Re:To some Christians, the oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico h...
by oldgregg on Saturday June 05, 2010 @03:17AM
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Come on dude, this is the worse writing ever. The best quote she could find was from a COMMENTER on a random internet forum?! She tries to associate the belief of a random guy on an internet forum with 60m evangelicals. Comical.
Re:To some Christians, the oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico h...
by julius_geezer on Saturday June 05, 2010 @08:53AM
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Doesn't the doctrine of "the rapture" as now commonly understood date from about the 1890s?
As a former Evangelical, I can tell you we really did think this way. Every generation is told that they will live to see the rapture. And according to Pew, there are like 60m of these people in varying phases of commitment to this philosophy.
While your beliefs may not coincide with this particularly toxic brand of christianity, they are a significant portion of the American population and their actions can have huge impact.
If you are christian and you are offended by this article, what would you rather they have said? Would you prefer the word "evangelical christian"?