North Korean missile tests, Iranian nuclear ambitions, GM going bankrupt ... can The End be far off? Morehead's Musings reviews Apocalyptic Transformation: Apocalypse and the Postmodern Imagination (Lexington Books: 2008), suggesting apocalyptic anxiety is less a religious doctrine than an aspect of the human condition. The book discusses apocalyptic themes in a variety of films such as the Matrix trilogy.
Here's how Morehead's review starts out:
Fears and scenarios concerning the ultimate End of things are far more broad and diverse in the late modern West than the Left Behind novels of evangelicalism and popular culture. ...
[Author Elizabeth] Rosen begins her discussion with an introduction into apocalyptic thinking. She notes that just as human beings need origin stories or myths to explain our beginnings, so we also incorporate stories of the End in order to come to grips with the threats of the end in the face of social chaos and the finality of the human story. She also draws the reader's attention to the fact that stories of the End are sense-making myths that serve as "an organizing principle imposed on an overwhelming, seemingly disordered universe." Used in this fashion, apocalyptic stories function much like conspiracy and chaos stories.
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Heavenly Father will work this in HIS due time though we all know this time is not far distant. What exactly he Prophet Joseph foretold of this time will eventually be known. Speculation on the "White Horse" prophecies will be put to rest. Some see this new administration as a great thing to be reverred while others see it as rush head-long into the mess at "Warp speed MR. Sulu". Is it a sign of the times? Of course. It's already foretold that in the end "even the elect shall be deceived." Each side will be the one to claim they will not be the ones that are deceived. W. Cleon Skousen's 1963 presentation of communism's 45 goals is almost complete in this country. To me this is sad.
Frank,
You don't understand my list? Just look at Rick's comment. He is a devout, loyal believer in the prophet Cleon Skousen, who believed the whole world was America's enemy. Heck, Skousen believed only a part of America was not his enemy! Talk about being deceived. Rick still lives in the 1960s!
I'm not sure whether Dave allows ad hom attacks but so you know, I am not the topic of this blog.
Last post is mine.
How many years have some folks predicted the "end" was in sight, due to the horrible things happening in the world? Those folks that lived during the wars...Civil, WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, as well as those wars before and conflicts since this country began, probably thought the earth was doomed. Interesting...we're still here...and IMO will be for a lot longer.
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