Revelation is so clearly a product of its time and addresses what would have been contemporary concerns for John of Patmos and his intended audience that I suspect its author would be astonished to learn that people two millennia later were still sifting through its pages, looking for signs that pertain to them. It is no more a prophesy of distant future events than the tea leaves I brewed the other day. But Christians are ever desperate to make their "holy book" relevant at all costs -- even at the expense of their intellectual integrity and common sense -- and to maintain their narcissistic delusion that human history (hell, the universe!) revolves around them. That's what passes for humility in certain circles.
It would be funny if it wasn't (a) so pathetic, and (b) so potentially dangerous.
It would be funny if it wasn't (a) so pathetic, and (b) so potentially dangerous.
