Earlier today, I was reading a progressivist Christian's umpteenth derogation of Trump as an antichrist and Trump supporters as apostates.
As the linked post describes, Trump is in good company with Generation X, which has been literally demonized from the get-go.
"I don’t know what it was about Gen X that made people think of Satan when they thought about us."
It's very simple, and it can be seen the graphic design and advertising trade magazines of the time. They were after our parents' money, attention, property, and souls, and we were in the way.
"More than anything, this is a crisis of the spirit. My generation was vilified as the Anti-Christ incarnate, and we responded by getting married and having children and getting by in life."
https://wilderwealthywise.com/gen-x-gen-z-and-the-crisis-of-the-soul/
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
