Volume 21, Number 2 · February 21, 1974
Turning the Other Check
By Martin Gardner
The Preachers
by James Morris
St. Martin's, 418 pp., $8.95
A group of students on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley are in animated discussion. Are they debating subtle differences between Maoism and Castroism? Between Therevada and Mahayana Buddhism? Listen carefully. They are talking about the 'rapture.' Will the saved be caught up in the air with Jesus at the time of his Second Coming, or will the rapture take place before the Second Coming?
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