Posted on 11/29/2007 11:32:21 AM PST by SJackson
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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Is there any wonder why we have so many Doom and Gloomers here on FR? Apparently D&G pays well.
Well, in any event, we're 400 years closer to the end.
A large contributor to this observation is the media's reaction, or lack of reaction, to good news from the economy to the war against terrorism and everything in between.
Here is something from a real historian: The Hispanic Challenge By Samuel P. Huntington
By 2050, the Latino population will have tripled, the Census Bureau projects. One in four Americans will be Hispanic by midcentury, twice the current ratio.
It's the fertility surge among unwed Hispanics that should worry policymakers. Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country – over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly 1 ½ times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003 (the latest year for which data exist), compared with 28 children for unmarried white women, 22 for unmarried Asian women, and 66 for unmarried black women.
Forty-five percent of all Hispanic births occur outside of marriage, compared with 24 percent for whites and 15 percent for Asians. Only the percentage for blacks – 68 percent – is higher. But the black population is not going to triple over the next few decades.
The 1965 Immigration Act: Anatomy of a Disaster
And I will save going into the details that this country is headed for a major train wreck in terms of its entitlement programs that will start going belly up in less than a decade. This country is facing some major challenges and our political leaders are not addressing them nor is the public properly educated and informed about them.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrl2.htm
Failed prophecies:
About 90 CE: Saint Clement 1 predicted that the world end would occur at any moment.
365 CE: A man by the name of Hilary of Poitiers, announced that the end would happen that year. It didn’t.
375 to 400 CE: Saint Martin of Tours, a student of Hilary, was convinced that the end would happen sometime before 400 CE.
500 CE: This was the first year-with-a-nice-round-number-panic. The antipope Hippolytus and an earlier Christian academic Sextus Julius Africanus had predicted Armageddon at about this year.
968 CE: An eclipse was interpreted as a prelude to the end of the world by the army of the German emperor Otto III.
1000-JAN-1: Many Christians in Europe had predicted the end of the world on this date. As the date approached, Christian armies waged war against some of the Pagan countries in Northern Europe. The motivation was to convert them all to Christianity, by force if necessary, before Christ returned in the year 1000. Meanwhile, some Christians had given their possessions to the Church in anticipation of the end. Fortunately, the level of education was so low that many citizens were unaware of the year. They did not know enough to be afraid. Otherwise, the panic might have been far worse than it was. Unfortunately, when Jesus did not appear, the church did not return the gifts. Serious criticism of the Church followed. The Church reacted by exterminating some heretics.
1000-MAY: The body of Charlemagne was disinterred on Pentecost. A legend had arisen that an emperor would rise from his sleep to fight the Antichrist.
1005-1006: A terrible famine throughout Europe was seen as a sign of the closeness of the end.
1033: Some believed this to be the 1000th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus. His second coming was anticipated. Jesus’ actual date of execution is unknown, but is believed to be in the range of 27 to 33 CE.
1147: Gerard of Poehlde decided that the millennium had actually started in 306 CE during Constantine’s reign. Thus, the world end would happen in 1306 CE.
1179: John of Toledo predicted the end of the world during 1186. This estimate was based on the alignment of many planets.
1205: Joachim of Fiore predicted in 1190 that the Antichrist was already in the world, and that King Richard of England would defeat him. The Millennium would then begin, sometime before 1205.
1284: Pope Innocent III computed this date by adding 666 years onto the date the Islam was founded.
1533: Melchior Hoffman predicted that Jesus’ return would happen in 1533 and that the New Jerusalem would be established in Strasbourg, Germany. He was arrested and died in a Strasbourg jail.
1843-MAR-21: William Miller, founder of the Millerite movement, predicted that Jesus would come on this date. A massive number of Christians accepted his prophecy.
1844-OCT-22: When Jesus did not return, Miller predicted this new date. In an event which is now called “The Great Disappointment,” many Christians sold their property and possessions, quit their jobs and prepared themselves for the second coming. Nothing happened; the day came and went without incident.
1919: Meteorologist Albert Porta predicted that the conjunction of 6 planets would generate a magnetic current that would cause the sun to explode and engulf the earth on DEC-17.
1936: Herbert W Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, predicted that the Day of the Lord would happen sometime in 1936. When the prediction failed, he made a new estimate: 1975.
1978: Chuck Smith, Pastor of Calvary Chapel in Cost Mesa, CA, predicted the rapture in 1981.
1982: Pat Robertson predicted a few years in advance that the world would end in the fall of 1982.
1986: Moses David of The Children of God faith group predicted that the Battle of Armageddon would take place in 1986. Russia would defeat Israel and the United States. A worldwide Communist dictatorship would be established. In 1993, Christ would return to earth.
1988:
Hal Lindsey had predicted in his book “The Late, Great Planet Earth” that the Rapture was coming in 1988 - one generation or 40 years after the creation of the state of Israel. This failed prophecy did not appear to damage his reputation. He continues to write books of prophecy which sell very well indeed.
1988-OCT-11: Edgar Whisenaut, a NASA scientist, had published the book “88 Reasons why the Rapture will Occur in 1988.” It sold over 4 million copies.
About 1990: Peter Ruckman concluded from his analysis of the Bible that the rapture would come within a few years of 1990.
The USA will survive even 8 years of Hillary.
:>)
The "Moral Collapse" gloom and doom seems to come mostly from the "culture war" so-cons.
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
— Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato
Blasphemy! Get thee to a nunnery!
You got a president sitting in the White House allowing the sovereign citizens of the USA to be over runned by illegal immigrants and you pretend all is ok in Camelot?
It is not good and yes, it can be destroyed and if you don’t believe me just look across the landscape! Surely you must see that the lunatics on the left could care less about the USA.
The USA has not been good to everyone living in the country and some hold it against the ones that work and make a living for their failure
Not a Founder. During the Revolution he was a capable soldier, not a political leader.
The author may well see a glass half-full as opposed to half-empty. However, he should consider that crime rates were far lower prior to 1960 than they are today, even though public reaction to permissive judges and lax law enforcement in the 1980s and 1990s did bring overall crime rates down. Prior to 1920, divorce rates were under 5% of total marriages, and until 1960, abortion was difficult to obtain for most women even in the most liberal jurisdictions. Perhaps a high percentage of births of first-born children occurred less than nine months after the wedding in colonial times, but there were few truly illegitimate children when compared to the present time.
Michael Medved is as unduly optimistic about the moral character of this nation as Ron Paul is about the benevolence of malignant foreign nations under Islamist or Communist rule.
FWIW, this statement just shows Medved's poor fact-checking. I've read several biographies of both Hamilton and Burr, without a single mention of such an awful story.
The notion was actually invented by Gore Vidal in a 1972 novel, and has made its way into the popular conciousness since.
From what I can tell, the idea was never floated by contemporaries.
Frankly, if Hamilton had made such an accusation against Burr, he would have been entirely justified in killing the SOB. But Vidal made up the whole thing.
Plenty of morality doom and gloom right here on FR, as well.
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