At the request of prescient author Joel Rosenberg, polling firm McLaughlin and Associates asked 1,000 adults whether recent world events are evidence of the approaching end times: “Yes,” said 42 percent overall, half of women, 75 percent of blacks and 57 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds. Rosenberg is pushing his new book on the Middle East crisis, “Epicenter.” Maybe this is why so few Americans are saving for retirement.
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Everybody dies. Whether tomorrow or fifty years from now, what difference does it make?
Live everyday like it’s your last.
But we see alot of people making alot of money off of writing books or having seminars about this theme. Doesn’t it make you wonder why Evangelical Christians are making money off their books and writing - if the end times really are coming - why gather us that much money. Do they plan to take it with them?
Personally I think it is just a bunch of baloney.
The End Tymz has been predicted for the past couple thousand years now. Try, try again. I have a video where a guy uses the Bible to predict the world was going to end in the year 2000 and part of the evidence was crop circles and monkey pox. Yeah, that went over well but the guy is still in business.
That’s my point - there is big market for this topic. Some people are making millions off of it. Just as that Ringling Circus guy said - there’s a sucker born every minute.
The rest of the peoples said GWB is working on it!
Has anyone ever thought that a religion which thinks the end of the world is a good thing is crazy?
All the answers are in the bible. Read it. I bet you wont. Oh and check out Dr. Dino videos at Drdino. com….they are FREE!
Prohpets have been predicting the end for thousands of years, like Doug said. It’s just another scare tactic to put asses in pews, and to keep the collection plate full.
Perfect! Satan has you where he wants you! Do some heavy research before you have your mind made up about this. Take a little bit of time and really explore what you think you know. It’s a scary reality out there and you are all blind. The truth is, very little of you will make it to Heaven. Look at the posts in this comment page. How many of you believe in God? Not many…and yes, it is scary…because it’s real. Life on earth is not supposed to be a picnic and if you think it is, then Satan has you. No more work needed there. He can move on to the next. Become a Christian and see how scary things get and how hard he works at you for your soul.
A bunch of televanglists were predicting that Operation Desert Storm was The Apocolypse.
Funny, they go right on making their crack-pot predictions and a lot of idiots continue to believe them . . .
“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality…..Bertrand Russell
For those so worried about everyone else’s souls, who says your Bible is the right one? Hasn’t the Bible been translated several times? How do you know you have the one true version?
With Bush generating dedicated enemies and allowing other to do so, there are, therefore, people who have a dismal outlook toward the future.
That’s to be expected.
With a new president who will lead the world toward stability, people would trust that there can and will be a good future, one they can have trust will be there for them.
Bush lacks that quality of judgment, and people sense that he is destroying this world’s interrelationships little by little, and he really doesn’t know the difference.
He is relying on the judgment of others with devious ambitions and is unable to spot the difference.
Bush is not presidential material, lacking the insight to be a world leader.
The clumsy product Bush produces is gleaned from those directing him to follow ill-conceived plans, the results of which have been exaggerated or severely misjudged.
Hey, know the truth.Yada, yada, yada. Same old scare tactics that have, as noted, been around for thousands of years.Red Foreman, where are you when we need you?
HDC recommends “Dr. Dino” (neither a doctor nor a dinosaur) for ideas on his superstition. It’s run by tax cheat Kent Hovind who thinks the world was created in six days. You know, if you have a round Earth then it’s quite impossible to create all living animals in one day because it can be day in America but it will be night in China. So unless “Dr. Dino” still believes the Earth is flat you can’t have a six day creation.
“He will come unfailingly when a measure of peace has been restored, when the principle of sharing is at least in process of controlling economic affairs, and when churches and political groups have begun to clean house. Then He can and will come; then the Kingdom of God will be publicly recognised, and will no longer be a thing of dreams and of wishful thinking and orthodox hope.”….A.A. BAILEY
know the truth,
If a person that pays taxes, donates blood, volunteers, and makes a positive impact on society goes to hell because he’s not a christian; while some drunkard child raping priest goes to heaven only because he is a christian, I’ll go to hell.
Such prophets of doom are motivated by greed and pride. Pay no heed to such false prophets for they are little more than chaff to be blown away by the wind.
Well said Courtney
If all one need do to go to heaven is by paying taxes, donating blood, volunteering, and making positive impacts on society. Then what point is there in being a Christian??? There would be no point.It is of course, nice to know that God forgives even the most heinous of sins. (Face it, he forgave ALL of yours by that whole John 3:16 bit didn’t he?) It is a bit disturbing to know however that human beings believe themselves to be more righteous than God. This of course, stems from pride. The capital and chief cause of all sins.
How do we know that the pedophile priests even asked for forgiveness? The Church covered this whole thing up for years. That to me is just as bad as the priests who were the wrong doers.
I belive in God and forgiveness but I don’t believe in the church anymore. Organized religion has gone too far and set up their own rules according to how big they want their collection plates to get.
I’ll take my chances with the God that gave me a brain with which to reason.
BTW, I graduated from a Baptist Bible College and was a preacher’s wife for several years. I know how the church can turn on one of its own because “they are right and you are wrong” mentality. Again, its that pride thing.
It seems to me that everyone has their own version of God that they believe in, which makes calling your self a Christian rather trivial. It seems absurd that any religion would claim the to have God’s divine truth alone. Especially since every religion claims to know God’s truth, while dismissing every other relgion as a false belief. I think, if there is a God, (im not sure) that he would judge us on what we did with our lives, not which religion we claim.
“Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”Thomas Jefferson
I wonder what these Evangelical Christians who hate homosexuals will do if and when they see God face to face and it turns out that She didn’t like their hatred?
Doug,Yeah, each generation since Jesus have been convinced, and saw all the signs that they were in the “End Times.” Given that the universe is finite, and there’s someone left to keep on predicting, one of ‘em is bound to be right sometime.
Ya, baby, lets nuke em all and get the party started! Woo-Woo . . . Rust never sleeps!!!
Churches are composed of imperfect people. This is of course, no big secret. Now it is only logical that if churches are made of imperfect people, that their actions (even as a Church) are going to be imperfect. This of course, does not excuse their behavior or exonerate them from personal responsibility. This is why God will judge ALL of us not just the non-Christians.
The “end times” are real and we will witness them. Man has never before had the ability to kill billions with weapons of mass destruction as we now can. Of course, not all life on earth will end but billions will be killed.
Viva La Revolucion Blanco!!
hi, befor september 11 2001 i dont believe in apocalypse but now i think that is inevitable becose of the human doing, the war against terrorists in using Strength methodes and without helping the poor populations will be lost, not becose there are not a powerfull rigfht nation or Ideal but if now there are not a pwerfull minds in the terrorists groups that will change and surely destrucdt the humanity.