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Douglas Trapasso
May. 29, 2024, morning

Most prominently in the broader cult of Trump, the strain of Apocalypse-obsessed white evangelical

Protestantism that began gaining strength in earnest in the 1970s, enveloping tens of millions of Americans in a

vision of imminent blood and hellfire,

You're kind of describing a book I'm looking for, but haven't found yet. Can you recommend an account of the grassroots rise of both offsprings of Christianity that emerged in the 70's - the paranoid, apocalyptic vision you describe above and the Godspell/JC Superstar/Keith Green earthy brand I vaguely remember from elementary school? Did the former group splinter from the second or were they always on separate tracks?

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