"Jerry, I sometimes believe that we are heading very fast for Armageddon right now."
--Ronald Reagan, speaking to the Rev. Jerry Falwell
"My fellow Americans, , and we will no longer be oppressed we will no longer be oppressed by the fascism of Christianityby the fascism of beauty, 'cause I see you all sittin' out there tryin' your hardest not to be ugly, tryin' your hardest not to fit in, tryin' your hardest to earn your way into Heaven, but let me ask you... Do you wanna be in a place that's filled with a bunch of... ASSHOLES!?!?
-- Marilyn Manson at the 1997 MTV Music Video Awards
In my opinion the apocalypse...Must be primarily an internal,
spiritual event, and only in a secondary way an external catastrophe. The gates of the watchtowers...are mental constructions. When they are opened, they will admit(Satan) not into the physical world but into our subconscious minds...The apocalypse is a mental transformation that will occur, or is presently collective unconscious of the human race.
--Donald Tyson, "the Enochian Apocalypse"
But someday, in a stronger age than this decaying, self-doubting present, he must yet come to us, the redeeming man, of great love and contempt, the creative spirit whose compelling strength will not let him rest in any aloofness or any beyond, whose isolation is misunderstood by the people as if it were flight from reality- while it is only his absorption, immersion, penetration into reality, so that, when he one day emerges again into the light, he may bring home the redemption of this reality: it's redemption from the curse that the hitherto reigning ideal had laid upon it. The man of the future, who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell-stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and antinihilist; this victor over God and nothingness- he must come one day.