Christianity
See also: Messiah#Christianity and Christian eschatologyChristian eschatology includes several views of the Messianic Age.
According to Realized eschatology, the Messianic Era, a time of universal peace and brotherhood on the earth, without crime, war and poverty, is already here. With the death of Christ himself, according to ancient roman jurisdiction on the cross, the Messianic Era had begun and will only be fulfilled by the parusia of Christ. The Book of Revelation refers to the "unveiling" or "revelation" of Jesus Christ as Christian Messiah in the apocalypse or end of the world.
The Nicene Creed expresses the belief that Christ ascended to Heaven, where he now sits at the Right Hand of God and will return to earth at the Second Coming of Christ to establish the Kingdom of God of the World to Come.
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“With two thousand years of Christianity behind him ... a man can’t see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)