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Apocalyptic
Apocalyptic is from the word apocalypse, referring to the end of the world.
Apocalyptic fiction focuses on the end of civilization either through nuclear war, plague, or other global catastrophic risk.
Apocalyptic literature is a genre of religious writing centered on visions of the end of time.
Many apocalyptic stories focus on stories that are on the brink of the end of the world of the civilization. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. Also called 'Holocaust'
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Apocalyptic fiction focuses on the end of civilization either through nuclear war, plague, or other global catastrophic risk.
Apocalyptic literature is a genre of religious writing centered on visions of the end of time.
Many apocalyptic stories focus on stories that are on the brink of the end of the world of the civilization. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. Also called 'Holocaust'
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The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County.
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years.
So ended The Day.
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― Alas, Babylon
― Alas, Babylon
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It is also striking and worth noting that this apocalyptic message comes to be toned down, and then virtually eliminated, and finally preached against (allegedly by Jesus!) in our later sources. And it is not hard to figure out why. If Jesus predicted that the imminent apocalypse would arrive within his own generation, before his disciples had all died, what was one to think a generation later when in fact it had not arrived? One might conclude that Jesus was wrong. But if one wanted to stay tru
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― How Jesus Became God
― How Jesus Became God
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