The Apocalypse Continued
The Apocalypse Continued It is October 2024. The November 2024 U.S. Presidential General Election is a few weeks away, the Nobel Prize Committee is currently selecting this year’s winners, football season is well underway, and many people are making his/her final decisions on which costume they might wear on Halloween. My personal thoughts have drifted towards the Apocalypse. Nearly four in ten Americans believe we are living in the “final days” or “end times”, according to a recent Pew Research Institute finding. I have two years of personal research on the Apocalypse, both from a religious view and a more practical disaster-preparedness perspective. I was always fascinated by how millions of people throughout history, separated by vast distances, could have very similar social and religious beliefs about civilization-ending catastrophic events. This fact could not be explained simply by claiming these peoples shared a similar mental psychosis or religious fanaticism. I am a Chri...