“Americans are also the most religiously ignorant people in the Western world. Fewer than half of us can identify Genesis as the first book of the Bible, and only one third know that Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount. These are just two of the depressing statistics in Stephen Prothero's provocative and timely Religious Literacy. The author of American Jesus (2003) and the chair of the religion department at Boston University, Prothero sees America's religious illiteracy as even more dangerous than general cultural illiteracy ‘because religion is the most volatile constituent of culture, because religion has been, in addition to one of the greatest forces for good in world history, one of the greatest forces for evil’” (1).
Recently, The Daily Show did a stint where one of the reporters interviewed several people about the Rapture. Many of them believed heavily that followers of Christianity would be saved from the eventual end of days while those that did not follow Christianity would not. One interviewee was Scott Butcher, the creator of Raptureletters.com, a site that would email anyone that was left behind after the Rapture and would explain what had happened. He could not even answer a simple question when asked about a specific detail about the prophecies regarding the Rapture. The video is shown below.
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