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Article: Cult's mass suicide just one sign of the the rising milliennial fervor.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- April 2, 1997
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Heaven's Gate cult leader Do looks out at the world through the video camera with a beyond-the-ether stare and whispers, ``The end of the age, I'm afraid, is right upon us.''
In literature, he refers to the apocalypse as the ``battle in the heavens'' and urges that it is a good time to ``disconnect from the human body'' and proceed to the ``next level.''
While their way of dealing with this Christian scripture is unusual _ suicide _ the idea that we're due for the biblically prophesied end of the world is not.
With 2000 under three years away, for a growing number of religions, mostly conservative Christians, there is a sense that ...