Gullible Christian conservatives believe Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered by President Barack Obama as a human sacrifice to mark the pagan festival of Lupercalia.

Right Wing Watch reports on End Times radio host Rick Wiles discussing “the possible occult connections” to the death of Justice Antonin Scalia on his “Trunews,” program yesterday:

Wiles explained that the “Luciferian” “devil-worshipers” who control the government are out for blood, noting that Lupercalia is observed between February 13 and 15. Scalia’s body was discovered on the 13th. “There’s always human sacrifice involved,” he said, claiming that Scalia was “killed” to mark the beginning of pagan fascism ruling over the U.S. “The 13th was the 44th day of 2016, Obama is the 44th president of the United States,” Wiles said, “so you have this numerology thing taking place.” Wiles said that the assassins who killed the conservative justice “deliberately left the pillow on his face as a message to everybody else: ‘Don’t mess with us, we can murder a justice and get away with it.’ And I assure you, there’s a lot of frightened officials in Washington today, deep down they know, the regime murdered a justice…. This is the way a dictatorial, fascist, police state regime takes control of a nation.” “The day the justice died, the day justice in America died,” he continued, “they got away with it.” Wiles, declaring that he has “a pretty good sniffer for finding crimes” based on gut feelings, said that the “murder” of Scalia proves that “we’re being sucked into a police state where anybody who opposes this regime will be at risk of extermination.” He also speculated that Scalia’s purported assassins put chloroform on the pillow and burned all of the evidence in his hotel room. “Like the Soviet Union in Stalin’s day, it’s like any police state and now we’re in it,” Wiles said. He then speculated that he might be the next victim of Stalinist pagan assassination: “It was a message to everybody out there: ‘Don’t mess with us.’ That’s the message. And it’s a message to people like me.”

Wiles is an idiot. Whether or not he is sincere in his crackpot conspiracy theory is up for debate.

Previously Wiles claimed that an outbreak of Ebola could cure America’s problem with “gays and atheists,” arguing that such an outbreak could be God’s way of solving “America’s problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography and abortion.”

As for crazy Christian conspiracy theories surrounding Scalia’s death, Wiles isn’t the only right wing nut making ludicrous assertions.

Alex Jones from InfoWars also claims Obama had Sacalia killed, arguing that Scalia’s death will be the first in a purge of Christian conservatives, and noting that

Obama wanted to “take out” Scalia in order to push through gun control and introduce socialism to the country.

Even Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump got into the whacky conspiracy theory game. Trump referenced a report from the scene about Scalia’s body when asked on a radio show to comment on the possibility that Scalia may have been murdered and whether there should be an independent investigation into this death.

Appearing on conservative radio host Michael Savage’s show “The Savage Nation,” Trump ominously opined:

They say they found a pillow on his face, which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow.

Trump did not mention a pagan sacrifice or Obama. But there is always tomorrow…