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Because he acknowledges the possibility of an Armageddon, President Reagan has been accused of being more willing to push the nuclear-war button [RELIGION, Nov. 5]. Believing in the inevitability of Armageddon does not automatically make one trigger-happy and dangerous. I accept the inevitability of death, yet I am not a careless driver. It does not follow that the belief hi a literal Armageddon has to be linked with a reckless willingness to enter a nuclear...
Liberal interpreters of the Bible are quick to take as literal those admonitions that please them, such as beating plowshares into pruning hooks and peace on earth. But these same individuals are equally quick to label as allegory and symbolism all they do not wish to face, like Armageddon and Judgment...
Since when does Armageddon take place in this world? To be consistently literal we would also have to expect a dragon that would gather everyone for a battle in an earthly place called Armageddon...
...Lord said his kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). Armageddon is therefore not a final battle in this world but a confrontation between good and evil people in the spiritual realm...
...mood of Supergirl seems almost pastoral compared with that of The Terminator. This picture barrels with swank relentlessness through a giddily complicated premise and into an Armageddon face-off between another New Woman and a Man of Iron. The man (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is really a machine: sturdier than a tall building, able to break supporting players in his bare hands, shooting middle-aged " ladies on sight, speaking 2 whole sentences only when absolutely necessary...