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'title'    => 'Revelation codes imperial violence through beast imagery and 666',
            'summary'  => 'The beast is tied to persecuting empire, public loyalty, and symbolic numbering before later readers project it onto every new gadget.',
            'category' => 'empire',
            'tags'     => array('nero', 'gematria'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => '2nd-4th centuries',
            'title'    => 'Church fathers fuse local deceivers with a singular final tyrant',
            'summary'  => 'Early interpretation begins blending Johannine antichrists, the man of lawlessness, and apocalyptic beasts into one composite enemy figure.',
            'category' => 'church',
            'tags'     => array('patristics', 'composite enemy'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => 'Late antiquity',
            'title'    => 'Rome and Nero become templates for beastly power',
            'summary'  => 'Imperial violence gives later readers a durable script for persecution, counterfeit worship, and total rule.',
            'category' => 'empire',
            'tags'     => array('empire', 'persecution'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => '10th century',
            'title'    => 'Medieval Europe systematizes the Antichrist biography',
            'summary'  => 'Standardized lives of the Antichrist turn scattered motifs into a fuller narrative of deception, counterfeit miracles, and final conflict.',
            'category' => 'church',
            'tags'     => array('medieval synthesis', 'legend'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => '12th-13th centuries',
            'title'    => 'Reforming movements multiply antichrist identifications',
            'summary'  => 'Apocalyptic reform energy spreads the label across rival authorities, showing how easily the concept becomes a polemical weapon.',
            'category' => 'church',
            'tags'     => array('reform movements', 'polemic'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => '16th century',
            'title'    => 'Reformers turn the label against the papacy',
            'summary'  => 'The Antichrist becomes an institutional accusation, revealing how theology and political legitimacy can collapse into one polemical weapon.',
            'category' => 'church',
            'tags'     => array('papacy', 'reformation'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => '17th-18th centuries',
            'title'    => 'Confessional conflict keeps the accusation alive',
            'summary'  => 'Post-Reformation preaching and pamphleteering preserve antichrist rhetoric as a way to police religious boundaries and national loyalties.',
            'category' => 'church',
            'tags'     => array('confessional conflict', 'pamphlets'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => '19th century',
            'title'    => 'Dispensational timelines systematize the future villain',
            'summary'  => 'Modern prophetic systems reorganize the archive into charts, stages, and countdown expectations that can be endlessly updated.',
            'category' => 'church',
            'tags'     => array('dispensationalism', 'timelines'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => '19th-20th centuries',
            'title'    => 'Modern strongmen inherit the role',
            'summary'  => 'Napoleon, fascists, and other totalizing rulers are read through the old script, showing how prophecy mirrors political fear.',
            'category' => 'authoritarian',
            'tags'     => array('dictatorship', 'charisma'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => 'Mid-20th century',
            'title'    => 'Global governance becomes a new stage for apocalyptic suspicion',
            'summary'  => 'Cold War institutions, world-government fears, and one-world rhetoric widen the target from one ruler to networked systems.',
            'category' => 'authoritarian',
            'tags'     => array('globalism', 'cold war'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => 'Late 20th century',
            'title'    => 'Mass-media prophecy turns technology into panic',
            'summary'  => 'Barcodes, chips, and cashless systems are repeatedly cast as the mark whenever social change outruns inherited categories.',
            'category' => 'technology',
            'tags'     => array('mark of the beast', 'consumer panic'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => 'Early 21st century',
            'title'    => 'Surveillance and identity rails renew apocalyptic concern',
            'summary'  => 'Biometrics, platform governance, and access control make old questions about buying, selling, and permission feel structurally relevant again.',
            'category' => 'technology',
            'tags'     => array('surveillance', 'identity systems'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => '2010s',
            'title'    => 'Platform ranking normalizes algorithmic mediation',
            'summary'  => 'Feeds, recommendations, and invisible scoring accustom the public to black-box systems that shape visibility, trust, and access.',
            'category' => 'algorithmic',
            'tags'     => array('platforms', 'ranking'),
        ),
        array(
            'year'     => 'Present threshold',
            'title'    => 'Algorithmic authority becomes the new frontier',
            'summary'  => 'AI raises a fresh version of the old question: what happens when judgment, charisma, and access are governed by opaque systems no priest fully explains?',
            'category' => 'algorithmic',
            'tags'     => array('AI', 'black-box power'),
        ),
    );
}

/**
 * Claim-verdict groupings used by the fact-check layer.
 *
 * @return array<string, array<string, string>>
 */
function antichrist_engine_foundation_claim_verdicts()
{
    return array(
        'textual-anchor' => array(
            'label'       => 'Textual Anchor',
            'description' => 'Claims with the strongest footing in the earliest textual evidence rather than later spectacle.',
        ),
        'recurring-projection' => array(
            'label'       => 'Recurring Projection',
            'description' => 'Claims that keep reappearing by attaching old fear scripts to new objects, dates, or technologies.',
        ),
        'institutional-polemic' => array(
            'label'       => 'Institutional Polemic',
            'description' => 'Claims forged inside struggles over legitimacy, church power, or civilizational identity.',
        ),
        'archetypal-pattern' => array(
            'label'       => 'Archetypal Pattern',
            'description' => 'Claims that work best as recurring patterns of charisma, crisis, and counterfeit salvation.',
        ),
        'emerging-structural' => array(
            'label'       => 'Emerging Structural Question',
            'description' => 'New problems where the strongest insight comes from systems analysis rather than proof-text certainty.',
        ),
    );
}

/**
 * Evidence-level labels used across the fact-check layer.
 *
 * @return array<string, array<string, string>>
 */
function antichrist_engine_foundation_claim_evidence_levels()
{
    return array(
        'high' => array(
            'label'       => 'High confidence',
            'description' => 'Grounded in strong textual or historical evidence.',
        ),
        'medium' => array(
            'label'       => 'Context dependent',
            'description' => 'Useful when framed historically or structurally rather than as a single final proof.',
        ),
        'emerging' => array(
            'label'       => 'Emerging inquiry',
            'description' => 'The question is important, but the evidence remains contemporary, incomplete, or evolving.',
        ),
    );
}

/**
 * Searchable claim dossiers for recurring prophecy narratives.
 *
 * @return array<int, array<string, mixed>>
 */
function antichrist_engine_foundation_claim_dossiers()
{
    return array(
        array(
            'title'      => 'Many antichrists, not only one',
            'category'   => 'texts',
            'summary'    => 'The earliest biblical usage points to multiple deceivers and doctrinal fracture rather than a single modern celebrity villain.',
            'history'    => 'This reading anchors the term in the Johannine epistles and keeps attention on internal corruption.',
            'diagnostic' => 'Ask whether the current discussion is ignoring the plural, present-tense warning in favor of spectacle.',
            'status'     => 'Textual anchor',
            'verdict'    => 'textual-anchor',
            'evidence'   => 'high',