Apocalypse Now: How the Left and Right Get Danger Wrong

The idea of an apocalypse is terrifying for a people and culture under the pretension that everything is under our control -- and that our best hope is to continue to feel in control. In politics today, apocalyptic thinking on the right and the left is based on an apocalypse that is sure to harm us -- but is not so unwieldy that our total control could not avert it. Meanwhile, the Christian idea is nearly the opposite: Embracing apocalypse would not only prepare us for the reality of the world to come, but it involves an acceptance of the world as it is and our role in it.