Word: godly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news story, it lacked for little. A pipe bomb had gone off; authorities needed to send a robot in to check Ashbrook?s body for booby traps. Shiny, happy, God-fearing kids mowed down when God was supposed to be caring for them. A throwback to Cassie Bernall at Columbine, and the shredded prayer circle in Paducah, Ky., last year. CNN followed step by step the rampage, flight and capture of Buford Furrow at the L.A. Jewish Community Center in August. Just one had died. Columbine? We?ve only just now stopped hearing about Columbine. Yet the shooting barely...
...news nets. Sorry, Rod Dreher ?- no matter how the "media elite" may wrinkle its nose at the evangelicals, at the Disney-boycotting gays-are-sinners Baptists, we?re not in the habit of ignoring them. Cassie Bernall, shot in the head in the Columbine library because she copped to God, got a truckload of ink. No, this being the entertainment business, it?s more likely a matter of timing. And the emotional difference between two tragedies ?- another teen massacre, which sickens, and another devastating hurricane, which, on a deep level, is undeniably exhilarating...
...Talking about theology was exciting," he says, "but the assumption that these commandments might come from God was difficult...
...insulting assumption--that the poor, disabled, or unemployed are spiritually impoverished as well, and that the best way to remedy social ills is to expose them as a captive audience to what Bush calls "the transforming power of faith." Higher on the social scale does not mean closer to God, and the people do not become more sinful because they are unemployed...
...police vernacular, Gidone Busch was an "EDP"--an emotionally disturbed person. His medical records show that he believed he was directed by God to save drug addicts and exotic dancers, that his friends were prophets and that he was the messiah. When the police were called in last week, he was menacing children in a predominantly Hasidic Jewish section of Brooklyn, and he attacked the cops with a claw hammer. The police shot him to death with 12 bullets. Should they have just maimed Busch to subdue him? New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said, "When [police] make a decision...