In 2020, evolutionary biologist Gad Saad published his The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. He describes how in the postmodern Western world many ideas gradually arose that received a dogma-like status, that can only be criticized or renounced at the cost of being censured or even cancelled. In fact, Saad views these ideas presenting themselves as uncontradictable axiomatic principles as idea pathogens, comparable to how viruses and other parasites invade their hosts in order to take control of it and eventually destroy that host.

Apocalyptic literature is a specific prophetic genre. The expectation of end-time events led to a transformation in outlook, the result of which was apocalypticism. Post-exilic prophecy became concerned with God’s judgment and the problem of salvation. I am interested in the way in which apocalyptic texts shape faith and hope. My intention is to examine how apocalypticism uniquely contributes to the faith. Why do people write supposed revelations in this kind of a style? Why is it such a sudden increase in the interest in apocalyptic after exile? Why it becomes apocalyptic dominant?