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In reply to the discussion: The "You Can't Make This Shit Up" award goes to [View all]Hekate
(91,678 posts)...that around the time Revelations was written, it was part of a popular literary genre around the Mediterranean Sea.
That in itself is kind of a revelation, isn't it? When you wrap your head around that book of the New Testament being part of a literary genre, and not unique to John of Patmos, it gives it a whole different context.
Quite right about the Left Behind books, too -- those authors have made a pile of money off scaring the bejaysus out of the dimwitted, who then go forth and believe this highly-colored and violent fiction is part of the religion founded by Jesus, who was a nice Jewish boy who got crucified by the Romans.
Oh, LaHay and Jenkins, here's an actual quote from Jesus (probably): "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon this Earth..."
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