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...creationist group Answers In Genesis, whose bold statement, “If you believe in evolution, you’d have to believe women came from ape-women,” clearly puts an end to evolutionary theory. There’s also José Luis de Jess Miranda, the self-proclaimed second coming of Christ, who says “two angels” spoke to him. Maher’s response, “You mean two guys named Angel,” elicits from Miranda the shell-shocked expression that becomes the film?...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Religulous' | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Perret’s statement simply is not true. Mexico never formally declared war against the U.S., according to Jess Velasco-Márquez, a specialist on the war. And it did not proclaim its intention to “repel” American aggression until July 1846, nearly two months after Polk signed the U.S. declaration...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Perret’s Fictions | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...hundreds of people dancing to salsa music, waving flags, and cheering loudly by the “Torch of Friendship” in downtown Miami. Then I noticed that almost all wore pins and T-shirts bearing the image of, not Dwayne Wade, but José Luis de Jess Miranda, a man who claims he is—no joke—Jesus Christ. This was not the first time I had come across the name. A former co-worker had mentioned him as the leader of “Creciendo en Gracia”—Growing...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, | Title: Religion on the Street | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...Library. He earned his law degree (remarkably) while completely blind, but has been prohibited from practicing ever since the regime learned of his oppositionist activities. On March 4, 2002, he organized a peaceful protest outside the Ciego de Avila city hospital to express solidarity with an independent journalist, Jess Alvarez Castillo, who had been brutally beaten by Cuban State Security. Along with his fellow demonstrators, he too was soon attacked by State Security and clubbed in the head so violently that it took several stitches to close the wound. He was subsequently imprisoned in Pedernales, Holguín, where...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: The Conscience of Cuba | 10/8/2003 | See Source »

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