If you liked my (mega spoilers!) disquisition on how Incredibles 2 had the potential for real greatness and squandered it, you’ll love my new meditation on the end of the world:

However, even I balked at first at the suggestion of the herem warfare of the Old Testament as an eschatological image. Upon reflection, though, I accept the connection. Jesus’ return is described in scripture with terrifying images of warfare and destruction. The irreversible perdition of the lost produces a spontaneous moral shock comparable to what we experience reading about herem warfare. The image even, as a purely logical matter, limits the extent to which we can emphasize discontinuity, for it implicitly challenges annihilationism. I’m only surprised I never saw this connection before.

First of a series at TGR. Let me know what you think – while there’s still time.