Anything they wrote or said that might lead you to believe that there is actually this connection, beyond pure supposition? 'Beyond the Reach of God' is at least in the right vein, though there are two teensy weensy difficulties (i.e. it's completely useless to your argument). First, the fellow who wrote it was never Christian, so Christian Millenarianism wouldn't be ingrained into him. Second, 'Beyond the Reach of God' doesn't aim itself back into religion and less still Revelations-style religion. 'Let's build a tool that makes life fair' is completely crosswise to any religious teaching. [...] Yes, and they are obviously related due to all being substantially the same thing - heck, they share their NAME. Having opposite philosophical conclusions is a good reason to cut off a particular line of reasoning that someone generated an idea by pattern-matching to an existing narrative, in the absence of any other evidence that they did so besides a mediocre pattern-match. I didn't claim it was a general disproof. When you have two ideas that are: called differently, they claim no common origin, one came from revelation while the other from reasoning presented publicly, one claims certainty while the other claims uncertainty, one is a moral claim while the other is a factual claim, one is supernatural and the other is materialistic... and, the connections between them are that they both claim to accomplish several highly desirable things like: raising the dead and keeping people alive forever, and doing so for all the world... the high desirability of these things mean that multiple people would aim to accomplish them, so aiming to accomplish them does not indicate shared origin!