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...Lanka is a Bandaranaike family preserve." The President is emphatic she never said this. You wrote that "Sinhalese Buddhist mobs have burned or vandalized more than 100 Christian churches." This is the work of a small extremist group whose members are now in custody. They attacked mostly evangelist prayer houses, not churches. Eric Fernando Director General Policy Research and Information Unit, President's Office Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...Carlin [March 29]. The man continues to evolve as he delights and offends everyone, everywhere, equally, reminding us all to lighten up. I consider myself a good, spiritual person, but I could no longer stomach the hypocrisy I found in many organized church services. If Carlin ever became an evangelist, I would definitely join his flock. MARY HARRINGTON Fayetteville...
...Magi are not the familiar three kings of Christmas legend (later piety gave them names, ages, races and crowns), but rather an unspecified number of astrologers, perhaps from Babylon. Even in that guise, some critics suggest, their existence is questionable, possibly merely a preaching device used by the evangelist to suggest the import and universality of the astonishing event: God become man. --TIME...
...Reading the script actually made me feel better in some ways. It is, quite simply, idiotic. Everyone is a caricature, manufactured and inauthentic. My father is depicted as some demented evangelist, going on about Armageddon every chance he gets. My mother is cast as a female Attila the Hun, and I and my siblings are unrecognizable to me. There are absurdities, like depictions of Mike Deaver and political aides camping out at our house during my father?s early political career - in every scene, there they are, hanging around the house day and night. I suppose this is meant...
DIED. GARNER TED ARMSTRONG, 73, silver-haired TV evangelist; of complications from pneumonia; in Tyler, Texas. The son of radio evangelist Herbert Armstrong, whose Worldwide Church of God earned more than $70 million a year by the late 1970s with its predictions of an imminent apocalypse, he became the star of the church's widely distributed radio and TV show The World Tomorrow. Allegations of his sexual misconduct later led his father to excommunicate him from the church. Yet he stayed on the air, most recently as founder of the Intercontinental Church...