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Doug Henwood:
>Nine in 10 Believe in Heaven;
>A Quarter Say for Christians Only
>
>Vast majorities of Americans believe in heaven and think they're headed
>there. But elbow room won't be a problem: About eight in 10 believers
>envision heaven as a place where people exist only spiritually, not
physically.
OK, so why does the Raptursaurus Right think they're going to waft skyward, bare nekkid, to sit by the right hand of God?
I mean, I've been thinking about that on and off for about three months, jiss wonderin' why a group of people who seem to hate the human body think heaven is about losing your clothes! I started a post about it, hoping Jeff Fisher and other theologically minded might instruct me.
------------------------------------------------ As Time LaHaye once explained the matter to captive congregation of which I was part: The sexual urge will be extinguished in the followers of Christ that are whisked away after the Rapture, and the elect will revert to an Edenic state of blissful, sexless nudity. This interpretation is based upon the Gospel passage, I believe in Matthew, where Jesus observes that in the Kingdom of Heaven "they are not given are not given in marriage." Of course, LaHaye also disclosed, among other interesting matters, that in heaven believers would zip around the universe "at the speed of thought." They people really are nuts.