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"Most of us have a general sense of Christopher Columbus;s fateful voyage. Less knows is the fact that he was seeking a far grander destination than Asia (or as he called it, the Indies) when he bumped into an entirely unexpected continent. Yes, he traveled in search of spices and gold, and he wanted to claim territories and convert souls. But Columbus also sought those riches because he believed he could usher in the literal end of days.
Like Messianic Christians today, Columbus was entranced by the Book of Revelation, otherwise known as the Apocalypse of St. John, the Bible's vertiginous final chapter. He dreamed of financing a new crusade to take Jerusalem from the Muslims, the supposed precondition for bringing about the Christian millennium, and he knew that such a momentous undertaking would not be cheap."
— Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor: _End Times Fascism:_, pp. 68-69
