Tonight I watched a National Geographic documentary about Armageddon.  It pitted the diehard Bible believers against theologian's theories about the meaning of the book of Revelation - whether it needs to be taken literally and the end of the world is nigh, or whether it should be taken as a then contemporary text alluding to the Roman/Jewish discord which raged at the time John was committing his wildly psychedelic hallucinations to papyrus, or parchment, or whatever it was he wrote it on.  read more »