"Jesus, guns, babies": Religious violence is now at the core of the Republican Party

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13. BTW, that passage she cited from Acts was fulfilled 2000 years ago and doesn't mean our time.

That's actually a quote from the Old Testament prophet Joel, in a sermon given by the Apostle Peter on the day of Pentecost, telling those gathered that the prophecy was being fulfilled as they were standing there at that moment. It was the dawn of the church age and the reference to "last days" means last days of the old covenant, not the last days of human history.

Pentecostals and Charismatics, and Evangelicals who are of a certain sect, have completely screwed up the literal meanings of all of the "end times" references in the Bible. They have a 20th century mis-interpretation of them. But that's what they use to justify their stepping out of faith into violence and insurrection.