I believe we are living in biblical times. AI is being taunted as a replacement for God. They're even talking about the ability of AI to write it's own religious texts. Yuval Noah Harari made this statement and can be found using Google. Natural disasters are on the rise, rumors of wars abound, pestilences, there are many more signs if you look around. Never in human history has so many signs mentioned in the bible converged at such a high frequency and magnitude.
People are being driven away from the faith, both believers and non-believers.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
μή τις ὑμᾶς ἐξαπατήσῃ κατὰ μηδένα τρόπον ὅτι ἐὰν μὴ ἔλθῃ ἡ
ἀποστασία πρῶτον καὶ ἀποκαλυφθῇ ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας
Let no man deceive you by any means: for
that day shall not come, except there come a
falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
So I think this is the perfect time for the End of Times. Could I be wrong? Yes of course, I'm just a stupid man. For me, however, it's hard not to see the signs of the times.
Edit: BTW IIRC you were a force to be reckoned with when CivIII first came out. At least I remember you posted a lot about the game back then.