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Is The End Nigh? We'll Know Soon Enough (Barbara Bradley Hagerty, NPR)
" She thought she'd go to medical school, until she began tuning in to Family Radio. She and her husband, Joel, lived and worked in New York City. But a year ago, they decided they wanted to spend their remaining time on Earth with their infant daughter. ... Now they are in Orlando, in a rented house, passing out tracts and reading the Bible. Their daughter is 2 years old, and their second child is due in June. Joel says they're spending the last of their savings. They don't see a need for one more dollar."
millenarianism  DNR 
may 2011 by kellyramsey
Charitable Front (Matt Smith, SF Weekly)
"The cult, an umbrella organization based in New York, goes by names such as the Provisional Communist Party and the National Labor Federation, abbreviated as NatlFed. Historically, the stated goal of NatlFed is one that would likely even discomfit the Bay Area liberals the organization targets for recruiting: the violent overthrow of the U.S. government."
religion  social-movements  millenarianism 
january 2010 by kellyramsey
Is God To Blame For America's Collapse? (Ken Layne @ AOL)
"Tim LaHaye, co-author of the "Left Behind" series, told the crowd that the world is very close to coming to a very terrible end, and America's financial collapse is one of the main signs! That is some exciting stuff -- you're not just losing your job and your house and your future, but you won't even need a future, because Jesus is coming back to kill us all."
millenarianism  fhtagn 
february 2009 by kellyramsey
Why Everyone Has Apocalypse Fever (Kurt Andersen, New York Magazine)
"Of course, we have the loons with us always;...But there seem to be more of them now by orders of magnitude (60-odd million “Left Behind” novels have been sold), and they’re out of the closet, networked, reaffirming their fantasies, proselytizing."
millenarianism  religion 
october 2006 by kellyramsey

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