Great Post.Thank you.
Aren’t JW’s milllenarians? (the second coming and end of days)
Your post reads almost like a summary of Kenelm Burridge’s excellent book ‘New Heaven New Earth’ .He describes the common features or millenarian religions, of which there have been quite a few.
Catholics are millenarial and consider themselves very fucking special.
As a child, a compassionate head nun told us not to throw rocks at the protestant children and to be kind to them . After all it wasn’t their fault they were all going to hell. (Catholic theology was not her stong suit)
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“New heaven, new earth: a study of millenarian activities Pavilion series: Social anthropology Pavilion series Author Kenelm Burridge Publisher Schocken Books, 1969 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized Jul 12, 2007 Length 191 pages Subjects Ethnology Millennialism Millennium (Eschatology) Nativistic movements”
Still in print and available from about $15 second hand from Amazon. Highly recommended.
Totally OT: Just received a weather warning on my PC: The current temperature in Adelaide is 2 degrees celsius. It is 0807 Monday 29 June. Considering Adelaide has a mediteranean climate, 2 degrees is considered extremely cold . It never snows in suburban Adelaide. All I can say is thank goodness climate change is a hoax or we’d really be in trouble.
Question;>where are the emoticons at?