Think heaven is members-only?

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In June, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a
controversial survey in which 70 percent of Americans said that they
believed religions other than theirs could lead to eternal life.
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Earl Wilson/The New York Times

This threw evangelicals into a tizzy. After all, the Bible makes it
clear that heaven is a velvet-roped V.I.P. area reserved for
Christians. Jesus said so: “I am the way, the truth and the life: no
man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” But the survey suggested that
Americans just weren’t buying that.

The evangelicals complained that people must not have understood the
question. The respondents couldn’t actually believe what they were
saying, could they?

So in August, Pew asked the question again. (They released the results
last week.) Sixty-five percent of respondents said — again — that
other religions could lead to eternal life. But this time, to clear up
any confusion, Pew asked them to specify which religions. The
respondents essentially said all of them.

And they didn’t stop there. Nearly half also thought that atheists
could go to heaven — dragged there kicking and screaming, no doubt —
and most thought that people with no religious faith also could go.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/opinion/27blow.html?_r=2

moar there

[kafir]

The last paragraph demonstrates that the writer 9was it the pollster)
doesn't know what an atheist is.

[Bob & Holly Wilson]

kafir <kafi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > And they didn't stop there. Nearly half also thought that atheists
> > could go to heaven — dragged there kicking and screaming, no doubt —
> > and most thought that people with no religious faith also could go.
> >

. . .

>
> The last paragraph demonstrates that the writer 9was it the pollster)
> doesn't know what an atheist is.

Isn't that an atheists "Hell," an after life spent in heaven?

Bob Wilson