Wild weather, predictions go hand-in-hand
05.06.11
Cady is a communications director at College Heights Christian Church in Joplin. Like many, she was never convinced May 21 was going to be the beginning of the end, even though doomsday preacher Harold Camping was sure Jesus was coming back that day.
But she also doesn’t think the crazy weather lately is just a coincidence, and she wonders whether God’s trying to tell us something.
The “earthquake, tsunamis, tornadoes — it seems like one thing after another,” Cady said.
She’s among a majority of white evangelicals — 59 percent to be exact — who say they think natural disasters are a sign from God. That’s according to a survey the Public Religion Research Institute and Religious News Service conducted after Japan’s earthquake and tsunami. The poll also found, though, only about 38 percent of the population in general blames God when Mother Nature is in a bad mood.
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Disasters and end-of-the-world fears seem to go hand in hand, making doomsday predictions especially conversation-worthy in 2011.
Source: Columbia Daily Tribune