February
22
/ 2021
In the beginning was the word, and by the time that word was made flesh some 85 million people would be dead. It would be incumbent upon us to discover just what that word might be. The word was ‘Armageddon’, ten letters over-burdened with doom and foreboding, which have tempted mankind for 2,000 years. The graphic imagery and searing examples of interminable and incalculable loss as depicted in the Book of Revelation have always been seen as the fraught ravings of over-heated imaginations. Serpents, dragons, firestorms and eternal damnation make for colorful reading, but the temperature of these febrile ramblings has rendered them all too easily to be dismissed. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"83467","attributes":{"alt":"Armageddon by Nicholas Roerich (1935) (Public Domain)","class":"media-image","height":"451","style":"width: 610px; height: 451px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Armageddon
