Patmos, Payne and Paradoxes

Is there a God? Life after death? An apocalypse in store for us? Age-old questions crossed my mind on the ferry approaching Patmos, the Aegean island reined by a thousand-year old monastery, a fortress that summits the island’s stony landscape and local life. Patmos is mentioned in the Book of Revelation. John the Apostle was here when he got visions he logged in the Apocalypse. The cave where he allegedly had his prophecies is on the road from the port to the main town, a snaking lane swimmi...