[Kosh]

According to 40% of americans, amoung other things.

Americans  are largely optimistic about the future, according to the poll from the Pew Research Center For The People and The Press/Smithsonian Magazine.

By mid century, 71 per cent believe cancer will be cured, 66 per cent say artificial limbs will work better than real ones and 81 per cent believe computers will be able to converse like humans.

But Americans are also braced for a major energy crisis and a warming planet, according to the survey. More than half, or 58 per cent, fear another world war in the next 40 years and 53 per cent expect a terrorist attack against the United States using a nuclear weapon.

The poll also shows a sharp dip in overall optimism from 1999, when 81 per cent said they were optimistic about life for themselves and their families. The current poll found just 64 per cent were.

Sixty-one percent said they were optimistic about the future of the United States, compared to 70 percent in 1999. And 56 percent predicted the US economy would be stronger in 40 years, compared to 64 percent of those polled in 1999.

[Nuke]

i might have my warhead finished in about 40 years. i like that.

as for hey-sus, il have my sniper rifle ready.

[Liberator]

Which would promptly explode in your face when you pulled the trigger.

[General Battuta]

Which would promptly explode in your face when you pulled the trigger.

Why? Jesus would just turn the other cheek, man.

He's not about hurting people.

[Dilmah G]

I think he was assuming Nuke's sniper rifle was home-made.

[Goober5000]

Why? Jesus would just turn the other cheek, man.

He's not about hurting people.

The character of the second coming will be significantly different from the first.

[NGTM-1R]

The character of the second coming will be significantly different from the first.

So we're going Old Testament evil death spewing bastard again? Dammit, he was supposed to have outgrown that crap.

[General Battuta]

Why? Jesus would just turn the other cheek, man.

He's not about hurting people.

The character of the second coming will be significantly different from the first.

No, man, I really don't think the Dude is into hurting people.

The Dude just abides, you know?

[Liberator]

Why? Jesus would just turn the other cheek, man.

He's not about hurting people.

The character of the second coming will be significantly different from the first.

What he means is that when the Second Coming happens, if you are not with Him you are with The Enemy and will be treated as such.  He will come as an avenger and all that serve The Enemy will be...dealt with.

[NGTM-1R]

What he means is that when the Second Coming happens, if you are not with Him you are with The Enemy and will be treated as such.  He will come as an avenger and all that serve The Enemy will be...dealt with.

Which brings us straight back to "God is evil" territory since, you know, he finally got around to absolutely proving himself and now he's going to kill you for it.

[Liberator]

Except that outside of the engagement area he's the embodiment of Love and all that stuff.  At The End, His sole purpose will be the elimination of sin and it's promoters.

[NGTM-1R]

Except that outside of the engagement area he's the embodiment of Love and all that stuff.  At The End, His sole purpose will be the elimination of sin and it's promoters.

Which doesn't work, because it means the embodiment of love has gone totally bat**** insane and decided to kill them all.

Which sounds really stupid.

[headdie]

Except that outside of the engagement area he's the embodiment of Love and all that stuff.  At The End, His sole purpose will be the elimination of sin and it's promoters.

Which doesn't work, because it means the embodiment of love has gone totally bat**** insane and decided to kill them all.

Which sounds really stupid.

which sums up religion in my eyes so I guess in 2050 I'm gonna burn

[Dilmah G]

Something tells me we're going to be blowing each other up in 2050, and the presence of God blowing stuff up isn't going to help.

[Flipside]

American Christianity is, in certain areas, fast becoming a Doomsday Cult, and we know how those usually turn out.

Edit: it's like to 2012ers, who think Christ will return at the restart of the Mayan Calender...

"God called, he sounded angry. Said something about the First Commandment...."

[Colonol Dekker]

Why? Jesus would just turn the other cheek, man.

He's not about hurting people.

The character of the second coming will be significantly different from the first.

What he means is that when the Second Coming happens, if you are not with Him you are with The Enemy and will be treated as such.  He will come as an avenger and all that serve The Enemy will be...dealt with.

What if i'm a simple non-believer

[watsisname]

Then nothing happens and you can enjoy yourself a beer.

'tis what I do anyway. :3

[Black Wolf]

Exactly. There's no such thing as an atheist so convinced that God doesn;t exist that Jesus walking around force-lightning-ing people to death wouldn't convince them. After all, all we've ever asked for is proof, and a beardy halo bloke standing on a pile of thousands of charred corpses would pretty much do the job I reckon.

[Colonol Dekker]

That'd do it for me, would all the sins i commited as a non believer of either side come into effect?
I'd be against it on principle as the threat of a potiential bbq would do nought to sway me however.

[newman]

Meh. Good and evil, morality, sin, those are all human concepts. The idea of a supreme being, or his kid, coming down to punish us for all the bad stuff we did is so obsolete it makes my brain hurt. Humanity really should have outgrown such childlish concepts a long time ago.
I'm having a beer.