“For the end of the world was long ago,” poet G.K. Reflecting on this reality, it struck me how often such doom has fallen on human society, how often throughout the course of history people have endured the end of the world they knew and loved. D-Day meant doom: If all things went well, doom for Nazi Germany. Should the storming of Normandy’s beaches fail, the Western Allies had no contingency plan. Little had I realized, before visiting the museum, how desperate was the attack on Normandy during the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944. It won’t surprise you, then, that my wife and I took the opportunity to indulge our nerdiness before the Southern Baptist Convention’s recent annual meeting by visiting New Orleans’ fantastic World War II Museum. That’s the sort of fun fact you might expect to hear from a kid raised by two history nerds – that is, by me and my wife. My 10-year-old son informed me last week that some nameless, Italian dental genius invented false teeth in 701 B.C., soon after the far away kingdom of Israel was crushed by Assyrian armies and just as those same armies besieged the kingdom of Judah’s capital city of Jerusalem.
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