Sep 15 2009

The Potential of Totalism

In Chapter 7, “The Problem of Endism,” Strozier concludes, “Social crisis, or a big war, or a disaster like nuclear terrorism could transform the [fundamentalist] movement overnight into a  potent and active apocalyptic force, and so transform the American political and social landscape” (Strozier 166). America, as a Christian nation, and more importantly, as the […]

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Sep 14 2009

Come, Let’s All Die Together (yay?)

Until a few years ago I laughed at the words, “don’t drink the Kool Aid.” Although I did not understand the reference, I imagined what it could mean. In my mind I had created stories of someone slipping GHB or disgusting bodily fluids into an, otherwise, normal glass of Kool Aid. It was only after […]

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