My Unfiltered Ideas About Our Dystopian and Apocalyptic Future

I have been trying to re-read Robert Hugh Benson’s 1907 novel “Lord of the World”.

Recommended by many Catholics including Pope Francis, this novel was able to foresee much of the crisis the Church is experiencing today.

As a writer and a Catholic, I also have some ideas in mind about the things we may see in a dystopic future.

These ideas are very raw, but I would like to share some of them with you today. I do not mean to make a prediction on this note.

Who knows what could and could not happen? All we can do is reflect upon the events happening around us and wonder how the world could be like in the years ahead.

Written like a prologue to a novel, you can read some of my thoughts below about the world’s dystopian future:

When There Was No Faith On Earth

“And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
- Luke 18:8 (NRSVCE)

The war between the largest religious extremist organization and the allied forces of secular political powers has left the world in utter devastation for many years. Food shortage was everywhere. Natural disasters have become a common occurrence as well due to tragic changes in global climate.

In almost every possible perspective, the world was headed towards its apocalyptic end. That is, until one unlikely factor intervened: