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564: How Rapture Theology Shaped America (Part 2)

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The Popular Dispensationalist Idea of a Tribute

Tim Lahey popularized the idea that there's going to be this tribulation. It doesn't appear in his writings in the early 70s, and then suddenly it's central thing he's talking about in 1980. This is a different politics than you might see today in some sectors of the Christian right. They're creating a new argument for why they should be politically involved.

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