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The day the world didn't end
Obsession over “end times” is nothing new. Most cultures have as part of their belief system some ultimate fate of the human race, with most foreseeing a calamitous end. The beliefs are so widely held that we have a word for such systems: eschatology.
Bill King • Unapologetically Moderate: My Search for the Rational Center in American Politics
And if he was expecting the “end of the world,” well, we’re still waiting.
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
The world “apocalypse” is born of the Greek apokálypsis , meaning revelation, or hidden knowledge. The etymology suggests a divinely ordered retribution, a punitive conclusion, a Judgment Day when all will be revealed. It carries the idea that some mighty righteousness will organize our madness and impose justice on all the awful things we witness... See more