tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post4546622273750799268..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: $500,000Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-13510407799208336622007-09-23T13:10:00.000-07:002007-09-23T13:10:00.000-07:00I tend to mistrust these numbers, since many who a...I tend to mistrust these numbers, since many who attest to such beliefs seem to me likely to be signaling moral or social identification through these reports rather than factual, instrumental beliefs. In a society in which the media and political institutions generally better reflected the secularism of the population (and the Consitution) I suspect many of this 25% would attest in their statements -- as most of them already do in their actual conduct -- to more secular beliefs, or to End Times that were more conspicuously a matter of figurative significance than literal expectation. This is not to deny, of course, the pernicious impact of some literal-minded bloody-minded fundamentalists of this sort. But even the technoscientific imaginary is hardly immune to the derangements of such belief -- as witness the small handful of people who seriously espouse the more apocalyptic variations of Singularitarianism or the more genocidally luddite variations of Deep Ecology.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-73816307092861771362007-09-23T08:31:00.000-07:002007-09-23T08:31:00.000-07:00To those that believe that we're living in the End...To those that believe that we're living in the End Times then that's irrelevant. Come Judgement Day you won't be asked to pay off your debts.<BR/><BR/>I've heard that 25% of Americans are End Timers I have a hard time believing that myself but it might explain Bush's approval rating.jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.com