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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, many of them literally are.  
Yes, in part, they're a death cult.

Many of them are premilennial dispensationalists.  The former means that they believe that the end-times, including the rapture and a 1,000 year earth-bound reign of Christ, is beginning now and is appropriate, Biblically pre-ordained destiny.  As dispensationalists, they typically believe that the eternal fate of every individual has already been decided.

PmD is particularly common among certain protestant faiths, and is especially common among "independent" protestant denominations.  But not all PmD believers are protestant.  Some very conservative Catholics are also PmD (especially common among those who reject the current Roman reign).  And there are some hyper-orthodox Jews who have adopted a version of PmD that, basically, doesn't have the Jesus parts in their version.

No, you will not commonly find PmDs among Democrats.

Because PmDs believe that the proper, appropriate, ordained, destiny of everyone on earth is to die to be judged, and the death of both believers and unbelievers will cause the believers to be called to an eternal reward either at once (in the rapture) or later (during or after the 1,000 year reign), and promoting these events is inherently good and faithful, it would be perfectly fair to say that the Republican party is in fact a religious death cult.  [/quote]

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