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...they are demonic spirits. . . who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty . . . at the place which is called in Hebrew Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Armageddon and the End Times | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...twists of the 1984 campaign, St. John's apocalyptic vision of the "End Times" emerged last week as a political issue. During the final presidential debate, Panelist Marvin Kalb of NBC asked Ronald Reagan, "Do you feel that we are now heading, perhaps, for some kind of nuclear Armageddon?" While Nancy Reagan gasped, "Oh, no!" to companions, the President answered that, yes, he had chatted with people about "the biblical prophecies of what would portend the coming of Armageddon and so forth, and the fact that a number of theologians for the last decade or more have believed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Armageddon and the End Times | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...with America's adversaries is ultimately futile." The statement was orchestrated by the Christie Institute, a liberal research and action agency, which drew on some enterprising research by Journalists Ronnie Dugger and Joe Cuomo that cited eleven public and private utterances by Reagan on the possible imminence of Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Armageddon and the End Times | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...unnamed but presumed targets of the Christie Institute, Moral Majority Founder Jerry Falwell, dismissed the charges as "a thinly veiled attack on Ronald Reagan by liberal clergymen who have thus far found him invulnerable." Falwell said that he repudiated any "extremist world view which demands a nuclear Armageddon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Armageddon and the End Times | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...specter of Armageddon, according to Coles, does not haunt the ghettos or working-class neighborhoods as it does the Brown campus. Says he: "The children in the ghetto are worried about the next meal, about where they will find work." Concludes Coles: "The nuclear-freeze movement has become all too tied up with upper-middle-class privilege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Concern | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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