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When asked why he hung a horseshoe over his door, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr replied, “I am told that they bring luck even to those who do not believe in them.”

I think there is an analogous position for all of us “spiritual, not religious” people and atheists today: We do not believe in the Christian prophecy of End Times — the final, tumultuous period characterized by severe global tribulation before the resurrection of Jesus Christ — but when we read daily news headlines we feel as if we’ve been cast as extras in the latest blockbuster armageddon movie.

We grew up believing in science, progress, democracy, and better living through data. Now our quotidian realities have algorithms devouring our attention, monopolies syphoning our wallets, democracies wobbling like IKEA bookcases, weekly catastrophes, natural disasters, wars, and public executions, along with disinformation straight out of the dystopian novels we read in high school.

We don’t call it Revelation; we call it “the news,” but from 40,000 feet they look eerily similar: the sense that we’re living in........

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