Word: elohim
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...avengers? For that, Jones reaches to Andreas Strassmeir, 36, the ultra-right offspring of a politically prominent German family. In 1988 he came to the U.S. to indulge his fascination with the Civil War, racial politics and guns. In 1991 Strassmeir began to live on and off in Elohim City, a far-right religious community in eastern Oklahoma, where patriarch Robert G. Millar preaches his own variation of white-separatist ideology (northern Europeans are the real chosen people, with a "divine right to authority," and so on). Millar acted as Snell's "spiritual adviser" on death row. After Snell...
Among other things, the church deleted the pledge of wifely obedience demanded of women, who typically undergo endowment prior to temple marriage. Now women merely join the men in pledging obedience to God. Another key change occurs in a dramatic representation showing a polytheistic Elohim dispatching Jehovah and Michael to create the world. The scene in which Satan pays a Protestant preacher to lure Mormons from their faith is out, perhaps because it offended converts from Protestantism. (The Latter-Day Saints still hold theirs to be the only authentic form of Christianity...