 177 in which Pat says a conspiracy has existed in the world working through Freemasonry and a secret Order of the Illuminati, a group combining Masons and Jewish Bankers." ^{[6] [ self-published source? ]}

See also

• New World Order (conspiracy theory)
• New world order (politics)

References

1. Robertson, Pat (1991). The New World Order . Word Publishing. ISBN   9780849933943 – via Internet Archive.
2. Isikoff, Michael (October 10, 1992). "The Robertson Right and the Grandest Conspiracy". The Washington Post .
3. Lind, Michael (February 2, 1995). "Rev. Robertson's Grand International Conspiracy Theory". The New York Review of Books . Vol. 42, no. 2. ISSN   0028-7504 . Retrieved February 11, 2025.
4. Niebuhr, Gustav (March 4, 1995). "Pat Robertston Says He Intended No Anti-Semitism in Book He Wrote Four Years Ago". New York Times . Retrieved February 10, 2025– via Gale General OneFile.
5. Radner, Ephraim (September 13, 1995). "New World Order, Old World Anti-Semitism". The Christian Century . Vol. 112, no. 26.
6. Wilkey, Don. "New World Order by Pat Robertson". Archived from the original on January 24, 2010. Retrieved December 11, 2006.