I Used to do That for a Living; Landing and Leaving 108 Jobs Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2 | Page 31

I Used to do that for a Living

them way more than he hated the Germans, felt
that one world was not big enough for both a
U.S.A. and a U.S.S.R., and insisted that the Russians’ sole aim was to conquer America, absorb
it into the Soviet Bloc, and force every citizen to
renounce God.
Jack was of one mind and one accord with
Joe McCarthy, the House Un-American Activities Committee, the John Birch Society, and such
anti-communist preachers as C.W. Burpo, Billy
James Hargis, and Carl McIntyre— the progenitors of the Religious Right. They regarded all civil rights leaders and protesters, Catholics, modernists, liberals, trade-unionists, intellectuals,
and foreigners, foreign and domestic, as Soviet
pawns. Jack and the guys he listened to on the
radio believed that by watching the Jews they
could divine God’s encrypted itinerary, learn in
advance when Jesus planned to appear like a
thief in the night to rapture away the godly in
the twinkling of an eye. They saw every news
item about the Middle East as proof positive that
the Rapture was imminent. The Cold War was
the Book of Revelation being played out on the
world stage, with the U.S.S.R. as the great bear
and the U.S.A. as the great pale horse or some
shit. Those duck-and-cover drills we kids did at
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