https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slack...to-teenagers-in-the-80s-was-child-abuse/

Met with his savior huh...

On one level, the demonstrable wrongness of this book and its thesis is simply funny. The 1980s came and went and none of what Hal Lindsey prophesied came to pass. The Soviet Union did not invade Israel, thereby somehow sparking a war with China, the rebirth of the Roman Empire, the rise of the Antichrist, one-world government, etc. “History as we know it” had, indeed, changed in 1989, but not in anything like the ways that Lindsey had prophesied.

Millions of people took it very seriously on January 1, 1980, when Lindsey assured them that there was no way this decade would end without the Rapture happening. By January 1, 1990, that assurance had come to seem ridiculous — seeming ever-more ridiculous by January 1, 2000, or January 1, 2010, or January 1, 2020.

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