Harold Lee Lindsey, the evangelical writer probably best known for the apocalyptic book "The Late Great Planet Earth" (1970), in which he claimed that the end time (including the rapture) is imminent because current events were fulfilling Bible prophecy. But, as you can see, he was wrong. Nevertheless, the book was so popular that there was even a "documentary" based on it, narrated by Orson Welles.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
