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Religions > Atheism |
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"Clayton McCloud of the Clan McCloud...And I Am Immoral!" |
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15 Oct 2003 02:31:35 AM |
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Population of Heaven |
I found this paragraph in a book of quotes and opinions about God and
religion I was reading last night, called "GOD:What the Critics Say".
"A British "research organization" (my quote marks) calculated that the
population of Heaven is 5 473 000 000. It reached the heavenly roll call
tally by adding up all the deaths since 40 000 BC - roughly 60 billion -
then figuring out the world's Christian population and doing an estimate
from 8 000 BC."
???
How they came to these figures wasn't mention. Unfortunately neither was
the name of the organization or more details, so using a few phrases from
the paragraph I did some searches, but I wasn't able to find out more about
this funny little religious pseudo scientific mind fart. I did however find
this...might be a new source of some humour.
http://internettrash.com/users/therail/Heavenop.html
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| User: "Fester" |
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| Title: Re: Population of Heaven |
17 Oct 2003 05:25:07 AM |
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"Clayton McCloud of the Clan McCloud...And I Am Immoral!"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:3f8cf748$0$1089$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
I found this paragraph in a book of quotes and opinions about God and
religion I was reading last night, called "GOD:What the Critics Say".
"A British "research organization" (my quote marks) calculated that the
population of Heaven is 5 473 000 000. It reached the heavenly roll call
tally by adding up all the deaths since 40 000 BC - roughly 60 billion -
then figuring out the world's Christian population and doing an estimate
from 8 000 BC."
???
How they came to these figures wasn't mention. Unfortunately neither was
the name of the organization or more details, so using a few phrases from
the paragraph I did some searches, but I wasn't able to find out more
about
this funny little religious pseudo scientific mind fart. I did however
find
this...might be a new source of some humour.
http://internettrash.com/users/therail/Heavenop.html
That's ridiculous. Don't those people know that the only people who go to
heaven are those of us who don't believe it exists?
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| User: "MarcRW" |
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| Title: Re: Population of Heaven |
15 Oct 2003 08:09:19 AM |
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"Clayton McCloud of the Clan McCloud...And I Am Immoral!"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:3f8cf748$0$1089$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
I found this paragraph in a book of quotes and opinions about God and
religion I was reading last night, called "GOD:What the Critics Say".
"A British "research organization" (my quote marks) calculated that the
population of Heaven is 5 473 000 000. It reached the heavenly roll call
tally by adding up all the deaths since 40 000 BC - roughly 60 billion -
then figuring out the world's Christian population and doing an estimate
from 8 000 BC."
Weren't any Christians in 8000 BCE. They must have invented a new
classification: Protochristians, those who would have been Christians if
they'd had a chance.
Marc
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which
is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell
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