[DreamWeaver]

I agree 100%. We are a people who paid lip service to God and Country right after 9/11, but that is all it was. The first week or two after 9/11, churches were filled, but we are now at the lowest point in church attendences, lower than it was before 9/11. "God is watching us" and sending warnings but very few are heeding them.

[Quix]

Was it Jonathan Edwards who preached the sermon about falling into the hands of an angry Almighty God?

Bet Midler notwithstanding, it depends on one's relationship with HIM as to how one views close proximity TO HIM.

As Loving Father looking at you through Christ's Blood covering or stern exacting Judge can be very different.