[lbo-talk] religion in the US

[WD]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:46 AM, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> According to that Pew Survey Doug posted, Mormons are
> actually a little nuttier:
>
> "Only among Mormons (57%) and Jehovah's Witnesses
> (80%) do majorities say that their own religion is the
> one true faith leading to eternal life.

First, believing in eternal life is nutty to begin with; so what makes
it so much nuttier to believe that your revealed religion is the only
path to it?

Second, it's more complicated than Mormons thinking everyone else is
going to hell -- that's why they practice posthumous baptism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_for_the_dead .  They talk about
it in the Frontline episode I posted.  I'm not sure about JWs.

-WD