Like a tweet sent at 4 a.m. by the president, American Horror Story usually leaves us with far more questions than answers. Each week, we’re going to take a deeper look into every question the anthology gore-a-palooza needs to answer. 

Last night, American Horror Story microwaved a guinea pig until it exploded, and I’m as shocked as you are that sentence isn’t an elaborate sexual innuendo. Meanwhile, this season continues to be the exploding household pet of seasons overall, a furry little nugget of an idea that Ryan Murphy and co. reheated repeatedly until they got a pile of blood and guts inside a suburban kitchen. There’s not much actually going on, is what I’m saying...unless, of course, you think this is leading to the end of the world:

Is Oz the Antichrist?

Just based on averages alone, it’s safe to assume any little bespectacled boy with a high-pitched voice in any TV show or film is the Antichrist. In real life, too, if we’re being honest. But the ridiculously named Ozymandias “Oz” Mayfair-Richards? There’s actual evidence there. Credit where credit is due, the idea for this theory comes from writer/AHS-expert Drew Grant, who first posited weeks ago on Twitter, “Oh shit...is Oz the antichrist kid from season 1?”

In addition to the violent ghosts, horrific school shootings, monster babies, kinky gimp suits, and just overall vaguely unsettling presence of Kate MaraAmerican Horror Story: Murder House also casually introduced the idea of an Antichrist, a product of ghost on human intercourse that medium Billie Dean Howard (Sarah Paulson) believed would usher in the end of days. Murder House ended with Jessica Lange’s Constance Langdon adopting one such demon child, who promptly murders a nanny. "Now, whatever am I going to do with you?" Constance asks the adorable three-year old harbinger of the apocalypse.

Is the answer to that question “find a loving lesbian couple to adopt and raise you in suburban Michigan, where you will eventually slaughter your across-the-street-neighbors and lead the masturbating clown uprising following the ascension of The Apprentice host Donald Trump to President of the United States”? It is both figuratively and literally hard to say. But what is definitely clear is that Winter—sent specifically to the Mayfair-Richards household by Kai Anderson—has a keen interest in Oz, most notably the child’s parentage. “They ever tell you about your dad? Everybody has one,” she asked Oz in the first episode.

Is There Any Actual Evidence to Support This?

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Full disclosure: The Bible is pretty much Web M.D. for the apocalypse. Read literally any random passage and you’ll coming away thinking the soup you spilled at lunch is the final sign of the end times. But Cult is definitely hitting all of Armageddon’s greatest hits; darkness blanketing the town, overwhelming paranoia, people being “marked,” the spread of murder, and—every conspiracy theorist’s favorite—entire flocks of birds falling dead from the sky. Don’t believe me? Take it from GOD, who was technically history’s first anonymous source: “If a country sins against me by being unfaithful,” reads Ezekiel 14:13, “and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its people and their animals.” As someone who went to Catholic school for 12 years, I’m comfortable putting an exploding guinea pig under that verse’s umbrella.

But really, if you want a pure definition of the end of days (other than “the greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger film ever made”) look no further than the fearful, violent, neighbor-turning-on-neighbor post-Trump America that this season of AHS is digging into—where marriages are crumbling, Ally is suddenly an unforgivable pariah in the eyes of the entire town, and even lovable little scamp/maybe demon-spawn Oz is turning against his parents—then compare that vision to the Bible’s actual definition:

"There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited…”

So, Then, Who is Kai Anderson?

In this scenario, Evan Peters’ blue-haired and bug-eyed cult leader is just another wackadoodle capitalizing on people’s paranoia and loneliness, which is unfortunately about as “American” as baseball, hot dogs, and those reality shows where people get hit by giant bouncy balls and fall into water. See: Charles Manson, David Koresh, or Jim Jones. As luck would have it, Ryan Murphy confirmed that, in addition to Kai Anderson, Evan Peters will also be playing those exact cult leaders, as well as three more. What those three dudes had in common—besides the fact they are generally insane—is they all preached the upcoming end of the world; Jones because of fascism, Manson because of a race war he named after a Beatles song, and Karesh because of the Book of Revelations.

Ironically, Revelations is where we should end here, because as far a cataclysmic world-ending prophecy where everyone’s skin melts off goes, Revelations is probably the most fun. There’s a dragon! There’s also the “Seven Seals,” a series of scrolls opened one by one before the end times; when the last one is read, the Earth goes the way of The Walking Dead, but probably somehow less depressing. Now, it could just be a coincidence that Cult is the seventh season of American Horror Story, but that fact could also support the theory that this season concludes with the end of the world. On the show, I mean. Not in real life. Or, you know, in real life, too. Either way. It’s like I’ve always said, “I don’t know exactly how the world is going to end, but I know for a fact Emma Roberts is going to be involved.”