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DESCRIPTION:This month Atheist Advocates of SF features a talk by writer Kel Munger on 
 America's fascination with the apocalypse.\n \nWhile the idea of apocalypse 
 dates to before the Christian era, Americans have refined it to a gory, 
 glorious epic-and then exported it to the rest of the world, with 
 implications for the environment and international relations, not to 
 mention the economy. What is it that leads Americans to apocalypse, why do 
 we tend to favor a pessimistic version of the "End of Days," and why are we 
 so hung up on the destruction of the world?\n \nThis presentation offers a 
 brief history of apocalypse in Western thought (with special attention to 
 the American additions), as well as a few hypotheses on why Americans are 
 exceptionally fascinated with Armageddon.\n \nKel Munger is a writer and 
 editor at the Sacramento News & Review, where she covers books, theater, 
 religion, GLBTQ and feminist issues. Her journalism has won awards from the 
 California Newspaper Publishers Association, and she is also a 
 prize-winning poet and fiction writer.  Her fascination with apocalypse 
 dates to her upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/01/18689235.php
SUMMARY:America's Fascination with the Apocalypse
LOCATION:Women's Building, 3543 18th (at Valencia), San Francisco\nAudre Lorde Room 
 (Upstairs)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/01/18689235.php
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