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"George, what the fuck are you talking about" (infosec.pub)
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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Really makes you wonder what would have happened if Revelation was just never accepted as cannon

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago

Dunno, it likely wouldn’t eliminate apocalyptic thinking altogether since those themes were already present in earlier Jewish and Christian traditions. Revelation, just gave them a script to work with. ¯\(ツ)/¯