![]() ![]() "Generally, they believe that believers on earth will be raptured to heaven before things get really bad. "But the American evangelical community has latched on to one." ![]() “In the tradition of Christianity, there is no single view of the end times," former evangelical preacher, Frank Schaeffer, explains in the documentary. ![]() foreign policy, specifically the country's relationship to Israel. 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 it directly influences U.S. “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. ![]() fundamentalist evangelicals is maybe one of the most important issues of today,” Schei told Yahoo Canada. “For me, the issue of the power of the U.S. fundamentalist evangelicals on politics and democracy, with the aim to fulfill the biblical Armageddon prophecy. 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. ![]()
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