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Time to take Christian end-timers seriously in politics

If not, you may be quietly contributing to the demise of democracy and all the social democratic programs it has created in the past 50 years.

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—Christian end-timers welcome Armageddon and The Rapture that follows for them. If you've ever heard them go beyond defending Israel to hoping for an all out conflagration in the Middle East you could almost be forgiven if you dismissed them as marginal whack-jobs good only for a kind of black humour entertainment.

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Time to take Christian end-timers seriously in politics

If not, you may be quietly contributing to the demise of democracy and all the social democratic programs it has created in the past 50 years.

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—Christian end-timers welcome Armageddon and The Rapture that follows for them. If you've ever heard them go beyond defending Israel to hoping for an all out conflagration in the Middle East you could almost be forgiven if you dismissed them as marginal whack-jobs good only for a kind of black humour entertainment.

  

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