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 ==I don't get your edit Shii== 
 Certainly this article isn't entirely about doomsday, and yes it was right to move it from 2012 doomsday prediction. But it has a section on the end of the world. Mentioning the doomsday in the lead is necessary as the lead must summarize the article's content.   
 :I don't see any references for the words ""many"" or ""Armageddon"" (i.e., the Christian Apocalypse).    
 ::That's a question of wording. Easily fixed. No reason to remove a section of the article's content from mention in the lead.   

 == Definition of Millenarianism == 

 My dictionary defines millenarianism this way: 

 millenarianism |ˌmiləˈne(ə)rēəˌnizəm| 
 noun 
 the doctrine of or belief in a future (and typically imminent) thousand-year age of blessedness, beginning with or culminating in the Second Coming of Christ. It is central to the teaching of groups such as Plymouth Brethren, Adventists, Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses. 
 • belief in a future golden age of peace, justice, and prosperity. 

 You seem to have re-named the article based on a vocabulary error. Doomsday prediction was much closer to what this is about.   Senor Cuete 
 :I think your dictionary has mixed up millenarianism with millenialism. Quoting the Wikipedia article: ""Millenarianism (also millenarism) is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming major transformation of society, after which all things will be changed in a positive (or sometimes negative or ambiguous) direction. Millennialism is a specific form of millenarianism based on a one-thousand-year cycle, especially significant for Christianity."" This is the accurate term. For example, look at this editorial I read in my local paper last week:     

 ::Unfortunately neither Wikipedia nor your local paper qualifies as an authoritative source!    

 My dictionary is the New Oxford American Dictionary. I think that your source is mixed up. Also the article isn't about either of these subjects, it's about the 2012 Doomsday Prediction, which could be theoretically an off-shoot or sub species of one of these concepts.   Senor Cuete 

 ::Milennialism and millenarianism are two words for the same thing. See here:  you will also note that the word is correctly used here - it can be used about doomsday prophecies without any paradise afterwards.  

 :That's not what the article you refer to says. I agree entirely with Senor Cruete. To most people, millenarianism is an entirely positive concept. By definition it looks forward to the millennium, as Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary rightly confirms. Merriam Webster likewise defines it as  
 ::1  belief in the millennium of Christian prophecy 

 ::2  belief in a coming ideal society and especially one created by revolutionary action, 

 :while the Oxford Dictionary gives: 

 ::the belief in a future thousand-year age of blessedness, beginning with or culminating in the Second Coming of Christ.  

 :The doomsday anticipated by most lay end-of-the-worlders and fans of imminent planetary destruction (the idea widely promoted by the History Channel and now by Sony Pictures Digital Inc., which is basically what this article was always designed to address, despite the later inclusion of one or two more positive ideas) is merely an offshoot of the idea, and emphatically doesn't look forward to any millennium, or they would be more optimistic about it. Therefore 'millenarianism' is inappropriate in the title, since it doesn't apply to all the ideas represented  whereas 'doomsday' is intrinsic to Christian millenarian teaching at least.    

 Also the 2012 date comes from the Maya Long Count Calendar, not from the Christian