By Louis Fraysse
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The Georgia Guidestones, an enigmatic monument that attracted some 20,000 visitors each year to the United States, were destroyed after a bomb exploded in early July. All sorts of theories circulated about them.
The scene, captured by surveillance cameras, took place on July 6 in the early morning. We see an explosion seriously damaging the “Georgia Guidestones”, strange granite structures erected in 1980 in a field a few kilometers from Elberton, in the State of Georgia, in the United States. The damage forced the authorities to demolish the monument for safety reasons. The attack has not been claimed, and its perpetrator or perpetrators are still on the run – video shows a silver-colored sedan leaving the scene moments after the explosion, but no suspects have so far been apprehended. The mystery remains intact. At first glance, the case hardly seems to go beyond the stage of an anecdote, of a news item. But if we take a closer look, it says a lot about the close intertwining between conspiracy theories and certain evangelical eschatological discourses, and about their ability to lead to…