Now, be honest: do you think the world is going to be radically transformed, probably not for the better, within your lifetime?
Social scientists tell us that two-thirds of Americans do. And that’s only counting the traditional millennials, the “Left Behind” crowd and their ilk. But as scholar Richard Landes recently described in his sweeping book Heaven on Earth: Varieties of the Millennial Experience, apocalyptic thinking comes in many forms: secular, political, mystical, and many more. Even those of us who aren’t wearing special underwear because we believe we’re about to be levitated out of our clothes still harbor apocalyptic views about climate change, the global financial collapse, even 2012.
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