>>>>Rather amazing how that works. Hilmar's comments confirmed to me that even thou he lives in a area that's strongly Christian in nature, folks there are not so worried about their "afterlife".
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>>>Life is worry enough :).
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>>But that's the point of being a Christian... not to worry about the after-life.
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>Right. But how many people have turned it around to 'can't wait to get there' is dictinctly odd. It's like they'd do suicide but God doesn't permit that so they want Him to bring the rapture to do the equivalent for them.
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>Strange.

There are 2 unstated benefits....

1) that pesky task of political diplomacy goes away
2) you get to run up your credit card bills with no worries