Hallelujah! Nearly half of all Americans expect Jesus to return by 2050... but 31 per cent say an asteroid might wipe us out before then

 

 

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Last updated at 4:03 PM on 22nd June 2010

 

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Nearly half of Americans expect Jesus Christ to return by 2050 yet 31 per cent believe humans are doomed to suffer the same fate as dinosaurs and be wiped out by an asteroid, according to a poll.

 

Optimistic Americans, though, are preparing for an era of improvement in some areas with 71 percent confident cancer will be cured by 2050 and 66 per cent expecting artificial limbs to be working better than real ones.

 

The poll, conducted by Pew Research Centre for the People and the Press, revealed a generally upbeat population with a confident view on the future but figures showed a decline on a results from 1999.

 

 

See you soon: Almost half of Americans believe Jesus Christ will return to Earth by 2050

 

 

 

Those with an overall positive outlook dropped from 81 to 64 per cent, while 72 per cent fear a major energy crisis, 58 per cent wary of another world war and 53 per cent anticipating a terrorist attack on the US involving nuclear weapons.

 

Speaking of bad news, Americans don't expect to read about it in the morning paper, as 64 per cent believe printed newspapers will cease to exist by 2050.

 

Some 63 per cent also anticipate the demise of paper money, and postmen and women should beware with 61 per cent reckoning almost no one will send letters by 2050.

 

Americans also had a mixed outlook on social issues. More than half of people polled claim the gap between rich and poor will get bigger, but appraoching three-quarters believe race relations will improve.

 

And after the success of Barack Obama, a whopping 89 per cent expect to see a woman president within 40 years and 69 per cent say a Latino president is likely.

 

Questions on immigration also threw up interesting results. A quarter called for more in order to keep the country's economy strong with 34 per cent want less.

 

Between April 21-26, 1,546 adults answered the telephone poll.

31 per cent[/color] believe humans are doomed to suffer the same fate as dinosaurs and be wiped out by an asteroid, according to a poll.

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... with 71 percent confident cancer will be cured by 2050.

 

71% + 31% > 100%

 

This poll is shit. That means at least 1 in every 100 people polled think that we'll cure cancer after the world ends. Although I suppose maybe they think cancer will be cured by early 2049 and then the world will end in late 2049, or something like that.

 

Allllllrighty then.

The two opinions do not exclude each other, so you can't sum up 71 and 31 to make 100. People who think cancer will be cured in 2050 might also think the humankind is close to an end.

Btw, I really dislike extremely religious people. They're just one step from blowing themselves and burning sinners for the sake of God.

Btw, I really dislike extremely religious people. They're just one step from blowing themselves and burning sinners for the sake of God.

 

Very true indeed.;)

Btw, I really dislike extremely religious people. They're just one step from blowing themselves and burning sinners for the sake of God.

 

I find hypocrites more despisable.

The two opinions do not exclude each other, so you can't sum up 71 and 31 to make 100. People who think cancer will be cured in 2050 might also think the humankind is close to an end.

Can't cure cancer if the world has already ended. I suppose that's not mutually exclusive, though. Just one-way exclusive.

I see the point, but they expect Jesus Christ to return in 2050, not the world to end in 2050 by an asteroid collision... or that's how I understood it.

 

:shrug:

 

I find hypocrites more despisable.

 

Well, mostly they are hypocrites because they're intolerant to other religions, and world conceptions, ways of living... Mostly being coarsely disrespectful. Which is pretty the opposite to what Jesus Christ preached.

We're talking about the daily mail here people, I have zero confidence in the way this poll was conducted.

THey asked two people. One said yes, on said no.

 

The one who said yes was taller.