Apocalypse soon Salon Life: "...Israel's current conflict with Lebanon has set apocalyptic alarms buzzing across the United States. Newsweek, in its Aug. 7 'Beliefwatch' column, asks whether this could be 'the end.' Chuck Raasch, writing in USA Today, worries about 'glimpses of the apocalypse' in the headlines. On July 27, 'Good Morning, America' even brought in 'Left Behind' coauthors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins to comment on the prophetic nature of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.
Meanwhile, Internet chatter has had many citing recent events as evidence that the long-awaited Second Coming of Christ is near. The Rapture Index, a meticulously categorized barometer of end-times activity posted at the popular Web site Rapture Ready, hovers around the mid-150s. (Compare that to its apex of 182, reached in September 2001.) "
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