A South African pastor declared the rapture was coming in September. When it didn’t happen, he said he got the date wrong, and now ample followers on social are fervently awaiting a rapture this week.
We discuss why the idea has such perennial appeal with Kim Haines-Eitzen, professor of religion at Cornell University.
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