Apocalyptic Christian Theology’s Role in Gov Shutdown
Values Voters Summit forces moderate Republicans to face some crushing facts.
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The Myth of the Maya Apocalypse
RD talks to Mark Van Stone, author of 2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, who claims that the real lesson of the Maya is that they showed us how to destroy a civilization by stupidly using up their environment and by not planning for a bad year.
Read MoreGingrich’s Apocalyptic Fantasies, Again
His cross-denominational fearmongering.
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Secular End Times & Apocalyptic ‘Roosters’
In his new book, Richard Landes argues that in addition to the obvious End Timers many secular movements—the French Revolution, Marxism, Nazism—can be better understood as millennialist or apocalyptic.
Read MoreApocalyptic DADT Scenarios Simply Aren’t Happening
When the repeal of DADT was on the table many like John McCain predicted disaster.
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‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons
When the media labels a religious group a “cult,” it fans the flames of intolerance and can endanger the group’s most vulnerable members.
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The Nation of Islam at the End of the Apocalyptic Age?
Has the Nation of Islam, a tradition hinged on separatism, evolved into supporters of the President of the United States? If so, how does that affect the Nation’s ground-up community networks and sociopolitical analysis of American society?
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The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency
Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.
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Baldwin Brother’s Apocalyptic Comic
The Remnant is described as “A supernatural thriller in the vein of 24,” but the title suggests it’ll be more of a Left Behind knock-off…
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