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Ronald Reagan was an enthusiastic believer in apocalyptic dipensationalist theology, which he could knowledgeably discuss with the best-known leaders, such as Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, {White House Ronald Reagan Presidential Library via Wiiimedia Commons}
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Even a mild degree of fatalism about the inevitability of Armageddon in the nuclear age is dangerous. A 2010 Pew Foundation poll found that more than a third of Americans believe that Jesus will return in their life-time, and most of these believe in the Rapture. One such American was Ronald Reagan, who would discourse knowledgably about dispensational theology with the like of Jerry Falwell. In the same vein, evangelicals, most of whom are dispensationalists, make up nearly a quarter of U.S. military; their influence is particularly prominent at the Air Force Academy, whose service branch operates most of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In 1964, when Deniel Ellsberg and his boss at RAND, who both just audited the U.S. nuclear chain of command, screened Dr. Strangelove, a move about the psychotic SAC general fixated on the flouridation of drinking water -- and obsession shared even today by a few dispensationalists -- who triggers the Third World War, they remarked that the film could well have been a documentary. ~ Page 10

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