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Chet Raymo, "Thank God, It's Doomsday"

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“Thank God, It’s Doomsday” 
by Chet Raymo
“OK, folks. Here’s what’s awaiting you. The End Times. The Apocalypse. The Rapture. The Final Reckoning. Oh, I could pick any one of a thousand representations of the Last Days from centuries of Western art. This one is Luca Signorelli’s “The Damned Cast Into Hell,” in the Capella Nuova chapel of Orvieto Cathedral, painted around the year 1500 (click to enlarge).
Why were these scenes of souls in extremis so common? Exhortations to be good? A reminder of what awaits us if we don’t contribute to the Sunday collection? A local bishop trying to scare the bejesus out of his rebellious flock? Or were these scenes of tribulation just plain old popular with ordinary people, early versions of a Hollywood blockbuster armageddon movie? A pre-modern equivalent of the hugely popular “Left Behind” books of LaHaye and Jenkins?

We love Doomsday. I don’t know why, but we seem to have a built-in fascination with the end of the world. Yeah, I watched the movie “Deep Impact.” Loved it when that comet smashed into the ocean, sending a tidal wave over New York. The good guys survived. The sheep and the goats.

One Christian group or another has been anticipating the Apocalypse virtually every decade since the Guy himself went up into heaven. And it’s not just religious folks. Today we have a secular doomsday genre. Cosmic catastrophe. Google “Nibiru.” Eight million hits. A rogue planet that swings by Earth every 3600 years. The Sumerians named it. And the time is nigh. The winter solstice, 2012. The end of the Mayan calendar. This time it’s gonna hit. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Or not. But I wouldn’t be surprised if a film called Nibiru is not in production. Meanwhile, we can enjoy the approach of the rogue planet even though it doesn’t exist, just as the good folk of Signorelli’s Orvieto presumably took a vicarious pleasure at seeing the winged demons drag their less virtuous neighbors down to hell. A suspension of disbelief. A bit of cognitive dissonance. That’s entertainment.”


Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2014/08/chet-raymo-thank-god-its-doomsday.html



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    • Miggy

      We watch for the signs of the end times because Jesus said so and they are all around us. Lets forget about movies and look where the world is moving with consilidation of power, embedded chips, cashless society, endless war, and on and on and all The Bible speaks of.

      The struggle between good and evil is about as plain as day and easy to recognize.

      I urge anyone reading this to take your salvation seriously. To believe there is no God takes way more faith than to believe there is one with all the complexities in nature. Besides, many already know that a relationship with God and Jesus Christ is very real. Open your heart to God and Jesus and pray to Them and They will reveal Themselves to you spiritually. Saved Christians know this. Proof is a personal experience and open to anyone.

      The Rapture is very real. Don’t get left behind.

      John 3:16. Jesus is the only way to Heaven.

    • Alan

      Why does the beast cower in the corner, when a hunter in capture it, because its possibly the end of its world, <:|

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