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#The Old Protestant Obsession With End-Times Myths | The Vortex

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The rapture is stupid and unbiblical.

With the civilization in its death throes, many people start scrambling around looking for what we guess you could call "the easy out."

As a point of reference, when the Roman Empire was breathing its last, and the barbarians were swarming over the walls and marauding down the streets, the citizenry thought it was the end of the world.

And remember, when all that was going on, most of the empire had already been either directly converted to Catholicism or at least understood it was the State religion (and had been at that point for over a century). So we aren't exactly talking about a bunch of pagans here worshiping false gods.

In fact, so horrified and end-of-the-world crazy were they that St. Augustine sat down and penned his tremendous work The City of God, still one of the giant classics of Western civilization and, dare we say, human history. In that opus, he drew the sharp distinction between the city of God and the city of man.

The faithful belong to the city of God and simply dwell temporarily in the city of man. We are citizens of the heavenly city, and what happens in the earthly city should not be considered paramount, his counsel went. Empires and civilizations come and go, but the city of God remains.

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