C.J. Sansom, Revelation
"Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian c"
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"Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian c"
"لقد آمن العديد من المتشددين الدينيين في حقبة تيودور حينها، تمامًا كما يؤمن الأصوليون المسيحيون اليوم، بأنهم يعيشون في "الأيام الأخيرة" التي تسبق هرمجدون. وكما هو الحال الآن تمامًا، رأوا علامات في كل مكان من العالم اعتبروها برهانًا قاطعًا على قرب حلول القيامة. ومثل الأصوليين اليوم، نظروا إلى احتمال الدمار العنيف للبشرية دون أن يرف لهم جفن. ويمتد التشابه اللافت بين البيوريتانيين الأوائل في عصر تيودور والمتعصبين من الأصوليين المسيحيين المعاصرين ليشمل قراءتهم الانتقائية للكتاب المقدس، وتركيزهم الشديد على سفر الرؤيا، ويقينهم المطلق بصواب معتقداتهم، بل وحتى أسلوبهم في التعبير. وفيما يتعلق بسفر الرؤيا، أشارك غاي رأيه بأن آباء الكنيسة الأوائل قد أطلقوا شيئًا بالغ الخطورة على العالم عندما قرروا، بعد مداولات مستفيضة، إدراجه ضمن القانون الكنسي المسيحي."
C.J. Sansom, Revelation
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C.J. Sansom, Revelation
"Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon."]"
C.J. Sansom, Revelation
"Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought."
C.J. Sansom, Revelation
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