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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House. Popular and gregarious, an unsung parliamentary tactician of confounding skill he blocked a 1971 House vote on the Mansfield Amendment, which called for withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Viet Nam within six months. For all his enthusiasm, however the Illinoisan is frank about G.O.P. problems when they occur. "The way things are going," he said during a low point, "we couldn't put the Ten Commandments into the bill...
Fulton finds that his course, "The Sociology of Death," draws many English, history and philosophy majors eager to experience what he calls "the natural round of life." Because so many deaths in the U.S. now occur in hospitals or nursing homes, young people have no opportunity to experience it firsthand. "The only deaths they are exposed to are in TV dramas, or those in Viet Nam or Bangladesh-never those of average Americans," says Fulton. Another reason for student interest, according to University of Maryland Health Education Professor Daniel Leviton, "is the chance to ventilate their fears about death...
...Post-Millennialists, as they are called, assert that the Second Coming will occur after the Millennium. To them, the Millennium itself is not a personal 1,000-year reign of Christ but rather the golden age of his church under which mankind would know unusual peace and prosperity. In the optimism of the 19th century, when this interpretation was most popular, many Christians felt that they were already in the Millennium. World history since then has convinced most of them otherwise, but a kind of modern Post-Millennialism has recurred among a few theologians who foresee mankind moving toward...
...years of the Millennium are symbolic, either of Christ's eternal heavenly reign or of the period between the First and Second Advents, in which the kingdom of God exists but is only partly realized. Non-Millennialists believe in an actual Second Coming that may occur at any time...
...Millennialists are the most inclined to take prophecies literally. They generally believe that certain events such as Christ's coming will occur before the golden age of his 1,000-year reign on earth. Some, including the "Dispensational" school, hold that a phenomenon called the Secret Rapture (a plucking of God's saints out of the mass of mankind to rule with Christ) will occur before the series of calamities known as the Tribulation. They even have a dashboard sticker that warns passengers: IF I'M RAPTURED, TAKE THE WHEEL...