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2020-04-02
The Apocalypse as an ‘Unveiling’: What Religion Teaches Us About the End Times
This article discusses the different religious viewpoints in relation to how the epidemic and apocalypse can affect the livelihood of each religion and its following and how they continue to practice in such trying times. -
2020-04-27
The Apocalypse as an ‘Unveiling’: What Religion Teaches Us About the End Times by Elizabeth Diaz
The article with the image by Elizabeth Diaz, compares the image of the apocalypse to the pandemic crisis. Human beings versus humankind,inequality. Events of destruction and the skies would become the heavens. (Diaz,202). Diaz, Elizabeth. The Apocalypse as an ‘Unveiling’: What Religion Teaches Us About the End Times. New york times, April 2,2020. “Death on the Pale Horse,” painted by the American artist Benjamin West in 1796. #REL101 Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-apocalypse-religion.html -
2020-03-15
A Sunday without Church: In Crisis, a Nation Asks, 'What is Community?'
The parking lot at a large church sits empty, and volunteers explain to anyone who tries to enter that all services will be held online in order to decrease the risk of spreading COVID-19. Regular church attendees are currently having their sense of community challanged. This is because their relgious practice routines have been disrupted. -
04/02/2020
The Apocalypse as an ‘Unveiling’: What Religion Teaches Us About the End Times
This article describes the different viewpoints of a multitude of religions in the aspects of dealing with an apocoloypse. It underscores and highlights the trials and tribulations that traditions have gone thorugh in order for the followers of each religion to understand and cope with the isolation and other factors that are contributed to an epidemic or apocolypse in hopes of understanding what it means for them religiously as well as physically. It proceeds to delve into the descriptions of apocolypse in the written text for the religions of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity to find different ways that apocolypse is talked about and dealt with to give an insight on how different religious backgrounds view the epidemic times we are currently in. The author then proceeded to interview individuals from different religious backgrounds to get their own personal understanding of the apocolyptic world we are living in right now and how they view the situation to show the drastic differences in opinions and values that individuals with different religious backgrounds see. All in all, the author wraps up the article by saying that we all need to be prepared and ready because we truly never know when our last breathe can be.