Demographics

                It usually runs about 50%.....and it has for a couple of years now....but for the past twenty four hours it has been 75%. I'm referring to pageviews to this website from Europe compared to the United States. I don't display a 'counter'....(actually I disabled it)....because 'bots' totally distort the number of 'hits' that it would give. I just checked....and that number right now would be....174,307. Automated 'bots' have been a problem for a few years now. I know that there are ways to get around this....but I do not have the time or the interest to find out what those ways are. The real figure is is somewhere over 100,000 but I would be guessing to try to pinpoint it....and probably guessing wrong. There is a counter on pageviews to my Profile that is unaffected by bots.
             So today it has been multiple visits from Russia in the north to Italy in the south. A few years ago....five or six maybe....there were 3.77K visits from Australia....and then they stopped altogether....zero....as it appears that my website had been flagged and banned in Australia. Asia and Africa and South America have been moderate.
             This is not the first time that I've posted on demographics....but considering that all the advertising that I do....(the bumper sticker up and down the East Coast....and the thousands of promotional items)....it should seem odd that Europe has equal or more visitors than my own giant country....but then again it doesn't seem odd....because of these reasons....

Americans....in general....do not want to hear anything about judgment coming to us. Even evangelicals do not want to hear this. We want to hear about judgment on others....liberals and progressives for instance. We want only to hear how bad Joe Biden is....and how we are going to take back the Congress in 2024....and get back to the way things used to be....seemingly totally unaware that....'the way things used to be'....that we want to go back to....is the same time period that Billy Graham and others were telling us that God's judgment was coming!

Evangelicals also do not take kindly my thoughts on evangelicalism today....or mega-churches.....or preaching....or even my harping on how...."Unless one is born again..." That phrase is really holding us back. "Come join our church and find your own ministry"....is much more the evangel of the day. We have moved from being....pilgrims....to being suburban patriots....from parents who would travel in danger across a great ocean in order to teach our own children.....to parents who demand that our babysitters.....schools and libraries and television....babysit the way we want them to babysit....and that Sunday Schools and youth groups continue to relieve us of our time-consuming duties.

It is almost an everyday news story in America....and it is today's....one of them anyway. A man shoots a woman on a street in Florida....the television news arrives....the suspect returns and kills one of the news people....and wounds another....then he goes into a nearby home....and shoots and kills a....9 year old girl....and critically wounds her mother. This horror does not affect us anymore. It certainly does not affect our pulpits. Must this not be at least equal to the violence of Noah's day? Should not our prayer be....'Lord....open our eyes to what we have become....show us how we trust in nothing but broken cisterns....awaken your shepherds.....rouse them from a mortal slumber....have mercy upon us.....not that we might return to where were....but that we might look around and say.....Maranatha....Lord Jesus.....Come!"