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Article: Reincarnation: A Critical Examination.
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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Religious insanity is very common in the United States.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, as quoted by Paul Edwards
Because reincarnation is a fundamental doctrine of Hindu religions and most forms of Buddhism, there are probably more people around the world who believe it than those who prefer the Judaic-Christian-Muslim view that our lives begin at birth and will continue after death in heaven or hell. In recent decades New Age infatuations with Eastern faiths have impelled vast numbers of Americans to see in reincarnation the satisfaction of their hunger. for immortality. A 1991 Gallup poll found that 1 in 5 Americans are reincarnationists. More surprising, 14% of ...