Recently I read about a group in Switzerland that's agitating to remove all reference to God from the Swiss national anthem. Since the national anthem of the United States says nary a word about God, Americans are in no position to point the finger of blame at the godless Swiss.
Rather, I mention this factoid from Switzerland because it's a perfect example of modern secularism in its overtly aggressive mode. This same movement to push God out of the picture can be found just about everywhere now.
It isn't new. As I was reading about events in Switzerland, I also was re-reading Robert Hugh Benson's century-old apocalyptic novel Lord of the World, a chilling fictional account of the events surrounding the coming of the Antichrist at a point in the not very distant future.
Benson was a son of an Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Catholic priest and wrote a number of highly readable devotional works and novels with religious themes. Lord of the World is the best known of these. Every now and then someone new falls under the spell of what its author himself called a "terribly sensational" book and offers fresh testimony to its nightmarish power.
Apocalyptic literature--writing about events heralding and accompanying the end of the world--has a long history and occupies its own special niche. Far and away the best known work of this sort is the New Testament's Book of Revelation, attributed to St. John the Apostle. New additions to the genre, both Catholic and non-Catholic, have multiplied since Robert Hugh Benson's day. A very recent specimen from a Catholic author is Paul Thigpen's The Burden (Sea Star Press), cast as a series of verse denunciations in the Old Testament manner aimed at various contemporary perversions and threatening appropriate retributions for each.
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