Reading the Zeitgeist

Reading the Zeitgeist

Is The End Nigh? Yes. Always.

The Apocalypse Exposes What’s at the Core of Every Civilization

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Paul Anleitner
Jun 18, 2025
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Reading reports from Israel, Iran, and here in the U.S. on Monday and Tuesday evening, I had a moment where the thought entered my mind,

“So, uh… is this it?”

You see, I spent the first 20 years of my life in a religious context obsessed with the “end times.” Before school as a kid, I would watch local-Detroit end-times TV evangelist Jack Van Impe go thro…

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