"Don't worry about politics," they say, "the whole world is going down-hill and Jesus is coming back soon." I grew up in a dispensational, premillenial, pretribulation-rapture church. Those arcane terms just mean (for our purposes here) that my church teaches this world is going down hill, and will continue until Jesus returns and makes everything new. I am not writing this to start a debate on eschatology (the study of end times) or to even talk about which view I take. Inst