The doomsaying narrative is the oldest narrative of the Christian West, expressing as it does the core message of Jesus of Nazareth.
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
-- Mark 1:15
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
-- Luke 11:51
It has routinely erupted century upon century ever since in explicitly religious predictions of the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Yet here we are.
In our times it has taken on secularized elements, like WWI as "the war to end all wars", or warnings of global communist tyranny, a coming ice age, devastation by global thermonuclear war, the ozone hole, pandemic disease, the population bomb, man-made environmental and climate catastrophe, "the end of history", global warming, starvation, and now mass anxiety and depression!
Don't just sit there! Do something!
Preferably with your hands, outdoors.
That way you might catch a better glimpse of The Mother of All Asteroids before it blows us all to smithereens.
