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Article: A WRITER AT LARGE: Apocalypse Soon Israel's occupation of the West Bank has no stronger supporters in the United States than the evangelicals of the Christian Coalition. But for them it's just another step in the run-up to Christ's Second Coming. JOHANN HARI visits the Holy Land with some of the millions of Americans looking forward to the end of the world
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2003
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This is where the armies of the world will gather." Tracey Ammons,
a senior player in America's huge Christian political scene, is
talking in a hushed voice. "This is where the Apocalypse will wreck
this planet. It's going to be a bloody mess, yessir. Blood's gonna
run up to the horses' necks for 200 miles around, and everybody here
is gonna wish they had been taken in the Rapture. Course, we won't be
here, thank the Lord. He'll have taken us up to a better place."
The 10-strong group nods their agreement. "Praise Jesus," a few
mutter. We are standing in Megidoh, in the north of Israel. Two
thousand years ago, St John wrote in the Book of Revelation that this
patch of the Levant, now a ...