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564: How Rapture Theology Shaped America (Part 2)

The Holy Post

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The Humanist Tribute to Justify Reengaging With Politics

Tim LaHaye is someone who is deeply tied in the dispensationalist world. His dad dies when he's young and he talks about thinking about meeting his dad after he's raptured. So this is sort of a deep emotional belief that he has as a kid. He ends up going to Bob Jones University, which has a complicated relationship with dispensationalism. The pre tribulation tribulation gives you are that the actual rapture is not actually imminent.

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