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Is The End near? |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 11:53 am |
| Tags: books, christianity, armageddon |
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I don't know, but it seems I could create an argument one way or the other, write a book about it, and make some OK cash. That's because apocalyptic literature -- fiction and non -- are a popular genre for publishers. We are obsessed with the coming apocalypse.But Jeff Sharlet, the magazine religion writer and editor of The Revealer, says in book review for the New Statesman that "we" refers not to the small portion of humans (in fact, a small portion of Christians) who have a literal reading of the last book of the Bible and the Armageddon it reveals, "but those of us who find apocalyptic believers - especially American apocalyptic believers - to be a source of sufficient anxiety that publishers churn out explanatory volumes such as Nicholas Guyatt's Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans are Looking Forward to the End of the World."Guyatt's breezy investigation is only the latest response to the success of books that skip the "why" and go directly to The End, most famously [ Full article ] |
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