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‘Praying For Armageddon’ Review: A Chilling Look At The Pastors, Politicians and Power Brokers Agitating for Apocalypse, Now

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My brother in Christ, helluva people, especially young, religious or not, wish openly or secretly for some sort of apocalypse, reset of civilization, zombie pandemics and so on and so forth.
- I am not religious, but I honestly think that the best thing that could happen, overall, is humanity killing ourselves off. We're a net negative for almost everything else on this planet.
  The difference is that I, and all - or at least, the vast majority - of the folks you refer to aren't actively trying to make it happen.
  
  I'm not very religious either and I think you're an idiot, since only idiots give up the potential for greatness, because they themselves forget to balance out the daily intake of negativity with positivity.
- And do all of those people have great representation and power?
  
  Do they all have to, or is it ok with you that some do?
Slavoj Zizek wrote that zombie stories like WWZ and the Living Dead movies are popular is because it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. People have so absorbed Thatcher’s “There is no alternative” that the only alternative we can picture is the literal destruction of society itself.

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