A reader named Andrew left a really interesting comment on my apocalypse fantasy post:

But you know, apocalyptic literature in the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament are actually allegorical stories explaining in code what happened a generation ago. John’s Revelation is about Rome in the mid-seventies of the first century of the common era. And Daniel’s apocalypse had to do with the collapse of the Macedonian empire.

maybe we should start writing an allegory about the collapse of the American empire. No, we’re a generation early. Our children’s children will write it out in code so the Chinese can’t figure out what it’s all about.

This is so creepily cool, I just had to post it here. Reminds me of Red Dawn, which is a great 80’s movie about America being overrun by Communists, and neighborhood highschool kids setting up an Iraq-style insurgency to fight off the Evil Empire. I find that movie oddly inspiring - but for all the wrong reasons. Anyway, how cool would it be if we wrote an apocalyptic religious book about the divine retribution that would come to the foreign invaders who one day overthrow the American Empire, and our eventual glorious release from our very own Babylonian Captivity?