[TML] China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation - Newsweek

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 25 Aug 2007 at 6:34, Jerry W Barrington wrote:

> On 8/23/07 4:36 PM, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> 
> > Somehow, this has me thinking of a really *weird* job for PCs on a
> > world with a Religious government type...
> > 
> > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20227400/site/newsweek/
> 
> "According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 20 percent of all U.S. adults believe in
> reincarnation. Recent surveys by the Barna Group, a Christian research
> nonprofit, have found that a quarter of U.S. Christians, including 10
> percent of all born-again Christians, embrace it as their favored
> end-of-life view."
> 
> Wait...  Doesn't belief in reincarnation directly contradiction claiming to
> be Christian?!?

Many Christians believe that when you go to heaven you become an 
angel. In spite of the Bible *clearly* stating that angels were a 
separate creation (and one that God wasn't satisfied with).

What people believe and what the official tenets of their faith are 
are at best loosely connected.

--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com