To: .cnI redruM
End-times stories have become quite popular in recent years. In a recent New York Magazine piece, entitled “The End of the World as They Know It,” Kurt Anderson observes that from “Christian millenarians and jihadists to Ivy League professors and baby-boomers, apocalypse is hot.”
People were freaking out and expecting the Second Coming since about 70 AD. There was a good scene in 'name of the rose' where the whole monastery seemed convinced that Antichrist was nigh.
16 posted on
10/10/2006 7:54:08 AM PDT by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
To: RedStateRocker; All
...People were freaking out and expecting the Second Coming since about 70 AD. ...
Long before then, my friend. The Jews have been saving a place for Elijah for an eternity. The Zoroastrians, before them.
27 posted on
10/10/2006 8:08:34 AM PDT by
olde north church
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