[johnny]

Originally Posted by Suzerain of Sheol

I really wonder what the clergy, and by extension, the theologian community, must think of those End Times Prophecy followers. Probably a mix of pity and baffled amusement. :p

Come to think of it, I can't remember even once hearing the Book of Revelation read at church when I was younger, or ever even hearing about it in Sunday School. It kind of gives me the impression that it's something of the black sheep of the New Testament.

My Religion professor was an ordained minister, and he thought they were all a bunch of loonies (although there were a handful of students in the class who believed in the "literal Bible", at which point I'm sure if they read Revelation they'd be absolutely boggled, but I suppose that "End of the World" would really be the only way to explain the craziness in that book if you wanted to interpret it "literally").

I think the reason you might not hear it at Sunday School or church is because it'd not exactly life-coaching material. Much of what it preached in churches and schools has some connection to the way people live their lives: do this, don't do that, etc. Perhaps Revelation's only "moral" is the idea of overcoming an offensive power and arriving at a sense of peace and freedom, but it's all blurred by the fantastical descriptions so it's just not the sort of thing one would base a sermon around.