Oh, good lord yes. I get the impression that the majority of Christians think this guy is a nutball just as much as the majority of secular folks or whatever other group do. It's totally a minority thing, and really dogmatically questionable.

. . . ask the Romans about that sort of apocalypse. Take a long view of history, and the world - the world as we know it - ends all the damned time.

Hee, precisely. I figure "the world as we know it" is ending every day. The world today sure as heck isn't the same one my grandparents grew up with, or that my parents grew up with, or even that I grew up with. That's life. The world moves on.