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Our book today is The America's Syndrome of Apocalypse War

and our call to greatness by Betsy Hartman, no relation.

This is from the introduction, End Times and Endless War.

According to opinion polls, a staggering percentage of Americans

accept that the world will end in a battle in Armageddon.

In a 2010 Pew poll, 41% of respondents said they expect Jesus Christ to return to the earth by 2050.

Two years later, a radius poll found that over one fifth of the American population

believe the end of the world will happen in their lifetime,

as compared to 6% in France, 7% in Belgium and 8% in Great Britain.

Another recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute reported the 49% of Americans

think that natural disasters are a sign of the End Times.

In the months before the reported December 2, 2012, Mayan Apocalypse,

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA received so many inquiries

from children and adults terrified that a rogue planet might crash into the earth

or that the Sun might explode, that it set up a special webpage to ally their fears.

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