From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 05:19:12 MST
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:48:03PM -0800, spike66 wrote:
>
> The meme didn't sell in England, didn't sell in
> France, didn't sell in Spain, Italy or Germany.
> But in one of history's many curiously unexplainable
> happenstances, it caught on like wildfire in...
> Sweden. (Why Sweden, Anders?)
Amusing story. There were a lot of religious revivals going on in the
1800's in Sweden. The times were hard (when the city of Sundsvall was
burnt to the ground in 1888 Sweden got some foreign aid from Uraguay to
help rebuild it) and many people joined various Christian movements as a
response. Konventikelplakatet (yes, the word is funny even in Swedish),
a law banning unauthorized religious meetings, had been abolished in
1858 and there was a kind of faith vacuum which allowed many religious
movements to grow very strong and influential in the late 1800's.
> She prayed fervently, then advised them to
> move south.
>
> The exploding Swedish Seventh Day Adventist movement
> imploded. It has never recovered to this day.
True. Today it has only about 2,800 members in Sweden.
> I don't expect the SDA meme to sell in LEO or on
> Mars either.
On the other hand, imagine if Raelianism becomes fashionable out
there... <shudder>
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