[TML] China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation - Newsweek

[Garry Ward]

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Subject: Re: [TML] China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation - Newsweek


> 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.
>
The unfortunate fact is that, on the average, people in general, are, at 
best, loosely connected on any subject.

Garry
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