Which just proves that you can become infected by apocalyptic while studying it.
Seen here:
"And yet the apocalyptic never leaves. It’s still there, that’s where the polls come back. It’s now assumed by hundreds of millions of Americans that the rapture is a real thing and that Jesus is coming back."
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That is said notwithstanding the fact that the country as a whole doesn't have enough population to support making it in the first place. Don't they teach geography in the schools anymore? It's pretty embarrassing coming from a Ph.D.
Meanwhile Pew polling most recently shows that 78% of the adult population is nominally Christian, with 51% Protestant and just 26% Evangelical, ground zero for the rapture theology. That puts the upper limit on who would likely believe in an apocalyptic interpretation of the Christian faith somewhere in the neighborhood of 63 million, not "hundreds of millions", if that.
This tendency to exaggerate is not limited to the sphere of religion, however, where members of all faiths fudge on polls asking how many times they attend religious services. A famous politician in America known by all, a left-wing ideologue, also frequently opines that the country is far more populous than it really is, which suggests that politics and religion often operate with the same defective spatial reasoning, not to mention the same defective enthusiasms.
Or was it the dope smoking?
