spdk1 on 05 July 2011
The book of Revelations was not written by John the Apostle, it was written by a man known as "john of Patmos" he sent a ton of letters to the church leaders of various places spouting off about insane crap and now it has been mis-attributed as being from someone that lived two centuries earlier. it's the same crap that leads folks to believe that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute even though the bible does not explicitly say this at all. To me this would be like a bunch of stuff written by Glenn Beck or Alex Jones being Cannonized in the bible because it scared people and kept them under rule.
