I am not saying this is definitely that. Nor am I saying it isn't. I'm saying to be discerning and morally courageous in these propogandistic times. It is true that as we speed toward the end of the millennium fanatics will run to the mountains and hoard food and do the full extremist gig. Others have done the same thing in other times.
People do it, people bank on it.
It is wrong and destructive. The Danger of Eschatological Reductionism. To argue against a whole school of theology, namely eschatology, because of the actions of a few, is to promote a reductionistic theology on the basis of an ad hominem. This too, though not recognized as much as the former practice, is extremism and dangerous. I do not know.