The Apocalyptic Vision of Christianity

The early Christians did try to live communally, but it was not possible competing with self-interest because this is a superior survival machine. The thing is, we're all on this earth together, we can all fucking cooperate, we can put our heads together. It is not a survival question if we recognize it as such, which is easier to say when you live in super abundance, which you don’t have where these religions emerge. So when the apocalyptic vision comes to Christianity, as it does at the turn of the millennium, and then again in the 1500s when the Reformation occurs, it is this swelling yearning to align our understanding, our social understanding, our emotional