Nearly four in ten U.S. residents blame weather on “end times”

Reuters ^ | Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:06pm GMT | Mary Wisniewski

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Nearly four in ten U.S. residents say the severity of recent natural disasters such as Superstorm Sandy is evidence the world is coming to an end, as predicted by the Bible, while more than six in ten blame it on climate change, according to a poll released on Thursday.

The survey by the Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with the Religion News Service found political and religious disagreement on what is behind severe weather, which this year has included extreme heat and drought.

Most Catholics (60 percent) and white non-evangelical Protestants (65 percent) say they believe disasters like hurricanes and floods are the result of climate change. But nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of white evangelical Protestants say they think the storms are evidence of the “end times” as predicted by the Bible. Overall, 36 percent point to end times and 63 percent to climate change. …

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GOD is not religion. He is the creator of all things. Religion is politics.

[bmwcyle]

These people are the liberals that history starts every morning they wake up.

[Wpin]

I guess I am jaded, there is only one God...consequently, there is only one religion that is true. To me that religion is not politics, it is the description of that system and belief by which we worship God. The attack on religion is rooted in evil...think about it.