His view on the world is saddened because there has been a great decline in morality in the world as well as in our country and a lot of people and churches have come under heavy criticism and persecution. I think a lot of it comes from ignorance and a lot of it comes from fear. When you think about it the two go together. .
What people are ignorant about they are usually afraid of. This is also presented in different religions when people choose what church they feel best in and comfortable with the beliefs they want to follow. There are so many angles to look at, from the strong Baptist influence that controls and governs so many people in the Bible Belt of the South, to the radical practices of what some call Pentecostal or holy rollers. I guess he has seen it all. The one thing people need to realize is you can't just stereotype or group people into a one lump category. There are so many factions now and so many differences of opinion on things that it is getting very difficult for people to get along on a religious ideology. The distinctive quality of evangelical popular religion is its openness to believing that the great, complex questions of life can be answered clearly and directly. "From the everyday believers have testimonies and stories of "healed bodies and minds, ships coming in, prospering businesses, saved marriages--in short, a life where the shadows flee away," as defined by Leonard I. Sweet"(Jolstard, pg. 51). You take for instances the Pentecostal religion; there are so many different beliefs. The difference between what people call the Trinity and the One God or Jesus, only as some call it is a wide gap. They all believe in water baptism and the in filling of the Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Divine healing is also very strongly practiced. Yet there are what the Pentecost people call fanatics, when it comes to snake handling, forbidding people to go to doctors and the abstaining form eating certain meats.