{"id":19031,"date":"2015-05-16T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=19031"},"modified":"2015-05-16T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T19:27:12","slug":"armadeddon-outta-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2015\/05\/armadeddon-outta-here.html","title":{"rendered":"Armadeddon Outta Here…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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My essay for Imaginative Conservative this week called \u201cApocalypse Now and Then<\/a>\u201d focuses on the human weakness for Doomsday Scenarios<\/p>\n

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I grew up in a fundamentalist church.\u201d I explained, \u201cwhere we heard terrible prophecies about the Great Tribulation and the end times. An impish evangelist named Jack Van Impe would visit our church and scare us with stories about Armageddon and the big computer in Brussels called \u2018The Beast,\u2019 which tracked everyone, and how the European Community would merge with the Catholic Church to become the head of a New World Order, and the Jesuits had the names of all the born-again Christians, and they had taken a blood curdling oath of total obedience to the Pope, and when he gave the green light they would round up all the true believers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then they showed us a kind of Christian horror movie called \u201cLeft Behind,\u201d in which the Lord Jesus returned and took all the true Christians to heaven in a flash, and airplanes fell out of the sky because their pilots had been raptured, and all the sinners were left behind, so you better get saved quick, and then we sang a lugubrious song called, \u201cI Wish We\u2019d All Been Ready\u201d with the refrain, \u201cThere\u2019s no time, to change your mind. The Son has come and you\u2019ve been left behind\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I became a Catholic the apocalyptic stories were even more stupendous. The three days of darkness were just around the corner, and only blessed candles would be able to be lit. There were the prophecies of St. Malachy, which said the number of popes was running out fast, and why on earth couldn\u2019t the pope consecrate Russia to the Blessed Virgin the right way? Didn\u2019t he know the fate of the world was dependent on it? The exciting thing about the Catholics is that they actually had visions of Mary, stigmatics, visionaries, mystics and miracles, which raised the stakes and made it all so much more vivid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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