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'Praying for Armageddon' exposes the power, influence of U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals

Following the release of the powerful film on artificial intelligence, iHuman, filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei's new political thriller, Praying for Armageddon, exposes the influence of U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals on politics and democracy, with the aim to fulfill the biblical Armageddon prophecy.

“For me, the issue of the power of the U. S. fundamentalist evangelicals is maybe one of the most important issues of today,” Schei told Yahoo Canada.

“Seeing the immense power they have from the grassroots, through megachurch empires, all the way up to the political system in Washington, D. C., is just very concerning to me, especially as they're threatening democracy and also influencing U. S. foreign policy.”

In Praying for Armageddon, Schei and co-director Michael Rowley are largely guided by journalist Lee Fang, reporter with The Intercept, working to investigate evangelical power and how the direct influence on U. S. foreign policy, specifically the country's relationship to Israel.

“In the tradition of Christianity, there is no single view of the end times," former evangelical preacher, Frank Schaeffer, explains in the documentary. "But the American evangelical community has latched on to one."

"Generally, they believe that believers on earth will be rapture to heaven before things get really bad. And that’s the promise to the evangelical, that they will not taste death if Jesus comes back and the rapture occurs in their lifetime.”

From American preachers, like Gary Burd with the Mission M25 biker ministry, to chronicling the function of the Organizations like Christians Unite For Israel (CUFI), led by John Hagee, Praying for Armageddon is clearly sounding the alarm on the dangers of this influential group.

They exist in the state of Nevada and the world has not come to an end there. They exist in European countries. So why is it banned in most of the US?

The puritanical views of North America are not a fix to any kind of problem. Just because you ban something, doesn't mean it goes away. Just because you allow it, doesn't make it more influential on society either. Whether you say it should not be a thing, it'll still be happening somewhere, it's just that nobody is aware of what's going on. How is that better? Prohibition didn't end alcohol consumption, and lifting the ban didn't cause more alcoholism.

Brothels that are ran like any business would take the safety and security of people into greater consideration than pimps and other shady characters... and yet it seems like it'll probably never happen in this country. America will never be fully on board with people having total bodily and lifestyle autonomy and freedom. The preferred band-aid fix to complication issues is always a push to take rights away.