Seriously. How many people here think the end of the world will happen within their lifetime?

Question

John Hagee, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and a huge chunk of the christian right are always talking about how the end of the world is near (that it's already begun) and that Jesus is coming to save them.

Do you believe this despite the fact that numerous christian pundits of the past also predicted the end of the world within their lifetimes and were proven wrong?

Doesn't this end of world talk ever get old?

Answer 1

These guys have been pushing this foolishness since year one. It brings in the bucks so they can live in mansions and drive Rolls Royce's. These guys are haters... they hate gays, atheist and liberals and if they can scare people enough they can get support for their hate.

Answer 2

Unfortunately the world will not end as believed by the "religious right", that is simply a political ploy to get voters to fear, fear is what keeps them in power. If they were true christians they would not fear judgment day, they would rejoice at the idea. People have been talking about the end of the world since Ancient Greek times, the only thing that will happen is eventually we will all come to live in a very different world than what we are used to if things dont change and if we dont start ignoring these people and start thinking for ourselves.

Answer 3

All through Christian history, Christian intellectuals (and no that is not an oxymoron) have thought the world was ending soon, in their lifetime. Jesus even promised it a couple of dozen times! Paul, who came along years later and never even knew Jesus, said it too. And Christian writers and thinkers have been saying it ever since.

I think it's just human nature. If you really want something to happen, you convince yourself that it's happening. It's easy to interpret the signs--wars, earthquakes, false prophets--as signs of the end, but these things have been going on all this time!

I had a friend in college who was absolutely convinced the end would come in 1984. He actually dropped out of college because there wasn't much time! He was a Jehovah's Witness.

Answer 4

I am more concerned with the natural aspects of this happening because of the polar shift that is coming around 2012.
Many ancient civilizations have predicted this as well as scientists of today following the ever changing magetic fields of the Earth.
The sun has already suffered a magnetic shift and rotation change.

I can also tell you that the Muslim religion is NOT THEE only religion trying to usher in the end of days!!!!
The Christians and Jewish leaders are working on this as well.

Only time will tell.

Answer 5

I try not to subscribe to such thinking, because people have thought that the end was near practically since the beginning of Christianity itself. Not only that, but I think that it's rather foolish for people like Hagee and Robertson to convince themselves and others that the the End Times are here, because according to the Bible, only God knows when the end will come.

Answer 6

The Robertson/Falwell gaggle make money from predicting the end of the world. George Bush seems to be trying to make it happen. We should be safe if we make it till 2009.

Answer 7

Guy over on Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit was carrying a sign saying it's going to happen tomorrow. Carries it everyday. Who knows, today might be the day he's right.

Answer 8

I've often thought about when people from the 1600's, 1700's and 1800's thought the world was going to end.

Maybe if we concentrated less on when the world was going to end, our lives could be that much better.

Answer 9

people who predict the end of the world have a pretty bad track record.
Christ was one of the first to predict this and his followers have been expecting it any minute for thousands of years.

Answer 10

I knew a classmate of mine who quit school in his junior year and got married because they were touting the world was going to end in 1974. Last time I looked, we were still here.