Apocalypticism

Overview

Apocalypticism is the belief that it is desirable, usually for religious reasons, to bring about an apocalypse, i.e. a conflict leading to the end of human civilization as we know it (often termed "the end of the world" or "armageddon"), causing a major shift in history (typically accompanied by large numbers of fatalities) and possibly the end of the human species.

Wikipedia describes this worldview as being aimed towards a "major confrontation of earth-shaking magnitude that will change the course of history", thus causing significant information previously hidden to become revealed; often the "revelations" only occur in some form of afterlife, freeing apocalypticists from the necessity of remaining alive themselves in order to achieve their goal.

Links

• THE LOW POST: The End of the World: "August 22nd was supposed to be the big day -- Just ask Karl Rove!"