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The Road To Armageddon: American Culture And Politics During The Late Cold War, 1970-1991, David Lee Denham Iii
The Road To Armageddon: American Culture And Politics During The Late Cold War, 1970-1991, David Lee Denham Iii
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Bible prophecy has long engaged the American mind. By the late Cold War, Biblical prophecy increasingly shaped the political beliefs of millions of Americans within the evangelical community. The group most impacted were dispensationalist Christians who interpreted the Atomic Age through the lens of end-time prophecies. Dating as far back as the seventeenth-century, American colonists living on the frontier of the British empire in North America embraced millennialism and, at times, interpreted current events through the lens of Bible prophecy while anticipating the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the Battle of Armageddon. Through the centuries, Bible prophecy became a …