I didn’t have Hungarians exactly in mind at first. In the middle ages people in Europe and the Islamic world used to think Gog and Magog would emerge from Central Asia and herald the end of the world. Every time a powerful steppe empire would emerge to challenge the settled people of Europe and the Levant, like the Mongols, people there would speculate if the beginning of the end was nigh. In the context of the Cold War, Evangelical Protestants ideologically aligned with the American government convinced gullible people like my Trump- supporting coworker that the Soviet Union was Gog and Magog from the Bible, and that they would herald the end of the world. Hence why these people have the mentality of medieval peasants who think every enemy of the king is in league with the actual Devil. I told her that the whole idea is ludicrous if you have even an ounce of historical knowledge about how every generation thinks they’ll soon see the end of the world.
I didn’t have Hungarians exactly in mind at first. In the middle ages people in Europe and the Islamic world used to think Gog and Magog would emerge from Central Asia and herald the end of the world. Every time a powerful steppe empire would emerge to challenge the settled people of Europe and the Levant, like the Mongols, people there would speculate if the beginning of the end was nigh. In the context of the Cold War, Evangelical Protestants ideologically aligned with the American government convinced gullible people like my Trump- supporting coworker that the Soviet Union was Gog and Magog from the Bible, and that they would herald the end of the world. Hence why these people have the mentality of medieval peasants who think every enemy of the king is in league with the actual Devil. I told her that the whole idea is ludicrous if you have even an ounce of historical knowledge about how every generation thinks they’ll soon see the end of the world.