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...church-state wall fear that politicians, bent on compromise more than conversion, would try to invent some inoffensive brand of faith -- the creche encircled by reindeer hauling Santa's sleigh. "What you are tending to see is a new secular state religion," says Lee Boothby, a Seventh-day Adventist who is general counsel with Americans United for Separation of Church and State. "It's not really religion...
...proclaimed that the end of the world was nigh. A 12th century Cistercian abbot, Joachim of Flora, was quite precise: the Age of the Spirit, which he saw as the culmination of human history, would begin between A.D. 1200 and 1260. William Miller, the Baptist layman who founded the Adventist movement in America, was sure that the Second Coming would take place on March 21, 1843, and then, after recalculating, on Oct. 22, 1844. (Miller had the grace to confess his errors when the deadlines passed; the movement survived...
...even those less than willing. Two years ago, a Karen brigade sneaked into a refugee camp in Thailand at night, rounded up all the males ages 14 to 40 and marched them back to camp. The remaining villagers grew hysterical, and leaders of a small group of Seventh Day Adventist and Baptist missionaries, who supply refugees with school books, Bibles and food, protested to General Bo Mya, president of the Karens. The next day the conscripts were returned, and the missionaries received a note of apology from the brigade commander...
...singers' soul-saving urgency flows from the Adventist teaching that the Second Coming could occur virtually any day now. Tenor Mark Kibble, who devised the distinct six-part sound, scans the drug scene and other manifest modern evils and concludes, "We are truly living in the last days before Christ comes. Because of that, we are more intense in showing people they need not be subject to this world...
According to her hospital roommate, Teresa is a tall, thin, outgoing blond and a heavy smoker who worried about her daughter. The newborn was transferred to the Loma Linda medical center, a Seventh-day Adventist institution with an excellent reputation in pediatric cardiology. Doctors there explained to Teresa that the baby would probably die within a few days and that she could either leave her at the hospital or take her home. Raedel tearfully told the Los Angeles Times that after a sleepless vigil, "watching her to make sure she was breathing," they took the child home...