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The Holy Year 2000 is approaching rather quickly. For Christians all over the world this is a very significant time. It is a time for Christians to celebrate their relationship with God, but it seems that over the last millennium many Christians have turned away ....

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.... will bring about the ending of the world. There was a time when Christians naturally turned to God when they had problems. Today that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Traditions have drastically changed. It almost seems as if religion is a dying tradition all together. “The signs of death are seen in the declining membership of the mainline Protestant traditions and in both the declining attendance and declining authority now seen in the Catholic and Orthodox churches” (Rollins). People are just not going to church anymore. There are probably various reasons for this new trend, but it is very sad and discouraging. People naturally ....