ProphecyFilm.com

{{Christianity}}{{Internet}}{{cquote|The amount of fools in this world who commit [[sex]]ual sins inside and outside of marriage are innumerable. Sad to say, they could all have increased their chances of reaching [[Heaven]] by refusing to marry and indulging in their [[sin]]ful sexual pleasure. But since their heart was set on earthly and perishable things, and they did not marry for an honorable and pure cause, [[God]]’s justice also demands that they shall perish with the dead and rotting bodies that they loved more than they loved Him; which was the filth and stinking treasure of their vile hearts.|||from an [[tldr|enormous screed]] on catholic-saints.net<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190808193438/http://www.catholic-saints.net/sexual-pleasure-and-procreation/#Chastity:The-Angelic-Virtue Sexual Pleasure, the Various Sexual Acts, and Procreation]. Archived from catholic-saints.net, 8 August 2019.</ref>}}
'''ProphecyFilm.com''', '''DoomsdayTube.com''', '''Catholic-Saints.net''', and '''SaintBirgitta.com''' were a set of mostly identical [[sedevacantism|sedevacantist Catholic]] [[webshite]]s run by [[Traditionalist Catholicism|Traditionalist Catholics]] Markus Elias Talani, Krystian Manczak, and Ville Veikko Hietanen in [[Sweden]]. The webshites and their accompanying video dumping grounds specialized in sensationalist fearmongering and spreading batshit insane [[fundamentalist Christian]] beliefs. They created several [[YouTube]] channels that spread [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]], the coming apocalypse (especially before [[2012 apocalypse|2012]]), [[Hell]] (via disturbing images ripped off from horror movies), why [[Creationism|evolution is wrong and God created everything]], and other [[bullshit]].

Their message was similar to [[Most Holy Family Monastery]], another radical sedevacantist Catholic sect, but they viewed Most Holy Family Monastery as a heretic cult.

The sites gained some attention from other fundamentalists in 2008. They pissed off [[Protestants]] by promoting the claim that salvation was through works and not faith alone. 

At least one of the people responsible for all this blather appeared to soften his radical beliefs in a 2019 blog post.<ref>[https://against-all-heresies-and-errors.blogspot.com/2019/08/why-i-no-longer-reject-vatican-ii-or-the-traditional-priests-or-receiving-sacraments-from-them.html Why I no Longer Reject Vatican II and the Traditional Catholic Priests or Receiving Sacraments from Them (On Baptism of Desire, Baptism of Blood, Natural Family Planning, Una Cum etc.)] "Jerome" on blogspot, 16 August 2019.</ref> 

All the spammy webshites have since disappeared from the internet, though some video dumping grounds remain online.<ref>[https://vimeo.com/prophecyfilmcom/ ProphecyFilm.com on Vimeo]. Warning! Disturbing content.</ref>

==Origins==

The fundamentalists behind this array of awful webshites appear to have started out rather innocuously with saintbirgitta.com, which presented writings of the Swedish Catholic mystic {{wpl|Bridget of Sweden||.}}<ref>[https://archive.ph/TFwzj The Revelations of Saint Bridget (Birgitta) of Sweden]. Archived from saintbirgitta.com, 10 May 2008.</ref> This site quickly devolved into an [[Haig's Law|ugly Web 1.0 monstrosity]] of [[fundamentalist]] religious [[extremism]], complete with all sorts of multimedia, religious trinkets and other crap for sale, and begging for donations, backed up by dozens of screeds foaming and frothing about any other religious institution except for their own narrow-minded hate-filled worldview.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090525113234/http://www.prophecyfilm.com/ prophecyfilm.com]. Archived on 25 May 2009.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100830190008/http://www.doomsdaytube.com/videos.php doomsdaytube.com videos ]. Archived on 30 August 2010.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100531214517/http://www.catholic-saints.net/ catholic-saints.net]. Archived on 31 May 2010.</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/HlUS saintbirgitta.com]. Archived from saintbirgitta.com, 30 May 2012.</ref> The mirror sites doomsdaytube.com, catholic-saints.net, and prophecyfilm.com were created about the same time.<ref>[https://archive.ph/DqJ2F doomsdaytube.com]. Archived on 9 May 2013.</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/ayHAI catholic-saints.net]. Archived on 9 May 2013.</ref><ref>[https://archive.ph/Ug1I1 prophecyfilm.com]. Archived on 30 June 2013.</ref>

