Pagels on Revelation on a Single Page : The New Yorker

Elaine Pagels on the Book of Revelation : The New Yorker: "John of Patmos’s hatred for the pagan world extended from its cruelties to its beauties—the exquisite temple at nearby Pergamon was for him the Devil’s Altar, worthy only of destruction. For all that, Pagels tells us, many claim to have found in John “the promise, famously repeated by Martin Luther King Jr., that the ‘arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.’ . . . This worst of all nightmares ends not in terror but in a glorious new world, radiant with the light of God’s presence, flowing with the water of life, abounding in joy and delight.” Well, yeah, but this happens only after all the millions of heretics, past and present, have been burned alive and the planet destroyed. "

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In order for history to have a happy ending i would inevitably have to be following the horrendous genocides and war ravages of the past. It is up to us to minimize or end them.

Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes