Auld Lang Syne
Midnight Folly
Viper Bite; 2009
My ears, eyes, and psyche have been subjected to all manner of apocalyptic imagery throughout the course of my life. I’ve heard sermons from a host of evangelical and fundamentalist preachers, all trying to scare the hell out of me (or, as they would put it, scare me out of hell). Some have featured melodramatic hysterics that would make Jonathan Edwards proud, while others concocted their best Stephen King, “I-will-freak-out-the-congregation-by-being-grim-and-darkly-pathological” impression. Furthermore, I spent six years working in a Christian bookstore during the height of the Left Behind mania (both the books and lame Kirk Cameron movies). Suffice to say, I’m well versed in contemporary “The End Is Near!” histrionics.
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