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| “ | Christians have faced more oppression and erasure in recent years than ever before. And the world has paid for it. Storms, terrorists, increased violence, confusion among young people, so-called gender politics, the dark world of social media, infanticide, men and women choosing to turn their noses up at God by indulging in same-sex relationships,' forsaking God, blaspheming, at every turn. We are lost. And what has God done every time we've lost our way? What does he do in the Bible again and again? | „ |
| ~ Reverend Ansel demonstrating his hateful views. |
Reverend Don Ansel is the main antagonist of the 2024 sci fi horror novel American Rapture written by C.J. Leede. He is a social media influencer who is the leader of a cult called the "St. Michael's Crusaders."
Biography[]
Not much is known about Ansel's early life before he became a reverend. What is known, however, is that he is an extremely prejudiced man who believes that the United States had fallen from grace due to its normalizing of homosexuality, abortion, and other topics that he was vehemently against. He would later make a social media account where he would gain thousands of followers.
When a mutation of the virus for SARS spreads throughout the United States nicknamed "Sylvia," Ansel views it as being indicative of God's divine judgment against sin and forms a cult called the St. Michael's Crusaders and threatens to attack any facility that was distributing the vaccine for Sylvia as that would be impeding God's will.
The Crusaders first attack a high school at Bright Beginnings since they were distributing the vaccine. This leads to massive chunks of the school getting burned with many people being endangered by the flames. Sophie Allen and her group manage to escape their close encounter with the cult and manage to evade them. The Crusaders would appear once again when the protagonists go to the Ho-Chunk Casino complex in Wisconsin and they resume their mass burning with several deaths including those of Maro; Cleo; Wyatt and Sophie's adopted pet dog Barghest.
The story concludes with Sophie and her love interest Ben being the sole survivors who go out on a journey to meet Sophie's twin brother. What happens to Ansel afterward is uncertain, but the book cryptically states that the Crusader movement was still spreading.