Our modern understanding of the word unfortunately has CHANGED ( much like we use the word — ‘gay’ today ).
It now means an event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale.
It now means an event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale.
Not for me. I'll never use "apocalypse" in that way--just as I never use "alibi" to mean an excuse or "deter" to mean dissuade. And I hardly ever use "gay" in the way it's usually used today.