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It's the end of the world -- on NBC
'Revelations' a mini-series of religion-flavored drama

NEW YORK (AP) -- For some viewers, NBC's miniseries based on the Book of Revelation may seem the latest signpost on the road to Armageddon....

...Frederick Schmidt, a biblical scholar at Southern Methodist University, calls "Revelations" the latest pop-culture agent of "speculation that veers away from theory into superstition."

A similar assessment comes from Jerry B. Jenkins, who with Tim LaHaye co-authored the hugely popular "Left Behind" novels, chronicling the fate of those stranded on Earth after Christ lifts the faithful up to heaven at the end of the world. Jenkins has described "Revelations" as "a mishmash of myth, silliness and misrepresentations of Scripture (which) seems to draw from everywhere and nowhere."...