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To: jlallen who wrote (42730)	4/22/2005 4:47:16 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Rightwing Religious Nuts need to read this book End-Time Visions : The Road to Armageddon by Richard Abanes "NOT SINCE THE 1978 mass murder-suicide of more than 900 people at Jonestown, Guyana has the world been so keenly aware of end time religious..." (more) SIPs: prophecy pundits, one world government, pole shift Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Abanes, an investigative reporter and director of the Religious Information Center in Southern California, has written a well-researched, highly entertaining, and informative book about the human fascination with apocalyptic events. He asserts that doomsaying prophets throughout history were not only often wrong but spectacularly wrong, and he backs up his conclusions with a tremendous amount of documentation. He covers a great deal of ground: from the nightmare worlds of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and Shoko Asahara, to the biblical battles between Gog and Magog, a scenario that was often used as a prediction that the former Soviet Union "will" invade Israel. Of special note are his investigations into the prophecies of the "sleeping prophet" Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus, whose work, under a clear light, proves unreliable and false. As the millennium approaches, the public's hunger for more books prophecizing the end of history, earth, and time will grow and public libraries will be forced to satiate it with more purchases of such materials. It is therefore paramount that this book also be purchased and be placed among those "end-of-the-world" books as a reasoning and enlightening voice. Highly recommended for public libraries and all collections dealing with the supernatural or the occult.?Glenn Masuchika, Chaminade Univ. Lib., Honolulu Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist "Interestingly, nearly all the faiths now experiencing rapid growth throughout the world promote a common doctrine: at some point in the near future, our world will be destroyed," Abanes says. Writing neatly, footnoting nicely, he visits the world of millenarians and others mining the current doomsday craze, explaining their views and expatiating on their histories. Ordinarily, this might not make entertaining reading, but Abanes' skepticism stands him in good stead in this regard as he enumerates and explains the twisting strands of prophecy and belief of which the fabric of Armageddon is made without ever becoming enamored of them. Thus he produces great stuff for those who want to know the specifics about what happened the other times--1900, 1666, 1000--the end of the earth loomed so clearly for so many. Buy his book now and get a few years' circulation out of it before the world and everything in it become moot points. Mike Tribby See all Editorial Reviews -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product Details Hardcover: 428 pages Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows (May 1, 1998) ISBN: 1568581041 Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6.2 x 9.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds. (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews. (Write a review) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #751,820 in Books (Publishers and authors: improve your sales) Inside This Book New! Concordance \| Text Stats Citations: This book cites 15 books Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover \| Copyright \| Table of Contents \| Excerpt \| Index \| Back Cover Search Inside This Book: