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- From: emcmanus@gr.osf.org (Eamonn McManus)
- Subject: Re: Religion in UK and US
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation Research Institute, Grenoble
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:30:43 GMT
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- 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 God just sit around there
- with the angels laughing at our brief and miserable existences?
-
- Actually, I am quite ignorant of religious beliefs outside the
- mainstream Catholicism in which I was brought up. Would religious
- Jews, for instance, believe in Heaven but not life after death?
-
- ,
- Eamonn
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