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Unholier Than Thou

Apocalypse Now?

Unholier Than Thou

Unholier Than Thou

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7903 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

2020 has been a hell of a year. Every month we read a new headline that makes it seem like the apocalypse might be nigh. While there's no "how to" guide for the end times, there's one text that might be able to help: The Book of Revelations. Phil talks to Timothy Beal, professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University about what our obsession with predicting the end of the world actually reveals about us; and how really, the end of one world could mean the creation of a new one.

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0:00.0

From Crooked Media, this is unholyer than now. I'm your host, Philip Picardy.

0:09.0

2020 has been one hell of a year. No, literally, it's been a hell of a year. No, literally, it's been a hell of a year. We opened in January with news of a

0:17.3

suspicious and concerning virus which quickly unfolded into a global pandemic of epic proportion.

0:22.3

And if that wasn't enough, just as many into a global pandemic of epic proportion.

0:23.0

And if that wasn't enough, just as many of us started to finally venture outside for the first time in four months,

0:28.0

a case of the Bubonic plague was just identified in Inner Mongolia.

0:32.0

From the very first case of COVID-19 to a new type of swine flu and now the Bubonic plague.

0:38.0

One of the deadliest diseases in human history has been reported in China.

0:42.0

All the while, strange weather events human history has been reported in China.

0:43.3

All the while strange weather events swept America culminating in a summer hailstorm in New

0:48.1

York City.

0:49.7

But at least we have a highly competent leader to guide us through all of this catastrophe.

0:54.0

Now the virus that we're talking about having to do, you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat.

1:01.0

We think we have it very well under control. We think it's going to have a very

1:04.8

good ending for us so that I can assure you. Well we pretty much shut it down coming in from

1:10.7

China. We're going to see what happens, but we did shut it down.

1:13.4

It can feel these days like it's the end of the world, a real apocalypse.

1:18.2

And I hate to quote Carrie Bradshaw, but it only feels apt, so here goes nothing. I couldn't help but wonder, is the apocalypse nigh?

1:28.4

Anyone with even a remote understanding of the Bible knows that the end times was

1:34.6

well prophesied in the New Testament's Book of Revelations detailing catastrophic

1:39.0

events and condemnation that would upend humanity as we know it.

1:43.0

Many of us were taught to anticipate literal hell on earth just before the second

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