{"id":1929,"date":"2013-04-02T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2013-04-02T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T21:00:36","slug":"jesus-will-return-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/04\/02\/jesus-will-return-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Jesus will return soon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned I have a church in my back yard. Well, it&#8217;s not literally in my back yard, but their back yard abuts with mine. Sunday mornings, their hymn singing fills my morning. It&#8217;s actually rather nice.<\/p>\n<p>However, they have a sign. A big neon sign in their front yard that I must pass whenever I take my pups for their daily constitutional. Upon that sign is generally an annoying message. Last fall it proclaimed, &#8220;Are you ready for when Jesus returns?&#8221; It&#8217;s spring. The sign still says that because winter evidently made it too difficult to swap out messages.<\/p>\n<p>So, I found this Pew Forum survey someone annoying.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Easter is one of the most important religious holidays of the year for many Christians \u2013 a time to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2010\/06\/22\/section-3-war-terrorism-and-global-trends\/\">2010 Pew Research Center survey<\/a>, roughly half (48%) of Christians in the U.S. say they believe that Christ will definitely (27%) or probably (20%) return to earth in the next 40 years. Somewhat fewer (38%) say this definitely will not happen (10%) or probably will not happen (28%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds about right. Here&#8217;s a handy pie chart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/uploadedImages\/Topics\/Religious_Affiliation\/Christian\/PF_13.03.22_JesusReturn-02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/uploadedImages\/Topics\/Religious_Affiliation\/Christian\/PF_13.03.22_JesusReturn-02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Christian\/US-Christians-Views-on-the-Return-of-Christ.aspx\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve mentioned I have a church in my back yard. Well, it&#8217;s not literally in my back yard, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-fyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}