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Moderate Christians fight rapture with Sunday school

By Andrea Hopkins

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Real estate agent Dave Eschenbach is an active
member of his church, but he feels uncomfortable around a sizable
portion of U.S. Christians -- those who believe they could be
transported to heaven at any moment.

Several years ago, Eschenbach had a boss who scheduled meetings around
the rapture, the term for an event that around 20 percent of U.S.
Christians believe is imminent.

"One day he announced to the employees that they probably wouldn't be
there next week because of the rapture," Eschenbach said of his former
boss. "His church had decided that the rapture would happen that week."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070313/ts_nm/usa_religion_rapture_dc_2

When asked during the Presidential debates if he believed in
Armageddon, President Reagan said: "Yes, Armageddon could come the day
after tomorrow." - Reagan, Oct. 1984

During his 1980s Presidential campaign, Reagan told Fundamentalist
Christian groups that he believed in the Biblical prophecy of
Armageddon and that this could be the generation that sees Armageddon.

http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/nuclear.htm

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
Bush's Armageddon Obsession, Revisited

by MICHAEL ORTIZ HILL

George W. Bush is certainly the plaything of such forces as the
geopolitics of oil but it seems that he is susceptible to other even
darker archetypal concerns. Let me be blunt. The man is delusional and
the shape of his delusion is specifically apocalyptic in belief and
intent. That Bush would attack so many vital systems on so many fronts
from foreign policy to the environment may seem confusing from the
point of view of realpolitik but becomes transparent in terms of the
apocalyptic worldview to which he subscribes. All systems are supposed
to go down so the Messiah can come and Bush, seemingly, has taken on
the role of the one who brings this to pass.

The Reverend Billy Graham taught Bush to live in anticipation of the
Second Coming but it was his friendship with Dr. Tony Evans that
shaped Bush's political understanding of how to deport himself in an
apocalyptic era. Dr. Evans, the pastor of a large Dallas church and a
founder of the Promise Keepers movement taught Bush about "how the
world should be seen from a divine viewpoint," according to Dr. Martin
Hawkins, Evans assistant pastor.

http://www.counterpunch.org/hill01042003.html
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Aldai Stevenson, former Illinois Governor
and democratic presidential candidate.