End Time Politics

End Time Politics From the Moral Majority to QAnon

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"From the 1970s until his death in 2007, Jerry Falwell merged American nationalism with an end-times approach to the Bible known as dispensationalism. In the process, he corrupted both, while creating a novel way for conservative Christians to understand current events as the fulfillment of prophecy. He taught that the events of the Cold War had been divinely foretold in the Bible and that America was God's chosen nation in these present "end times." By implementing his conservative economics known as "biblical morality," the country could be "saved" and would survive the coming wrath of God. This message, which was otherwise on the margins of American public life, found resonance in the backlash to the civil rights movement and especially in Ronald Reagan, a fellow believer in the end-times battle of Armageddon. In organizing his voting bloc, the Religious Right, along the lines of dispensationalism and nationalism, Falwell claimed tha

Book information

ISBN: 9781506493909
Publisher: Fortress Press
Imprint: Fortress Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 277.3083
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Weight: 506g
Height: 149mm
Width: 225mm
Spine width: 27mm