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Strangelove's Doomsday: fiction meets facts

craven_morhead — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:32:27 -0800

Dr. Strangelove's Doomsday device may be more fact than fiction. We've had doomsday stories here before, but what if dead hand control of nuclear devices is real? Perhaps live-hand control is better. You could always try your hand at a nuclear apocalypse.

Attack on Nazareth church by mentally ill man sparks riot

hwestiii — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:01:48 -0800

Truth slightly more plausible than fiction

Eschatological News

hairyeyeball — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:34:16 -0800

War in Babylon has evangelicals seeing Earth's final days, reports the SF Chron. End-Time Interpreters See Apocalyptic Meaning in Iraq War, reports Belief Net. End-times radio from End-Times.com. Israel's End-Time Gamble, from World Net Daily. Jimmy Carter notes that a stance against war is

an almost universal conviction of religious leaders, with the most notable exception of a few spokesmen of the Southern Baptist Convention who are greatly influenced by their commitment to Israel based on eschatological, or final days, theology.

Factoid:

The Southern Baptist Convention has more churches (over 37,000) in the United States than any other religious body — even more than the Catholic Church.