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...daughter Shannon, who fell into a diabetic coma after four days of dehydration and nausea, dying on June 21, 1995. The Nixons, members of a tiny sect called the Faith Tabernacle Congregation, had refused to call a doctor on both occasions, convinced that all disease comes from the devil and that only God can cure illness. Charles Nixon, the dead children's grandfather and the pastor of Altoona's 140-member Faith Tabernacle congregation, clarified the sect's tenet: "We do not believe in 'faith healing.' We believe in 'divine healing' through Jesus Christ...
...listen to a tape recording of the sermon instead. When her parents returned from church, Shannon hugged her father and said, "I feel I have my victory!" But that was premature. By the next day she was vomiting. When a brother asked about her condition, Shannon answered weakly, "The devil is fighting me hard." In the next 24 hours she started slipping in and out of consciousness, and her family increased the intensity of its prayers. On the evening of June 21, she fell into a coma and died, three days short of her 17th birthday. At her parents' trial...
...child in a few months. None of her children has been delivered with medical assistance. Haberstroh is under no illusions that even a harsh penalty will change the Nixons' beliefs. A police detective who interviewed the Nixons reported that the family saw the trial as "an instrument of the devil testing their faith." But Haberstroh is determined to follow through, if only for the sake of the surviving Nixon children. "Diabetes is often an inherited illness," says he. "If one child had it, others may well have...
Stark turned and started toward the fence. As the ball sailed high over her right shoulder, Stark lunged up and out to make an impressive leaping grab and rob the Blue Devil hitter of a certain extra-base...
...Paul Gray. "That is fair enough reason to write a book, but merely attributing the author?s opinions to Jesus himself seems like dirty pool. Mailer?s Jesus remembers Satan?s words during the temptation: ?Your Father is but one god among many.? That is of course what the Devil would say, but Mailer?s Jesus comes to agree that his father is not omnipotent. Mailer?s Jesus now views his death on the cross as a ?debacle and disaster? that Christianity was invented to disguise. In a better book, this conclusion might seem unbearably wrenching and provocative; here...