Seraphita wrote: (snip) > Isn't the vulgar notion of Christianity held by most believers radically > dualist? (Which > isn't surprising as western Christianity flows from Augustine.) Your > standard Christian > believes God is good and Satan is evil and History will end with a stand-up > fight > between the angels of light and the demons with the good angels destined to > prevail.
Christianity is dualistic, yes, but what you describe above really isn't what the "standard Christian" believes (at least not in the U.S.). It's various fundamentalist-type denominations and sects that are preoccupied with the End Times and Armageddon and the Rapture and so on. Standard or "mainline" Christians don't necessarily disbelieve in the prophecies of Revelation, but they don't tend to take them literally, and they don't focus on them.
