Friday, June 11, 2010

The Troubling Mystery of 'Revelation'

By the Rev. Howard Bess
June 11, 2010

Every time there is a crisis in the United States or the world, real or imagined, a significant part of the Christian population takes on a renewed interest in the last book of the Bible, Revelation, with its vivid imagery of violent conflict between Good and Evil.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it [the Book of Revelation], and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherencies of our own nightly dreams."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to General Alexander Smyth, January 17, 1825