Edited by author 12-05-2005 03:09 PM
Well, if you wanted to make it a sequel to "The Da Vinci Code", you'd have to put your satanists in the Vatican... at which point, someone might tell you that an erstwhile Jesuit named Malachi Martin already wrote that novel, and claimed while alive that there was a basis for it in fact. There have also been fictional U.S.-based treatments of the theme of "immanentizing the eschaton" in Illuminatus! (of course), and Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons, at least.

As to America in "real life", or the simulation thereof we may be inhabiting... well, I'm no expert on either christian or satanist doctrine, but the teachings of "The Family", as described in Jesus plus Nothing, strike me as having more in common with what little satanic writing I've read than they have with, say, the Sermon on the Mount.

Two more pieces of food for thought, btw:

*) The minister saying on national TV that we need to defend Christmas (whatever that means) because "Jesus wants people to spend money".

*) The hints of ritual aspects to torture of Iraqi prisoners.

Your hypothesis is hard to test, but I'm not aware of any evidence convincingly refuting it...

Late edit: One more note: one of the creepier bits about "the family" is how they actually shy away from the label "Christian". What they say about that, at least to low-level initiates, is that it's just not inclusive enough...