For years, right-wing pastor Jim Bakker has been using his daily television program to terrify his audience into believing that the End Times are upon us, often for the apparent purpose of selling them products designed to help them survive the apocalypse.
Bakker kicked things up a notch on Tuesday's program, which featured right-wing conspiracy theorist Steve Quayle warning about aliens, demons, trans-dimensional beings, and "diseases that are designed to initiate cannibalism in human beings" and turn them into literal zombies.
The conspiracy theories promoted by Quayle were so pervasive and convoluted that it was difficult to understand exactly what he was even saying, but he seemed to be suggesting that nasal tests for COVID-19 were part of a nefarious plan to obtain DNA samples to be used in the creation of targeted biological weapons that will unleash a disease to turn everyone it does not kill into flesh-eating zombies.
"Zombies that are on the Earth are a disease like any other disease that affects people, and they become like zombies. Is that right?" Bakker asked.
"That's only part of the story," Quayle replied. "Zombies also have the evil spiritual entity known as demon possession."
"The best way to explain zombies' blood lust is this: the appetite of demons expressed through humans," Quayle continued. "It should be astonishing to people that the richest people in the world—not all of them but some of them—are into occult ceremonies where they have to drink blood that's extracted from a tortured child. Now that's sick, but that's the appetite of demons expressed through humans."
"They can induce zombieism, at least the appetite for human flesh," he added. "If this is all wild stuff, why does the military have a manual about it? Why does the CDC even have anything on their [website]? Remember, the Center for Disease Control—or Creation, I call it, that's my opinion. The whole subject of zombies could be just boiled down at one end to a genetically modified human that is no longer human on the level that you and I or a living being is. Then that corpse, that walking—animated, there's a better word, it's not living—an animated corpse is possessed by a demonic entity. That demonic entity has knowledge, it has sentience, it has—how do I say this?—there's a purpose to do nothing else but to destroy."
