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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Maryknoll called - please keep your prayers going
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 10:18:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 10:18:46 1985
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> In article <1297@hammer.UUCP> seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
> >
> >Why does God allow natural disasters?  No, I don't have
> >the answer, but there is one possibility I'd like to point out.
> >Look in Revelations.  Just before the second coming there
> >is supposed to be a great increase in earthquakes and such,
> >right?  Now, look at the number of earthquakes per year for
> >that last few decades.  Every decade the number doubles!
> >Then consider that Israel was restored as a nation in 1948,
> >and that the second coming is supposed to be within one
> >generation (~40 years) of that event.
> >
> >hmmmmm!
> >
> >Snoopy
> >tektronix!mako!seifert
> 
>    I guess it just depends on whether or not you take Revelations
> literally... 
> 
>      elizabeth g. purtell
> 
>       (Lady Godiva)

What is this "Revelations", anyhow?
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