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In reply to the discussion: Could "The Anti-Christ" possibly be all those sociopaths in high positions in corporations & gov't? [View all]Cal33
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thought that message was pretty clear. However, there are large numbers
of people who interpret the bible in their own way, and each one claims
that his own interpretation is the only correct one.
Some years ago I had a neighbor who asked me one day if I would be
interested in visiting her church. I did go. It was a medium-sized, spanking
new church and quite beautiful. It was a fundamentalist church, and quite
new, Later I asked her how many members there were. She said, 150.
I replied I meant how many there were of them in the whole country. She
said, "This is it." The church had been founded 10 years previously. Oddly
enough, this church was founded by two men, and, of course, their
interpretation of the bible was the only correct one.
Not long after I happened to read in a magazine that there were some 20,000
such sects (mostly of the fundamentalist type) in the US alone -- each one
claiming to have the only correct interpretation of the bible. Can you imagine
these people coming together and having a debate?
I wouldn't be surprised if there are more such sects in the US alone than in the
rest of the world put together.