Theland, you seem confident to predict that the world will go downhill, based on your observation of human behaviour. Do you credit your predictions to your observations or to what was written thousands of years ago? I suspect that thousands of years ago the prospects for humans' future was very pessimistic; I mean, they had all sorts of bad things going on, no democracy, no human rights, no animal rights..... No wonder that they had pessimistic views of the future, and then, as now, there's lots of people who prefer to look on the dark side and seek simplistic solutions such as taking the knee before a brutal male deity. If you give in to that sort of mentality you never do anything positive to make the world a better place. I think you'd be disappointed if the bible predictions didn't come true. Am I being too negative about your attitude? Do you live in hope at all?