Ok - it was a bit fluffy - let's see if I can make myself more coherent.
As a westerner, even if you don't belong to a religion, Christian stories have been popularized through the media, through movies, documentaries, etc. Time and again we've faced the speculation of 'is this the end of the world'? We've all heard stories of cult members that have killed themselves because they thought the end of the world was nigh. We've heard stories about Soddom and Gomorragh, Noah's Flood - acts of retribution against humanity by a displeased god. We've heard about revelations - pestilence, earthquakes, a third of the fish dying in the seas, the third world war centered in the middle east, etc - all being omens of the end times.
My theory is that even if you don't subscribe to a religion, putting together things like the war in middle east, bird flu, the earthquakes in Sumatra, the storms, etc can make even non-religious people jumpy and question 'what if this is the end of times?' This is because a) all of the information they have processed about revelation 'primes' their mind to make connections between world events and the prophesized end times, coupled with b) the 'what if' factor - namely 'what if God is really there and I haven't done the right thing and I get screwed for eternity?'
Ok - it was a bit fluffy - let's see if I can make myself more coherent.
As a westerner, even if you don't belong to a religion, Christian stories have been popularized through the media, through movies, documentaries, etc. Time and again we've faced the speculation of 'is this the end of the world'? We've all heard stories of cult members that have killed themselves because they thought the end of the world was nigh. We've heard stories about Soddom and Gomorragh, Noah's Flood - acts of retribution against humanity by a displeased god. We've heard about revelations - pestilence, earthquakes, a third of the fish dying in the seas, the third world war centered in the middle east, etc - all being omens of the end times.
My theory is that even if you don't subscribe to a religion, putting together things like the war in middle east, bird flu, the earthquakes in Sumatra, the storms, etc can make even non-religious people jumpy and question 'what if this is the end of times?' This is because a) all of the information they have processed about revelation 'primes' their mind to make connections between world events and the prophesized end times, coupled with b) the 'what if' factor - namely 'what if God is really there and I haven't done the right thing and I get screwed for eternity?'
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