"I mean, if we find out the rapture is going to happen in three days, wouldn't you like us to send you a letter?"
--Irvin Baxter, asking for contact information from 2,500 attendees at a Garland, Texas, conference on what Christian evangelical organizers believe is the imminent apocalypse.
You read right. Baxter, at the Endtime Ministries' "Prophecy Conference" in Garland over the weekend, requested information from those gathered at the conference in order to sign them up for his magazine -- and, ostensibly, advance notice of the Apocalypse. His request for information from the faithful in attendance came toward the end of the conference, which was largely focused on a homeland security measure that would also gather information from the public, the Real ID Act of 2005, that Baxter equates "with Satan's plan to enslave humanity."
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