Doom and dollars.(Jerry Falwell's new video about God and the millennium bug)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: January 16, 1999 | Copyright information

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

GOD'S judgment on a sinful age, or a great commercial opportunity? For the Reverend Jerry Falwell, still one of the most prominent figures of the Christian right, the millennium bug may be both at once. From his base in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Mr Falwell is peddling a $28 videotape, "A Christian's Guide to the Millennium Bug", in which he attaches biblical significance to the so-called "Y2K" problem. It may, he says, "be God's instrument to shake this nation, to humble this nation" into a spiritual awakening. Since ...

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