A Doomsday Reader: Prophets, Predictors, and Hucksters of Salvation

by Ted Daniels

Overview

A collection of pronouncements, edicts, and scriptures predicting the apocalypse

The approach of the year 2000 has made the study of apocalyptic movements trendy. But groups anticipating the end of the world will continue to predict Armageddon even after the calendar clicks to triple 0s.

A Doomsday Reader brings together pronouncements, edicts, and scriptures written by prominent apocalyptic movements from a wide range of traditions and ideologies to offer an exceptional look into their belief systems.
Focused on attaining paradise, millenarianism often anticipates great, cosmic change. While most think of religious belief as motivating such fervor, Daniels' comparative approach encompasses secular movements such as environmentalism and the Montana Freemen, and argues that such groups are often more political than religious in nature.

The book includes documents from groups such as the Branch Davidians, the Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate, and white supremacists. Each document is preceded by a substantive introduction placing the movement and its beliefs in context.

This important overview of contemporary politics of the End will remain a valuable resource long after the year 2000 has come and gone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814719091
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	08/01/1999
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ted Daniels is the editor and publisher of the Millennial Prophecy Report. He has been collecting prophetic material from more than 1200 print and electronic sources.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	1
1.	Millennialism in World Religions	19
Part I	Enlightenment and Secular Millenarianism	53
2.	Marxism	56
	From The Communist Manifesto	58
3.	Nazism: Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf	64
	From Mein Kampf	73
4.	Environmentalism, Politics, and Progress	79
	World Scientists' Warning to Humanity	86
Part II	Millennial Evil	93
5.	A Royalist Apocalypse: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion	99
	From The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion	104
6.	Myths of Power: Conspiracies, Revenge, and The Turner Diaries	108
	From The Turner Diaries	113
7.	The New World Order	119
	Mission Statement of the Council on Foreign Relations	123
Part III	Well-Known Contemporary Movements	127
8.	The Branch Davidians	128
	Chapter 1: The First Seal	138
9.	The Order of the Solar Temple	144
	Final Message to All Those Who Can Still Understand the Voice of Wisdom	150
10.	Aum Shinri Kyo and the Politics of Terror	154
	The World after the Final War	166
11.	The Montana Freemen	171
	Our De Jure County Government Pursuant to the Word of Almighty God	189
12.	Comet Hale-Bopp, Planet Nibiru, the Mass Landing, and Heaven's Gate	199
	Crew from the Evolutionary Level above Human Offers--Last Chance to Advance beyond Human	212
	The End	224
	Works Cited	235
	Index	245
	About the Author	253