An Open Letter to the Apocalypse Generation - Jeff Calkins - April 1976

Jeff Calkins

First my credentials: I'm twenty-three years old and have been associated with the Worldwide Church of God long enough to know what's going on, or most of it anyway. So here goes: The most nettlesome thing most young people find about the Church is its teaching that the "world" (meaning organized society) is going to end soon. To be honest, the idea doesn't set well with anyone under thirty - or under ninety for that matter - whose earthly existence isn't so bleak that he has nothing to lose by looking forward to a cataclysmic upheaval. I will be blunt - no matter how one intellectually acquiesces to the idea that, shortly, the world will indeed be coming to an end, one is haunted by the notion that something will be missing - that a given amount of the experience of life simply will never be realized. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library