ABSTRACT
The July 2002 issue of Time magazine featured the prescient title ‘The Bible and the Apocalypse’ emblazoned on a cross engulfed in fl ames. This blasphemous image underscored the degree to which American popular culture has become obsessed with the ‘end of the world’. For some, 9/11 was an indication that the end was near. On that day, the prophecies of the Bible's book of Revelations suddenly seemed to be manifest in our own backyard. Eerily coincident with the millennium, when the duel between the Lord Almighty and the beast Satan will take place, some believed it signalled the End. And according to Time, 59 per cent of Americans now believe that the events depicted in Revelations will come true. 1
