From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 22:17:21 BST
Dear all (especially Americans),
Back from holiday (and catching up with what you wrote in my absence) I was
quite shocked to read in my newspaper (de Volkskrant) today that 59% of the
Americans (cf. 2,5% of the Dutch) believe that the bible book of Revelations
is literally true (i.e. reliably predicts the -literal- 'being taken up into
Heaven' of faithful Christians preceded and followed by all kinds of
disasters associated with Israel, 'Babylon', a 'resurrected Roman empire'
etc.)... The article didn't state a source for this statistic. Is it true in
your experience?
That it is 'dangerous to let one's life be motivated by non-rational belief
systems' (ascribed 3 May 2004 20:46:49 -0700 by Mark H. to Noam Chomsky)
then gets a whole new meaning for me when it is endorsed by Americans
(supposedly from the other 41%)... If such ideas (implying the welcoming of
those disasters) have considerable influence on the foreign policy of the
USA (as the article stated), to what extent can it be a force for Good in
the world then???
Needless to say that I have something quite different in mind when I am
writing about religion in general and Christianity in particular (and so did
Sam, I'm sure).
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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