Remember Hal Lindsey and The Late Great Planet Earth?
That rings a bell. He wrote a couple of books, took the show on the road, videos? I suspect he milked it for a very nice income. But then I'm cynical.
If memory serves me I remember seeing a video by that name around 1980, narrated by Orson Welles (!). It stated, or at least heavily implied, the USSR was going to get together with some unnamed moslem country and take out a new city (implied NYC) because Nostradamus supposedly said so. It also mixed in Revelations with eathquakes in LA, plague, beasts with horns, and of course, armageddon and the antichrist. All this was supposed to start to take place in 1997.
Of course 1997 came and went, and by that time there was no USSR.
I also remember a Penn & Teller Bullshit episode with Hal Lindsey still hawking the same wares, with a later date stamp.
The next dates I have heard being bandied about are 2010 because some local church says so (some guy even appeared in a big spread in the local paper spouting this nonsense), and 2012 because the Mayan and Hopi calendars supposedly end.
This message has been edited by anglagard, 04-16-2006 10:19 PM
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