are Bush and America trying to fulfil some biblical prophecies ?

Havel.2002, you scare me when you use the large type.

Please don’t do that.

Havel, the evangelical Chrstians aren’t running the United States of America. Really. They may think they are, but they aren’t. Trust me.

Besides, I have proof–if they were running the country, the newly dead-butch Rosie O’Donnell wouldn’t still be running around loose, she’d be locked up somewhere getting her sexual orientation “reeducated”. :smiley:

gosh Duck Duck, you hade me thinking that Rosie was dead for a moment there…

Havel; 10% you say support Israel in your country. What country is that? Do you have some cite that shows this and the connection you claim to evangelical Christianity?

Beyond that I’m having hard time getting my head around the poll cited in that Time article. It would be nice to see the poll itself, but I guess Time couldn’t spin it so well if they showed us the real thing.

There is no doubt that eschatological thinking is far more prevalent in America than elsewhere in the Christian world. I am certain that it does influence policy in some vague manner. In the least through political pressure brought from the likes of The Moral Majority, and the evangelists. Nevertheless I am astonished at the Time figures, they seem quite high. The literature I have read so far on the matter leads me to believe that the poll questionnaire must have been pretty loosely formulated. Previous studies have shown that a bare majority of Americans do believe in the Apocalypse, however only a fraction believe that it will happen in the near future and most state that they do not know or that it is most probably very far off.

Sparc

I understand the universe will explode in 90 billion years.

What can we, as citizens, do?

I intend to devote as much activism to confronting this problem as to the OP’s vague malaise.

Assuming this figure is true, it is likely that more than 10% of the population in your country do not have much sympathy for Israel.

What percentage of those people have religion-based motives for their views? I’d be interested to hear your conclusions.