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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: The great Hell survey (Results)
Message-ID: <1169@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 15:03:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  1 15:03:22 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 07:35:58 EDT
Reply-To: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
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Well, here it is.  The results of the ``is Hell a place where sinners go or
is Hell a state of alienation from God'' survey.  27 people replied.  3
of them did not believe that it was either of these things -- I got one
``Hell is a state of alineation from God, not a place, where sinners go
when they die''.  I don't understand this.

As for the rest:  it is a tie, folks.  Exactly 12 people think that it
is a state, and 12 think that it is a place.  I don't know what that means.
It does correspond to the ratios I found when I went around looking for
Christians at churches to ask this question to.  I wonder -- are the 
Christians who reply to surveys in net.religion unrepresentative, or
were the churches I went to in Toronto?  I am tempted to ask this same
question on COMPUSERVE.  Of course, that would mean getting a COMPUSERVE
account.

But I ramble.  Thanks for listening.  I don't know what the results mean,
but here they are.
-- 
``Never string ethernet in the presence of a kitten.''
Laura Creighton		
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