ahead. Many others, conservatives and liberals, have been persuaded by the press and by current events that grim days lie ahead. Such books as Lindsey’s horror story capitalize on this fact.2 The result is that many people become ostensible believers who are in reality buying an insurance policy against disaster or tribulation, an insurance which promises to rapture them out of any such dire event. (One popular preacher assures his listeners that, because of the supposedly imminent rapture, they
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