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How Jesus didn’t turn up 164 years ago today

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Weird and wonderful

We live in a time when a considerable number of people believe The End of Days to be imminent. But evidently ours not the first era in which this belief was widespread. The Millerites were a sect of 19th-century American baptists convinced that Jesus was set to turn up in 1844. Hindsight, of course, is a great thing.

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