In one possible scenario of the world to come, an incredibly wealthy although numerically shrinking Northern population expouses the values of humanizm, ornamented with the vestiges of liberal Christianity and Judaism. Meanwhile, this future North confronts the poorer and vastly more numerous global masses who wave the flags not of red revolution, but of ascendant Christianity and Islam.
Although this sounds not unlike the racial nightmares of the Cold War years, one crucial difference is that the have-nots will be inspired by the scriptures and the language of apocalyptic, rather than by the texts of Marx and Mao. In this world, we, the West, will be the final Babylon.
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From The Next Christendom by Jenkins.
