On Mon, 30 May 2011, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:42 -0400, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
> > It's true. If you find a copy of the World Radio-TV Handbook (WRTH),
> > perhaps the largest US entry and one of the largest in the book, is that
> > of Family Radio; in this country they br
I have no idea what to make of this story, other than that we're through the
looking glass.
PC candidate's privates appear on Twitter
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/29/pc-candidates-privates-appear-on-twitter
Rookie PC candidate George Lepp says he?s embarrassed that a photo of his
family je
I'm sorry. This kind of broad generalization and religious stereotyping is
woefully inaccurate, unwarranted and unnecessary.
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On May 30, 2011, at 11:28 AM, na...@earthlink.net wrote:
> hey, all, got only a second to comment on neo-cons: remember it is a
> specific tendency of former social
m.reinsboro...@qub.ac.uk (Sun 05/29/11 at 09:34 PM +0100):
> does anyone have more info on this Rapture dynamic that happened in USA.
> is it true that a surprisingly large number of people in the USA belief
> in "rapture"
Current evangelical ideas about the rapture are only the latest incarnatio
On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:42 -0400, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> It's true. If you find a copy of the World Radio-TV Handbook (WRTH),
> perhaps the largest US entry and one of the largest in the book, is that
> of Family Radio; in this country they broadcast all over the shortwave
> spectrum, drowning ou
hey, all, got only a second to comment on neo-cons: remember it is a
specific tendency of former socialists, almost uniformly jewish east
coast (NY) intellectuals become right-wing cold war policy hawks.
Hence no christian rapture.
Neo cons (cf David Brooks, their bastard child) wouldn't hesi
I agree with Dave -- and in answer to Michael's original question, would say
that while there does seem to have been a small (small!) minority of people who
gave up their regular lives to prep for Rapture, this became a big story more
because of the media's willingness to fetishize it than anyth
It's true. If you find a copy of the World Radio-TV Handbook (WRTH),
perhaps the largest US entry and one of the largest in the book, is that
of Family Radio; in this country they broadcast all over the shortwave
spectrum, drowning out other stations. They have to have a huge amount of
money fo
The book, When Prophesy Fails, by Leon Festinger (sp?) is an influential
account of a UFO contactee cult expecting something like a 'rapture'. For some
sociologists, it
is a definitive study in dealing with cognitive dissonance in the face of
failed predictions.
Evangelical Christians tend to b
Hi Patrice--
I think you're giving these people more credit than they deserve. The Neocons,
whatever you think of their politics, are a pretty sophisticated bunch. The
idea of the Rapture is generally associated with a crackpot (albeit growing)
group of Bible Belt fundamentalists from a whole d
> does anyone have more info on this Rapture dynamic that happened in
> USA. is it true that a surprisingly large number of people in the
> USA belief in "rapture"
>
The 'rapture' monicker (in) itself is fairly old hat in the US, I
remember it was a recurrent theme during Reagan's presidency,
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