Why so many Christians and Americans in deed are obsessed with Dooms Day?

They are deluded loonies who have lost contact with reality and are now living in the fantasy world of religion.

UncleGeorge,

Obsessed? That's a strong word for 'looking forward to it.'

It's like this. We are promised to be free of this world. Right or wrong, we believe it. We are set apart from the world, in that we have God to keep us as His own. Most people wont be included. So while everybody want s to know what Oprah did, or what Dr. Phil might have said, Christians are wondering what their Lord is going to do next. It's a difficult subject to decipher, and there are a lot of people talking. So we listen and try to make sense of it with what we get.

We are all sure that these are the End Times. We think that things that are happening in the Middle East have implications for the End Times, so we watch and hear for news.

It's okay if we do that, isn't it?

well..not all American theists are obsessed with the whole "dooms day" BS.

it's a southern christian fundamentalist thing. dancing with rattle snakes, drinking poison...makes for interesting TV! but for the most part..it's BS.

I'm an atheist..that had the unfortunately pleasure of growing up in the christian church.

i escaped the insanity!

Christians,, because it is a critical part of their doctrine,, used to instill fear and force obedience. (note: Robert L and bungyow's answer)

Americans,, Most really don't think about such things, we worry more about:

what my neighbor will think of my new car, how to get my kid into a good college and still afford a boat, Traffic and Finlay,,

how to spend the next 20 years in a job I hate so I can pay off my $25,000 credit card debt, $250,000 mortgage, $30,000 car loan and $10,000 signature loan for hair plugs and liposuction.

It is not a matter of obsession with "Dooms Day". It is a matter of being prepared for the Lord's Second Coming.

[Mat 24:42] Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.

because as we come to the end of this age, the creation groans for the 2nd coming and the bible tells us what the political scene will look like at the end and it looks like it does right now, so people feel it coming and the Lord is causing a great awakening before all hell brakes loose. Those who are sensitive to the revelation are a little un easy! He who has ears let him hear!

My family (inlaws) are strict Catholics, and genuinely believe in their faith. As for myself, well I told my mother in law that when i passed i would wave at her from from one of their lower levels in heaven. Seriously there are alot of religions that are seeing "signs" of the end of days that relate to their religions. My inlaws have given me blessed candles which will be the only thing working during the days of darkness. I have kept them-u never know.....

What makes you think many are, it's something that plays well on TV but I don't think I have ever met anyone obsessed with it.

As a Marine I am happy to bring DoomsDay to every country I am sent.

I am not a christian so I don't go arround screaming, "The shy is falling!"

Concerned Christians is a group of at least 78 adults and children, led by Monte Kim Miller, (b. 1954). (Some sources incorrectly call him Kim Monte Miller). Until recently he had been a marketing executive of Proctor & Gamble. Ironically, Miller was an anti-cult activist in the 1980's. He formed Concerned Christians in the 1980's to fight the New Age movement, and what he regarded as the anti-Christian bias of the media. His newsletter, "Report from Concerned Christians" attacked feminist spirituality, the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, New Age trends in Evangelical Christianity, alternative medicine, the Coalition on Revival, Southern Baptists, Assemblies of God, the Roman Catholic Church, the World-Faith movement, and many other Christian denominations and organizations.

He produced a radio program "Our Foundation" for a during part of 1996. In 1996-JUN, he announced that he speaks for God. Some followers were disillusioned by this and left; most remained in the group. He predicted that an earthquake would wipe Denver, CO off the map on 1998-OCT-10. This prophecy proved to be false. His followers believe that Miller is the one of the two witnesses mentioned in the Book of Revelation, chapter 11. He predicted his own death, and that of his co-prophet, in 1999-DEC in Jerusalem. He expected to be resurrected three days later. This prophecy also failed. He taught that his group are the only true Christians; salvation can only be earned by repenting and following him. 6 Presumably the remaining 2 billion Christians and 4 billion non-Christians in the world will all go to Hell.

The Family:"

This group is unrelated to a faith group called: the Church of God, Family of Love and The Family.

Charles Milles Manson (born 1934-NOV-11) is a person with an unusual ability to dominate others. He assembled a destructive, doomsday cult around himself, which the media later called The Family. At one time, it numbered in excess of 100 individuals at the Spahn Ranch some 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles CA. Manson was referred to both as "God" and "Satan" by his followers. As the family's guru, he claimed to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

Manson was concerned about damage to the environment and pollution. He once commented: "Your water’s dying. Your life’s in that cup. Your trees are dying. Your wildlife’s locked up in zoos. You’re in the zoo, Man. How do you feel about it?"

The Branch Davidians is a sect that split away from the Seventh-Day Adventist church. Under their now deceased leader, David Koresh, it became a destructive, doomsday cult. Many of their members died during a standoff with federal authorities in Waco, TX. Fragments of the original group survive.

In 1999-AUG, an ex-FBI agent released to the press some long-suppressed information about the use of explosive tear-gas grenades at Waco. An investigation has been ordered. More revelations about what really happened at Waco are expected as time passes.

People's Temple:

This was a Christian destructive, doomsday cult founded and led by James Warren Jones (1931-1978). Jim Jones held degrees from Indiana University and Butler University. He was not a Fundamentalist pastor as many reports in the media and the anti-cult movement claim. He belonged to a mainline Christian denomination, having been ordained in the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ. (At the time of his ordination, the DoC allowed a local congregation to select and ordain a minister on their own. However, ordinations conducted without denominational endorsement were not considered valid within the rest of the church.)

The Peoples Temple was initially structured as an inter-racial mission for the sick, homeless and jobless. He assembled a large following of over 900 members in Indianapolis IN during the 1950's. "He preached a 'social gospel' of human freedom, equality, and love, which required helping the least and the lowliest of society's members. Later on, however, this gospel became explicitly socialistic, or communistic in Jones' own view, and the hypocrisy of white Christianity was ridiculed while 'apostolic socialism' was preached." 1 It was an interracial congregation -- almost unheard of in Indiana at the time. When a government investigation began into his cures for cancer, heart disease and arthritis, he decided to move the group to Ukiah in Northern California. He preached the imminent end of the world in a nuclear war; Ukiah was judged to be as safe as any when war broke out. They later moved to San Francisco and Los Angeles. After an expose during the mid 1970's in the magazine New West raised suspicions of illegal activities within the Temple, he moved some of the Temple membership to Jonestown, Guyana. The Temple had leased almost 4,000 acres of dense jungle from the government. They established an agricultural cooperative there, called the "Peoples Temple Agricultural Project." They raised animals for food, and assorted tropical fruits and vegetables for consumption and sale.