To the editor:
By a more careful study of our society and economy, you may discover the apocalypse has already occurred. Here, without consideration of origins, it is viewed as a useful metaphor, more applicable in our age than in any other.
Compared to how long we’ve been around, we’ve come very close to a provable extinction. This proximity, this nearness, can be marked by what the New Testament apocalypse both represented and represents: a world of prevalent evil and uncertainty, a world that doesn’t know what it is doing.
We may further consider that this is how we missed the meaning of the prophesy of messiah-hood and perhaps even delayed its fulfillment throughout the centuries: expecting only one.
It would be a tremendous gift this season to ponder and discuss ways by which to promote love-without-doubt as well as all the virtues required to prove it, support it otherwise, and give it form. Doing so would generate many messiahs who would gladly bring about a new world; which has, in our times, become quite necessary.
John C. Douglas, Nashville
