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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@leeloo AIUI the Jehovah's Witnesses used to believe only 660,000 folks would go to heaven, and as there were 3 million of them this led to no little paranoia and side-eye action. As there are >16 million Jews, I'd say heaven's full, no Christians need apply to the Rapture.

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JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@cstross @leeloo @PilotMoonDog

Not quite. It was 144,000.

And Revelation 7 and 14, the chapters on which this is based, if taken literally (always a risky thing to do with the Book of Revelation) says that these 144,000 are Jews, 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes, virgins, male, and unblemished.

Females, male non-virgins, anyone who isn't Jewish, anyone over tribal quota, and anyone with wrinkles/spots, won't be amongst the number.

#Christianity #SecondComing #USPolitics #Millenarianism

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Shaun Murrant (☕🧉🍻🏳️‍🌈)
@PilotMoonDog@social.linux.pizza replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@cstross @leeloo

Do they not believe that anymore then? One of my usual replies to witness missionaries is I don't particularly fancy being relegated to second class heaven.

As an Empire Games related side note, I call them J. Edgar Hoover's Witnesses and did so before you wrote the book.

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