What I found most amusing about this piece of flotsam was a scene in which the baddies are chasing Gary Busey's character. They're searching his house, and one of them picks up his bible. He turns to his partner with an evil grin and says, "He's unarmed!" Yeah, and that's why there are so many fanatical Christian survivalist groups who take full advantage of their Second Amendment rights and arm themselves to the teeth--because all they need to keep themselves safe is God's Word!
Back in 1999, when Y2K hysteria was all the rage, a lot of Christians believed that the supposed Y2K technological singularity was going to signal the beginning of the Tribulation (just like all those other events that were supposed to signal the beginning of the Tribulation before and since, most recently May 21, 2011). Otherwise sensible people started stockpiling dried food, barrels of drinking water, cash, and for all I know, gold and weapons [see the previous paragraph]. I met one guy who believed that the Russian (formerly Soviet) and Chinese ballistic missile systems were not Y2K compliant, and so they were going to launch them at us before 2000, just to use them up before they became useless (maybe that's where Prince got the idea to party like it's 1999).
I heard one radio broadcast where they discussed the proper way for believers to behave during the coming bad times, and the announcer said something like, "Imagine the Tribulation is going on, and someone starts banging on your door begging for food. Do you put down your bible and shoot him?" To his credit, the answer was no.
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