Ready for Armageddon, Church Retails to the Masses
They're still ready for Armageddon at the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religious sect that for almost two decades has kept a bomb shelter stocked for 750 people deep in a forest near Yellowstone National Park. Church leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet has been silenced by advanced Alzheimer's disease. And her followers say they've given up the assault rifles and armored vehicles they amassed in the late 1980s _ part of a post-nuclear war "re-emergence" plan that brought national notoriety and a federal investigation. Scrambling to stay current as it reaches its 50th anniversary, the church has transformed itself into a New Age publishing enterprise and spiritual university. But still in the background is its "insurance" against the end _ the shelter buried beneath a hillside on the sect's 7,500 acre Royal Teton...............
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