Tuesday, April 29, 2003
The end is near - Or so some Americans believe
A Time/CNN poll has found that 17 per cent of Americans -- nearly one in five -- believe that the end of the world will come in their lifetimes, and 59 per cent believe that the prophecies about the end of the world found in the Christian New Testament Book of Revelations are true and will happen, if not in the near future.
The war against Iraq, the ancient biblical Babylon described in repeated references in Revelations, has booted Americans' eschatological thoughts into overdrive.
End-times allusions abound. Revelations Chapter 9, Verse 11, for example -- yes, indeed, 9:11 -- talks about a king who is "the angel of the bottomless pit" commanding an army of locusts with the power of scorpions, the king's name being Abaddon in Hebrew or Apollyon in Greek, both meaning "Destroyer," an Arabic translation of Saddam.
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