Some are saying, eagerly, that this is the sign of the End. The ‘End-Times’ industry has been massive in America over the last couple of generations. Spin-off versions are popular in most other countries, too. Former highlights include Hal Lindsey’s famous The Late Great Planet Earth, and the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. They construct a horror-movie scenario out of bits and pieces of the Bible, strung together with the string of fundamentalist piety. It’s basically Platonic: ‘going to heaven’ is the aim, leaving the world behind to its Armageddon. And now the
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