Word: armageddon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Witnesses now have 700,000 members in 162 countries. "Our numbers have tripled in Poland in the last seven years," he said, "although we are banned and persecuted in all Iron Curtain countries." Witness growth he attributed to the sense of being faced by a "deadline"-the Battle of Armageddon, which Witnesses calculate will take place some time before...
...positive thinking, showed how "pathetic an expedient" it was when it collapsed completely upon Founder Frank B. Robinson's death in 1948. As for the doctrine of the ubiquitous Witnesses: "What response but horror can there be to this conversion of profound myth to lurid legend"-the bloody Armageddon which they eagerly anticipate between 1970 and 1980. The eclecticism of Unity (a self-help faith) and Baha'i (a world brotherhood offshoot of Islam) "amounts to metaphysical and theological hodgepodge. And the history of each involves bitterness and schism that matches anything in the church's story...
Neither Russian saber-rattling nor nervous visions of the onrush of Armageddon impressed the Western leaders who must deal with the stern realities of power. From Oslo Premier Einar Gerhardsen, unmoved by Soviet threats against his nation, fired off a note informing the Russians that Norway's defense was her own business. In Britain Macmillan assured the Labor Opposition that the Christmas Island test would be held. "Those who carry responsibility and perhaps even those who aspire to responsibility must make decisions," he said. "We must rely on the power of the nuclear deterrent, or we must throw...
...face of this gruesome inevitability, the Harvard community must seek ways to ameliorate a condition which only Armageddon can end. Knowing that the bells will not resign themselves to an ornamental quiet, we must search for the only people who know how to control them. Somewhere in Russia, where the bells were cast, there exists, we pray, a sect of monks who are the original trustees of the bells. Either the present Quasimodos of Lowell House must go to these learned men for lessons, or one of the brothers must be persuaded to leave his peaceful retreat. If the monks...
...story because it treats the Old Testament book as prophecy concerning the Essenes' own history; 3) The War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness, which seems to be an account of the end of the world told like a detailed battle plan for Armageddon, and 4) Essene Psalms. Besides these documents, there is the evidence of pick and shovel-the site itself, worked over five times by expeditions since...