Various ancient societies, including the Babylonian and Judaic, produced apocalyptic literature and mythology which dealt with the end of the world and of human society, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, written c.
Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in a non-technological future world or a world where only scattered elements of society and technology remain. The time may be directly after the catastrophe, focusing on the psychology of survivors, the way to keep the human race alive and together as one, or considerably later, often including that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been mythologized. The story may involve attempts to prevent an apocalypse event, deal with the impact and consequences of the event itself, or it may be post-apocalyptic, set after the event. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change astronomical, such as an impact event destructive, such as nuclear holocaust or resource depletion medical, such as a pandemic, whether natural or human-caused end time, such as the Last Judgment, Second Coming or Ragnarök or more imaginative, such as a zombie apocalypse, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics or alien invasion.
At the time, the armaments available to the world's various air forces were not powerful enough to produce such a result.Īpocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy, dystopia or horror in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. Joseph Pennell's 1918 prophetic Liberty bond poster calls up the pictorial image of a bombed New York City, totally engulfed in a firestorm. Own possession, that y ou may show forth theĮxcellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light : w ho were ‘ no people ’, but now are ‘ the people of God ’ : who had ‘ not obtained mercy, ’ but now have ‘ obtained mercy ’. But you yourselves are a chosen race, a royal Stumbling, and a rock of offence ’ for they stumble at the word, being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed. Same was made the head of the corner ’ and, ‘ A stone of For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for suchĪs disbelieve, ‘ The stone which the builders rejected, The Zion a chief corner stone, chosen, precious: And he that believe s on him shall not be put to shame ’. Sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ, because it is contained in scripture, ‘ Behold, I lay in
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