There seems little question the Islamist terror attack prompted renewed apocalypticism from the evangelical right. Here's Billy Graham's daughter's take:
[T]he alarm did not fade away. Instead, I have heard it reverberating throughout the past 10 years: from Hurricane Katrina to the record-breaking floods, forest fires, tornadoes, droughts, and snow storms; to the collapse of our major financial institutions; to the economic recession; to the inability to win the war in Afghanistan.
The alarm keeps resounding because so many people have not heeded, or even heard, the warning … And what is the warning? Simply this: It is five minutes to midnight on the clock of human history. Judgment is at the door. Jesus is coming! It's time to wake up and get right with God! Are you listening?
Religious extremism begets religious extremism. In the Muslim world, the shift seems to have been somewhat against such extremism in the last decade. Not so much in the Republican party base.
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