[lbo-talk] all aboard for heaven

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Harold Bloom recently repeated what he thinks this belief in
heaven amounts to (roughly, Gnosticism) for contemporary
Americans. --CGE]

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,,1669276,00.html

'...In 2005, what is self-reliance? I can recognise three
prime stigmata of the American religion: spiritual freedom is
solitude, while the soul's encounter with the divine (Jesus,
the Paraclete, the Father) is direct and personal, and, most
crucially, what is best and oldest in the American religionist
goes back to a time-before-time, and so is part or particle of
God..." 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:06:43 -0500
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>  
>Subject: [lbo-talk] all aboard for heaven  
>To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>
>ABC NEWS POLL: HEAVEN - 10/9/05
>EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 6 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005
>
>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...