Doomsday drama: Is now the best time? – Albany Democrat-Herald

Todd Noble, director of mental health and public health for Linn County Health Services, is even more blunt.

I would definitely say right now apocalyptic theme movies, etc., are a very bad idea and I would not recommend people focus on such topics, he said via email. We have enough fear out there and I see engagement in such activities will only lead to more anxiety and thats the last thing we need right now.

Humanity has been working out its feelings about the End of All Things for a long time, however, and thats not necessarily a bad thing even now, said Episcopal Bishop John Thornton of Scio, retired from the Diocese of Idaho.

Apocalypse comes from the Greek apokalyptein, which means to disclose, to uncover, to reveal, he said. Its the lifting of the veil; the revelation of timeless purposes.

The Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible is known as the Apocalypse, but is often misinterpreted, Thornton said. It was written to encourage Christians during a time of persecution under two emperors, Nero and Domitian, and should be read in the context of the first century, when whether to submit to emperor-worship was literally a matter of life or death.

By the fourth century, Christianity was state-sanctioned and protected, Thornton said. That didnt stop some Christians down through later centuries from trying to turn the book into a history of the world, calculating an end time and identifying the beast who will bring it to an end and they could always find candidates for the beast, Thornton said.

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