Editing Tim LaHaye (section)

===Global conspiracies===
LaHaye believed that the [[Illuminati]] is secretly engineering world affairs.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=McGuire |first1=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/babyloncodesolvi0000mcgu/ |title=The Babylon Code: Solving the Bible's Greatest End-Times Mystery |last2=Anderson |first2=Troy |date=2016 |publisher=Faith Words |isbn=9781455589432 |location=Nashville |pages=22–23 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In ''Rapture Under Attack'' he wrote:<blockquote>I myself have been a forty-five year student of the [[satan]]ically-inspired, centuries-old [[Cabal|conspiracy]] to use government, education, and media to destroy every vestige of Christianity within our society and establish a [[New World Order conspiracy theory|new world order]]. Having read at least fifty books on the Illuminati, I am convinced that it exists and can be blamed for many of man's inhumane actions against his fellow man during the past two hundred years.<ref>Quoted in {{Cite book |last=Versluis |first=Arthur |title=The New Inquisitions: Heretic Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism |date=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195306378 |location=New York |pages=121}}</ref></blockquote>

The Illuminati is just one of many groups that he believed are working to "turn America into an amoral, [[Humanism|humanist]] country, ripe for merger into a [[World government|one-world]] socialist state."  Other [[Secret society|secret societies]] and [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] groups working to destroy "every vestige of Christianity", according to LaHaye, include: the [[Trilateral Commission]], the [[American Civil Liberties Union]], the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]], the [[National Organization for Women]], [[Planned Parenthood]], "the major TV networks, high-profile newspapers and newsmagazines," the [[United States Department of State|State Department]], major foundations ([[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]], [[Carnegie Corporation of New York|Carnegie]], [[Ford Foundation|Ford]]), the United Nations, "the left wing of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]", [[Harvard University|Harvard]], [[Yale]] "and 2,000 other colleges and universities."<ref name="dreyfuss"/>

LaHaye believed that [[political mobilization]] of the [[Christian right]] in voting for Ronald Reagan thwarted the Illuminati, who had been attempting to create a New World Order.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Perry |first=Samuel |date=2020-10-12 |title=Evangelical leaders like Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell Sr. have long talked of conspiracies against God’s chosen – those ideas are finding resonance today |url=https://theconversation.com/evangelical-leaders-like-billy-graham-and-jerry-falwell-sr-have-long-talked-of-conspiracies-against-gods-chosen-those-ideas-are-finding-resonance-today-132241 |access-date=2025-05-25 |website=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]]}}</ref>