Does this explain why many of us are happy to drive our gas guzzlers to oblivion and pollute as much as we like, wage war like there's no tomorrow and elect a president who has driven the US foreign relations and economy down the deepest drain. After all it doesn't really matter if Jesus is about to whisk us all off to heaven in a couple of decades right?
Source: Sam Harris quoting a Gallup poll
"22% of Americans claim to be certain, literally certain that Jesus is going to come down out of the clouds sometime in the next 50 years. Another 22% think he probably will sometime in the next 50 years."
2007-11-23 20:50:13 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe it was this same 44% that elected our president, no? I mean, that was the vote they marketed for. If these people believed more in themselves and their communities, he wouldn't have been elected and our country wouldn't be in the sad state it's in. To start with. The whole "washing away our sins" in action right in front of us - and for what? The only way "sins" are washed away is by massive change and being proactive with solutions.
2007-11-23 21:14:30 · answer #1 · answered by curiousgeorge 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no person alive today will see Jesus come back and the advent back became into assume to be by employing the Bible till now all of you in this room have exceeded and the individuals in that room died almost 2000 years in the past. So if we take that reference he has already back. looks to me that we are informed an incredible variety of distinctive thoughts approximately how he will come back murdering those that dont believe and taking some up in rapture that we get the heavens gate cult with the suicide pacts. lots of the christian faith is ill, twisted and downright inhumane and that i be attentive to greater approximately it than the different faith, yet I do think of the others are bent on ideas administration besides. Dont assume Jesus returning..
2016-09-30 01:56:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It says that 44% of Americans believe in a primitive dominionist Middle Eastern creed that preaches Armageddon and prays to a despotic desert 'god'.
So of course many of them will not be worried about the Earth, or our children's future.
"Environmentalists' energy plan is the repudiation of America and Christian destiny, which is Jet Skis, steak on the electric grill, hot showers, and night skiing."
"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"
(Ann Coulter)
You will also find that consumerism is mostly replacing religion in the US, both religionists and atheists can be avid consumers.
"In The Dollar We Trust"
2007-11-23 21:14:26 · answer #3 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well said. So true.At this rate Jesus must have cancelled his visit to earth again. The end of the evil world is near.Time for a new world free of evil and discrimination, where everyone is equal and the live of humans and animals and birds wont be threatened.
2007-11-23 21:02:35 · answer #4 · answered by live and let live 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't quite politically agree with the picture you paint of the country, but for now I'll assume that it's as you say.
I don't think religiousness is the sole or even a major cause of people's self-centeredness and lack of foresight. Even if Jesus doesn't come in the next 50 years, many/most adults will be dead by then, so the state of the world won't be their problem any more.
2007-11-23 20:54:04 · answer #5 · answered by Marj 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well Jesus did say that he would come back when wars were many and people lived decadent and immoral existences. The way I see it, Christians should be pro-war and pro-sin because to say otherwise is to put up a big fat banner on the face of the Earth saying, "Christ, you are not welcome here." Correct me if I am wrong, but that doesn't seem like a very polite way to address your personal Lord and Saviour.
2007-11-23 20:56:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It means that you don't understand statistics very well.
56% of Americans believe that the second coming of Jesus will not be in our lifetime.
2007-11-23 20:59:27 · answer #7 · answered by wilrycar 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means that 44% of americans are religious zealots that have no desire to truly search for answers but instead choose to believe in supernatural answers in lieu of scientific ones
2007-11-23 20:57:20 · answer #8 · answered by Biker4Life 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are many signs occuring in our world that meant to say that the end is near....
2007-11-23 20:59:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Initially, I thought it shows they have faith, but it is a cynical kind of faith and I see what you mean. They may believe in Jesus, but they certainly don't believe in his message of peacde and love. It is this hypocrisy that makes me despair.
2007-11-23 20:53:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