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Tonight I watched a National Geographic documentary about Armageddon.  It pitted the diehard Bible believers against theologian’s theories about the meaning of the book of Revelation – whether it needs to be taken literally and the end of the world is nigh, or whether it should be taken as a then contemporary text alluding to the Roman/Jewish discord which raged at the time John was committing his wildly psychedelic hallucinations to papyrus, or parchment, or whatever it was he wrote it on.

I tend to lean towards the theologian’s view.  I’ve never taken the Bible literally, and there’s a whole host of reasons why, but I won’t go into them.  I will however, make what should be an obvious observation which to me is a no-brainer, as to why the book of Revelation couldn’t be an actual prediction of the end of the world.  Let me just say that I haven’t read much of it at all – just snippets, because it bores me to tears and sounds ridiculously naive and stupid (why couldn’t Bible writers think of another conjunction other than ‘and’!)…  Anyway, the no-brainer is thus:
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