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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jpgillam" <jpgillam@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@> wrote: > > > > This is us? > > "Millennial religious and communal movements typically anticipate the > > imminent and literal end of what they view as a profoundly wicked, corrupt > > existing world order and its replacement by a glorious "new heaven and new > > earth," in which "the first shall be last and the last first, " Describing > > millennial groups this way implies that they must be inherently > > "revolutionary" in their underlying goals and their impact upon the larger > > social order that they criticize so harshly" > > I say no, TMers and others who believe that a spiritual awakening is taking > place are not millennialists. We may be cousins in the sense that the > material world, of which millennialism partakes, is a cousin to the > transcendent, but we're not the same. What do you think? >
