End-Time Visions: The Road to Armageddon?
Written by a former cult member, this book catalogs all of the various millenarian and other apocalyptic cults that are out there in a wide variety of countries, as well as some historical cases. The book makes for interesting if somewhat creepy reading, and suggests we will be in for a lot of strange behavior as we approach the millennium.
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