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Rapacious Industrial Capitalism and its Apocalyptic Consequences

  C hristian apocalypse   Is climate apocalypse possible? But what does apocalypse mean? Apocalypse in Greek means revelation, pulling the cover off something. But with Christians, apocalypse took a new violent meaning. At the end of the first century of our era, the Roman imperial government exiled John, a Jesus follower, to the Greek island of Patmos where he wrote the  Book of Revelation  in which he unleashed a storm of harm, blasphemies, and hatred against non-Christians, and the Roman Emperor Domitian, 81 – 96. This terrible book took the name of apocalypse.    James Tabor, professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, talked about the  Book of Revelation . In the PBS program of   Frontline , Tabor explained: “The  Book of Revelation   [is]…  a scroll with seven wax seals. As you begin to open it, you get this unfolding scenario of events, beginning with war and famine and di