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- From: spg@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Stephen P. Guthrie)
- Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.165344.8202@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Jul25.132357.6141@pdnfido.fidonet.org>> <UeQsWIW00VpOR531sx@andrew.cmu.edu> <john.712510876@csrnxt1.ae.utexas.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:53:44 GMT
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- In article <john.712510876@csrnxt1.ae.utexas.edu> john@csrnxt1.ae.utexas.edu (John R. Schutz) writes:
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- >>"According to your religion, only a Jehovah's witness can be saved"
- >>"Yes, that is our teaching".
- >>"And according to the Bible, only 144,000 people are to be saved"
- >>"Yes, this is also according to our teachings".
- >>"But, there are 2,000,000 Jehovah's witnesses."
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- >If I'm not mistaken, and I probably am (it's been a loooong time since
- >I was up on my Jehovah's Witness stuff), they believe that heaven is
- >already full, and that Witnesses that die are kind of held in a
- >Limboish (or Limbaughish...pretty much the same thing <duck>) state
- >until the end of the world, at which time the Witnesses'll take over
- >and rule...or something like that...I'm probably way off base here...
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- Well, according to the World Weekly News, Heaven is already full, and the
- Pope knows it. But the Vatican is covering up, so that the believers won't
- give up their faith now that they can't get their rewards in the next life.
- According to the report the last spot in heaven was filled in 1989.
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