Category Archives: September

Please read in preparation for class

This week, I decided to write a collective response to your posts, touching on some of the key issues that we can discuss more fully in class.  Some of you have not yet posted, however, and that means I can’t … Continue reading

Posted in Lee Quinby, September, September 21 | Leave a comment

The World Will End On…

I realize that these posts are supposed to be about the readings we’ve done, in their entirety.  The thing is, I’d really like to talk about everything – I’d like to talk about the Godless apocalypse, sure, but there’s hardly … Continue reading

Posted in Jon Rossi, September, September 21 | 1 Comment

The (Un)Revealing Revelation

If we are to take the word of the first 26 books of the New Testament as the word of God, then how are we also able to take John’s ramblings on a vengeful God—a God who believes the very act of conception is defilement, a God who will torture those who were not Martyrs for the Christian cause (but associated themselves with Roman coinage, or pagan traditions) for eternity, despite their overall good intentions, as truth as well? Continue reading

Posted in Andreas Apostolopoulos, September, September 21 | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Finishing Kirsch

As a skeptic of all apocalyptic theories, I enjoyed finishing Kirsch’s book because he is a skeptic himself. Reading about this subject through another skeptic’s eyes make it more comfortable for me because he explores the book of Revelation- a … Continue reading

Posted in Grecia Huesca, September, September 21 | 1 Comment

Propagandocalypse

For most of the Christian West’s history, prophecy of the end of days has held latent within it the promise of redemption.  As the story of Revelation goes, each man, woman and child will stand before his creator and, possessed … Continue reading

Posted in Sam Barnes, September, September 14 | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments