For North, there's no better way to pull the plug on an ungodly society than fanning the flames of Y2K panic.

"He wants to make sure the banking system crashes. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy," Clarkson says.  Out of this wreckage, North and many other Christian Reconstructionist men hope to build a harsh biblical order where sinners, such as adulterers and gay men, can be severely punished, even executed, preferably by stoning.

"Female homosexuality, or lesbianism, is a manifestation of the same evil as the masculine form, but the death penalty is reserved for the men," wrote R. J. Rushdoony, North's father-in-law, in The Institutes of Biblical Law.  North contributed an appendix on Christian economics to the 1973 treatise, which laid the intellectual foundation for the reconstructionist movement.
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What will the Internet's best-known doomsayer do if Y2K results in just minor disruptions? "A few years later he'll reappear with another apocalyptic scenario," Berlet predicts.