{"id":2282,"date":"2010-06-23T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2010\/06\/four-in-10-americans-see-jesus.php"},"modified":"2010-06-23T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T17:48:06","slug":"four-in-10-americans-see-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2010\/06\/four-in-10-americans-see-jesus","title":{"rendered":"Four in 10 Americans See Jesus’ Return by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"

(RNS) Four in 10 Americans believe Jesus Christ will return to earth by 2050, while a slightly larger portion (46 percent) don’t believe they’ll see a Second Coming by mid-century, according to a new survey.
\nAs part of Smithsonian Magazine’s 40th anniversary issue, 1,546 adults were asked to guess the forecast of war, energy, science and religion in the next 40 years for a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for People & the Press.
\nEvangelicals were most likely (58 percent) to predict a Second Coming, followed by 32 percent of Catholics, and 27 percent of mainline Protestants.
\nFifty-two percent of people living in the South, and 59 percent of people without a college degree, expected a Christ comeback more readily than their counterparts, according to the survey.
\nThe survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
\n
\n— Ankita Rao
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