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I often think we haven’t done a very good job in setting forth the doctrine of Eternal Life. For most people the concept seems a rather flat one, namely, that we shall live for ever and ever and ever…. And frankly for many such a concept seems rather unappealing even if the place of it is heaven. Heaven too is often poorly understood. It is reduced to a rather egocentric notion of a place where I will be happy. I’ll have a mansion, I’ll see my mother again, I won’t suffer…. But most moderns in their description never get around...

An earlier post on Occupy Wall Street (See "Occupy America's Wallet," 10/13/11) attempted to describe what the movement is by identifying its causes. This post seeks to discern where OSW comes from by identifying its roots. By doing so, it aims to distinguish OSW from other movements seeking social justice, fairness and other moral themes that resonate broadly among the public, especially religious believers. The key distinction is to be found in the notion of hope that animates protestors, sympathizers, religious believers or others. In what does OWS hope? Of what does its better world consist? How does that compare...