==Beliefs==
ProphecyFilm.com appeared to have a mix of Traditionalist Catholic, [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]], and fundamentalist beliefs mixed with insane conspiracy theories. Among the batshit crazy beliefs are:
*[[Jesus]] spoke more about Hell than he did about [[Heaven]] (a common belief among fundies).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100704165018/http://www.doomsdaytube.com/scary-hell.php</ref>
*Women were created with a specific purpose: [[Kinder, Küche, Kirche|some vague as fuck thing about roles and that men cannot take these roles.]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100601005543/http://www.catholic-saints.net/vanity/</ref>
*[[Geocentrism]] (No, really. They even retract statements that implied that the [[Earth]] is not the center of the [[Universe]]).<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frM_jY7bK0Y</ref><ref group=note>They did a video about Nibiru that used images of the [[Solar System]] and then typed this in the description: "At 2:18 min in this video, the screen text talks about Nibiru as a "Homeworld". By this we do not mean that Nibiru is a habitable planet with creatures living on it. We do not agree with any images or texts in this video that depict and/or talk about a moving/spinning Earth. We believe the Earth is the center of the universe and that the [[Sun]] and [[planet]]s orbit around the Earth (although the other planets orbit the sun as they orbit the Earth)." If that last sentence [[Occam's Razor|made your head hurt]], don't worry, you're not alone.</ref>
*[[God]] doesn't create people [[homophobia|with homosexual desires, they become gay because they "chose it" or are sinful.]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130806202441/http://www.catholic-saints.net/homosexuality/</ref>
*[[Planet X]] and/or [[Nibiru]] are real and fulfill [[Biblical prophecies|Bible prophecy]].
*The [[Freemason|Freemasons]], [[Illuminati]], and [[Satan]] are trying to bring about a [[New World Order]].
*The mainstream [[Roman Catholic Church]] has been hijacked by [[Communism|communists]] and [[Freemason|Freemasons]] because… [[Red-baiting|reasons]].<ref>http://prophecyfilm.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-whole-truth-about-vatican-ii.html</ref>
*[[Ghost|Ghosts]] and [[extraterrestrial|aliens]] are real and might actually be [[demon|demons]].<ref>http://prophecyfilm.blogspot.com/2015/03/aliens-ufos-demonic-activity-and-hoaxes.html#Demonic_Activity_&_Elaborate_Hoaxes_Meant_to_Deceive_Mankind</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100601012850/http://www.catholic-saints.net/ghosts/</ref>
*[[Creationism]] (duh). In fact, a lot of [[PRATT|PRATTs]] about creationism/"[[intelligent design]]".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20130806202435/http://www.catholic-saints.net/evolution/</ref>
*Quite a massive distaste for "[[secular]]" [[Mainstream media|media]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100601005527/http://www.catholic-saints.net/media-violence/</ref>
*Some obvious [[atheophobia]]
*Condoning [[exorcism]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100610061924/http://www.doomsdaytube.com/exorcism-possession-haunting.php#Real-Exorcisms-Of-Demon-Possessed-Caught-On-Tape</ref>
And many others…

==Conspiracy mongering==
Despite being a mostly hardcore religious [[webshite]], ProphecyFilm.com (especially back in its saintbirgitta.com days) mostly spread a number of conspiracy theory-themed videos, mostly involving the typical NWO, Illuminati, and [[Knights Templar]] shit mixed with [[UFOs]], [[FEMA concentration camps]], and especially [[2012 apocalypse]] shit with a side of Nibiru. They likely still did their fearmongering of Hell and random Christian stuff, but it was overshadowed by their strange obsession with conspiracy theories, which often led to full one-hour videos on this shit, which often did overlap with the fundie madness i.e. entire discussions about the [[RFID]] chips as the [[Mark of the Beast]] followed by [[Satanic ritual abuse]] fuckery relating to [[Backward masking|playing rock records backwards]] and other nutty [[brainwashing]]-related stuff. The long videos were often cut into shorter 10-minute clips of conspiracy mongering, often with [[clickbait]]y titles and entire segments of a still image (often used as the thumbnail) that actually contain religious content. Occasionally they'd post plagiarized content about creationism that often used nutty arguments that often involved ridiculing the claims of [[evolutionary biologists]] and [[cherry picking]] quotes, as well as [[Style over substance|random gags]].

At some point (presumably after 2012) they appeared to tone down the conspiracy stuff and began focusing on the religious [[crankery]] such as the latest thing Popes [[Pope Benedict XVI|Benedict XVI]] and [[Pope Francis|Francis]] were up to and accusing them of being [[antipope|antipopes]].

==Disturbing content==
ProphecyFilm.com had a tendency towards traumatizing and disturbing content, especially in their videos about Hell and [[sin]]. They have put out multiple videos with audio of sermons talking about Hell (often plagiarized audio from a Most Holy Family Monastery video) with creepy music (usually "Lux Aeterna" by Clint Mansell or "28 Theme" by John Murphy)<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVIRcnlRKF8 (“Lux Aeterna” from "Requiem for a Dream")</ref> <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190523022245/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-f5RuVAey8 ("28 Theme" from "28 Weeks Later")</ref> and disturbing images taken from several films, including horror films like the Hellraiser and Final Destination franchises, a few Saw clips, and the melting scene from The Cube. The videos' terrifying nature is such that even Most Holy Family Monastery called them out on it.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dykhu5jIyBE/</ref> When an anti-Semitic hate group calls out your bullshit, you know you’ve done something wrong.

==Retractions?==
Around 2019, it appears that the webshites' creators (or at least Ville Hietanen) have changed their minds on certain bits of information, including their conspiracy mongering and Traditionalist Catholic/Sedevacantist beliefs.

They appear to have rejected most of their ideas about homosexuality, salvation outside of the Church, and even asked [[Barack Obama]], [[George W. Bush]], and the post-"Vatican II" popes for forgiveness for depicting them as evil monsters who plan to rule the world in their older conspiracy-oriented videos. It also appears they have retracted some of their earlier crank beliefs like geocentrism and the Nibiru stuff, so that's at least something.

==See also==
*[[Most Holy Family Monastery]]
*[[Traditionalist Catholicism]]
*[[Sedevacantism]]
*[[Mel Gibson]]
*[[Crank magnetism]]
*[[Jesus Is Savior]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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