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Is the "Rapture" craze killing us?

C

CalvinOwen

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I read and heard in the news that Wisc. killings were in a church related to "the Charlotte, N.C.-based Living Church of God, a denomination that grew out of a schism in the Worldwide Church of God formed in 1933, that focuses on end-times prophecies."


It is reported that "this year, the group’s leader, Dr. Roderick C. Meredith, wrote that events prophesied in the Bible are 'beginning to occur with increasing frequency.”

Ratzmann, the killer, "himself regularly attended the gatherings at the Sheraton hotel — the Milwaukee-area church group did not have a building of its own. But member Chandra Frazier said he walked out of a recent sermon "sort of in a huff.”

I have followed these "end-time" killings for a while now, the most recent being the mom who drowned her children to keep them from satan's inevitable success in bringing the world to him before the rapture.

Has anyone heard what "this sermon" was on?