Posted on 12/14/2022 6:44:46 PM PST by marshmallow
Periods of catastrophe and anxiety, such as the coronavirus pandemic, have historically led some people to anticipate that the destruction of the world as we know it – the “end times” – is near. This thinking often has a religious component that draws on sacred scripture. In Christianity, for example, these beliefs include expectations that Jesus will return to Earth after or amid a time of great turmoil.
In the United States, 39% of adults say they believe “we are living in the end times,” while 58% say they do not believe we are living in the end times, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.
Christians are divided on this question, with 47% saying we are living in the end times, including majorities in the historically Black (76%) and evangelical (63%) Protestant traditions. Meanwhile, 49% of Christians say we are not living in the end times, including 70% of Catholics and 65% of mainline Protestants who say this. Viewed more broadly, the share of Protestants who say we are living in the end times is greater than the corresponding share among Catholics (55% vs. 27%).
About three-in-ten or fewer people from non-Christian religions (29%) and those with no religious affiliation (23%) say we are living in the end times. (Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and other smaller non-Christian religious groups are included in the survey and represented in the “other religions” category, but there were not enough respondents in these groups to analyze separately.)
In addition, Black Americans (68%) are much more likely than Hispanic (41%), White (34%) and Asian (33%) Americans to believe humanity is living in the end times. And adults in Southern states (48%) are more likely to say this than those living in the Midwest (37%), Northeast (34%) or West (31%).
Americans without college......
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Count me as one.
Soon, most if not all of the other 6-in-10 will believe it too
OTOH, many, many will still believe that Satan’s anti-messiah is “the messiah”
And THEN it will be on like Donkey Kong all the way to Armageddon.
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We have been living in the end times since Jesus died (and rose again)
They may know more about it than most of us do.
I am one as well, but if I’m wrong, we are heading to a new societal collapse and renewing ourselves for a new society.
It’s hard not to believe so after reading the news each day.
If not the end times of the entire world, the end times of the United States as a sovereign representative democracy (republic) with a Christian moral foundation and freedoms defined in the Constitution, and with a thriving middle class.
That is mostly gone already. We are a civilization and culture in an advanced state of decay.
Since it’s just the two of us...
I think about 1916 or so in Russia, or the late 20s in Germany or the 70s in Cambodia... and on and on.
They all must have thought the end was near. And it was! For many of them...
Yet here we are.
Now I’ll give you.... this has a global feel to it... never seen that before.
What do you think?
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If we could just get pine bark beetles to go after blue or pink hair.........
The church age Dispensation is winding down and we are nearing the midnight hour. As for America? I don’t believe her outlook is very good.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4114023/posts
I’ve been waiting for some push back against the deep state since LBJ and the FBI took out Kennedy.
But for the end to happen as has been laid out, not only do they have to elevated, but push back against them has to be derailed.
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Pretty much...
An end of an era, a tribulation even, but not the apocalypse with the Anti-christ and all
The Fatima message is real
There’s something out there and it is not the “Holy Spirit” so to speak.
I don’t preach but I have the God of My Understanding and whoa the situation not pleasant out there.
I seek sanity and peace, sobriety and serenity in my world the only way to deal with the other stuff “out there”.
With no clear definition of End Times, it could be a day, or it could be 10,000 years, 100,000 years or a million years.
It’s the spirit of antichrist.
The goats are empowered by same and by principalities and powers.
Setting the stage for the debut of Satan’s anti-messiah.
What’s to come upon planet Earth will be unequaled.
And it’s accelerating towards those days.
Keep praying and keep looking up!
The other 6/10 are in for a surprise
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