Apocalypse Now? Christian Fundamentalists and COVID-19

STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) – Like most male Swedes of my age I had to enter obligatory military service for almost a year. In my barrack was a “born-again-Christian” who when he became angry shouted “Now you mock me, but when the Last Judgement has come I will sit in heaven and smile down at you while you burn in Hell!” Since then I have wondered about the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation. It was written by a frustrated Christian man who by the end of 100 CE by Roman authorities had been deported to an isolated island where he wrote a long letter to Christian congregations in Asia Minor.

Getting hard to breathe
hard to believe in anything
at all, but fear.

Peter Gabriel, Mother of Violence

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