The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World with John Jeffries Martin
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The End Times Haven't Arrived - Is There a Pattern?
Do you see a pattern in the way civilizations, nations, religions deal with the fact that the end times haven't arrived? I'm not sure I could possibly answer my own sense is that while to, you know, a self proclaimed kind of enlightened rationalist would say that if the prophecies are unfulfilled, therefore they're falsified. In reality, in terms of the experience people had unfulfilled prophecies, that was not usually the case. Usually people would simply say they had miscalculated or they had misunderstood,. but they still expected the end times to come and perhaps offered a new prophecies.
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