From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 22:15:19 BST
Dear Mark H.,
You wrote 21 May 2004 20:33:31 -0700:
'Go to a good-sized mall in any American city, and stop 100 people at
random. Ask them if they believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God, put
on earth by God to be crucified for their sins, so that they may have a
clean slate, live a good Christian life, then be rewarded with eternal bliss
in heaven. I bet that AT LEAST 59 of them will say yes. If they can believe
this, why not all of Revelations?
I'm with David. What's the problem?'
Can you please do that for me? Living in the Netherlands I have to make do
with Gallup & co.
The problem is, that IF 59% or 123 million adult Americans believe
Revelations to be literally true, they MAY believe (according to the
newspaper article that mentioned this 59% statistic) that destabilizing the
Middle East will speed up their Ascension and support a foreign policy that
isn't exactly in the global public interest.
According to a Gallup poll in 1998 38% believed the Bible to be literally
true. In 1999 this was 33%. (According to the American section of
http://religionstatistics.bravehost.com/statofrel1.htm.) That's high enough
to make me nervous about irrational influences in American foreign policy.
(Cf. Spain 1998 12,1%. I have no comparable statistic for the Netherlands.)
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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