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- From: mls@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (mike.siemon)
- Subject: Re: Religion in UK and US
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:46:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.144602.27081@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Summary: the KofE is amongst you
- References: <2b0a5058@ThreeL.co.uk> <cieux@kaa.gr.osf.org>
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- In article <cieux@kaa.gr.osf.org>, emcmanus@gr.osf.org (Eamonn McManus) writes:
- > jf@threel.co.uk (John Fisher) writes:
- > > Britain US
- > >%age who believe in:
- > ...
- > >Life after death 55 78
- > >Heaven 54 86
-
- > Perhaps I'm just out of touch with the Religion thing, but it seems
- > rather odd to me that more US people believe in Heaven than in life
- > after death. What do the (at least) 8% of people who believe in one
- > but not the other think Heaven is for? Does
-
- It sort of depends on what is meant by the terms. I'd probably answer
- in the negative to both, on the basis of second-guessing what the poll
- is presuming to ask. However, more formally as a Christian, I'd answer
- that I do not believe in life after death (though I do not emphatically
- deny the possibility, as the Church rather strongly asserts it -- and
- Paul, whose opinion carries some weight with me, seems to think that
- Christ's resurrection is a guarantee of our own), but I *do* believe
- in "Heaven" -- I think that as God is "outside" of time, so is our life
- in the Kingdom of Heaven, our participation in the Banquet is at hand
- NOW to all who place their trust in God's love.
- --
- Michael L. Siemon "Oh, stand, stand at the window,
- As the tears scald and start;
- mls@usl.com You shall love your crooked neighbor
- standard disclaimer With your crooked heart."
-