How old are you?

Buzsaw, this

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The doctrine of an imminent rapture, i.e. that the gathering up of the Christians into heaven has always been imminent, is not consistent with what Jesus, the apostles and the prophets taught. This doctrine began in the early 19th century and has grown to become the prevailing interpretation.

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is in error. The very early christians were waiting for the immediate end of the earth shortly after the Nazereen was executed. In fact, many historians have come to the conclusions that many early christians thought that Nero was the anti-christ. During the middle ages the same belief in an "end of the earth, and imminent rapture" was De rigueur for many apocalyptic christian groups.------------------
"Chance favors the prepared mind." L. Pasteur
Taz

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60 million died at the hands of their own athiest communist governments last century

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You are aware that 1) Stalin was a seminary student prior to the revolution, 2) that it was not just christians but many other religious groups which the communists butchered as well; in fact, the attitudes of the political elite in Russia against non-Russians in different Soviets of the USSR is well documented, and non-christians (i.e. budists, tarks, moslems and jews) from non-Russian soviets bore a disproportionate brunt of the deaths and "political re-education".------------------
"Chance favors the prepared mind." L. Pasteur
Taz