Dry Wall Nightmare: The Demons in Our Nation

         “DEMONS DESTROY AMERICA” is the ostentatious writing on a wall in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Sheepshead Bay is a neighborhood of Brooklyn mostly known for its high Russian population and multitudes of people who share in the belief that the United States is a country that is going nowhere fast, according to a friend who resides in Sheepshead Bay. In a sense, it is plausible for me to see how someone would have the means to write something like that on a public space. Flipping through news channels and reading internet articles about what is going on in the world does not help support the case that the United States, or the world for that matter, is a place of full love. In a way, I agree with the author. Demons do destroy America. Although it not so much the people as individual “demons” that destroy our nation, but the demons that exist within evil and violent actions. This quote makes me think of the pre-millennialist notion about the second coming of Jesus.  Before any glimmer of hope or salvation can be found,  human beings put themselves through suffering.

        The pre-millenialists are a group of fundamentalists who believe in Jesus’ second coming arriving before the end of the millennium. In the time prior to Jesus’ much awaited arrival, the world would be crumbling. Several bouts of extreme violence, irreparable relationships and the lust for power will become all too familiar to a race of beings that have been damned from the beginning they started to doubt the power of Christ. Unlike the post-millennialists who believe in creating a world of God on Earth through understanding and compromise, pre-millennialists are the anxious bodies of the religious world. Viewing the actions of many evil and conniving people have convinced many pre-millennialists that the end is nearing. Instead of attempting to create a utopia where everyone has a chance to redeem him or herself to the Lord, pre-millennialists offer a way of helping as trying to convince people to become one of them.

           The emotion of disdain, disgust and distrust this quote highlights is a frightening concept to grapple with despite me not sharing the religious beliefs many pre-millennials have. It is frightening because it is the world and society that one grows in. A threat to safety, although it may seem farfetched, can impose many limitations on how a person grows spiritually.