Ever Want To Know What Evangelical Christians Are Thinking?

[titaniumsalute]

I grew up a Catholic, got married in a Protestant church, divorced a Protestant wife, married a girl who grew up in a Mennonite chruch, etc. I'm also a trained organist and substitute playing in various churches and denominations. I've always been fascinated by religion.

There's a great website that i found awhile ago that seems to have a good pulse on what Evangelical Christians are thinking. The Hal Lindsey report is not an in-your-face, fire-breathing delivery or anything like that. I just find it a fascinating place to see what that "group" is thinking. I recently have visited the site since all of this rapture talk this past week. I find it interesting that while most Christians believe in the "rapture" most do not believe you can predict the time or place.

I don't agree with pretty much anything but I do strive to try to learn what is going on in the minds of evangelicals. If interested here's the site.

http://www.hallindsey.com/

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. know thy enemy, eh?

[LiberalLoner]

2. Doesn't look much different from most news sites, honestly, at least

when giving it a cursory glance. I would imagine there is a right-wing slant to it as you see with FOX news. I do agree with the opinion given on the front page that Camping gives all Christians a bad name.

[titaniumsalute]

6. as a non-Christian I'd like to think that I live everyday

like it is the last day. I suppose if God/Jesus exists then they would say "gee this guy has really worked hard to be a good person. Let him in."

I love that old Carlin bit where he talks about "There's this all powerful GOD in heaven and if you don't spend everyday praying to him, loving him, etc. you'll go to this awful, horrible place where you will suffer from the fires and pain for eternity...because this God LOVES you." That is soemthing I have never understood. God loves us. but if we don't kiss his ass, pray to him, love him with all of our hearts he will send us to hell for eternity. Sounds a little like God has some low self-esteem.

[msanthrope]

3. Does Hal still think Obama's the anti-christ, or is he just paving the way?

Personally, http://www.raptureready.com/rapnews_db.php is funnier.

[bobbolink]

4. I get email from Jim Wallis every day, so I pretty much know what at least *some* Evangelicals

are thinking.

It is what the rest of us would do well to think about.. POVERTY, PEACE, JUSTICE.

Imagine.

[WinkyDink]

5. " most Christians believe in the "rapture" : DISAGREE. For one thing, Catholics DO NOT.

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, claiming more than a billion members.<1>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church

[titaniumsalute]

8. True. I should have stated Evangelical Christians.

I grew up a catholic and learned that pretty much anything we would do would send us straight to hell. Skip the rapture.

[LiberalLoner]

13. ELCA Lutherans also do not. n/t

[elleng]

7. No

[sharp_stick]

9. Has ol' Hal gone soft

he used to be all about predictin' shit cause the bible told him too.

From the Wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Lindsey

"In The Late, Great Planet Earth, Lindsey wrote that he had concluded, since there was no apparent mention of the United States of America in the books of Daniel or Revelation, that the USA would no longer be a major player on the geo-political stage by the time the tribulations of the end times arrived. <snip>

A later book, bearing the title The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon, implied that the battle of Armageddon would take place in the not too distant future, stating "the decade of the 1980s could very well be the last decade of history as we know it"<7> <snip>

Planet Earth - 2000 A.D., published in the early 1990s, states that Christians should not plan to still be on earth by the year 2000.
Lindsey's earlier predictions all assumed that the Cold War would continue indefinitely, and had eschatological significance; he explicitly identified Russia with the apocalyptic figure of Gog. He also assumed that the 1960s counterculture would eventually become the dominant culture, and become the source of prophesied "immorality" that would lead to the establishment of a false religion.

I thought he was dead, haven't really heard from him since the Soviet Union, his personal demon, collapsed underneath him and took away all that capital that he used to maintain some pretty nice digs.

[titaniumsalute]

10. Maybe he tired of getting predictions wrong so now he says it

is impossible to predict the rapture?

[KamaAina]

11. This?

[rurallib]

12. thinking?

[Lucian]

14. That guy is just as batshit insane as the rest.

No thanks.

:thumbsdown:

[LeftinOH]

15. I prefer to get my evangelical fix from www.landoverbaptist.org. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

16. No. I wish they would just sit in their church pews and think it to themselves.