Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Sun, 25 May 2025 02:48:02 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
<usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

In article <vcr33klj2s81v1fjjs210nvsgsiaiiftur@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

... after the New Jerusalem appears, the people left alive will live
forever and breed copiously, filling the earth forever and ever.

>
Though that's an interesting megastructure, according to Revelation,
a cube approximately the size of Alaska on each side.
>
One wonders about gravitational effects ...

This is after the creation of the New Heaven and New Earth. Who can
say what their physics may look like?

A more recent book (it has a reference that only makes sense if it was
written in the late 1930s) asserts that, when the New Jerusalem
appears, this means that Heaven and (the New) Earth are /joined/. This
was not by a premillenialist. I think he was an amillenialist (like
Augustine, apparently) but he could be a postmillenialst. He believed
every true Christian that ever has or ever will exist is currently in
Heaven with Jesus ruling the World right now. He interprets all the
nastiness as ongoing from the Resurrection, and encompassing /all/ of
science, technology, anything /not/ in (his) Chrstian tradition. So I
can see because cataract surgery is a part of God's wrathful
punishment of the world. According to him, anyway.

As I said, /lots/ of really weird ideas.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"