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...moves easily in and out of minds that to a lesser writer would be solid and opaque, evoking their smallest, most intricate emotions with master-level eloquence. But at heart, Home is Jack's book, or it should be, and therein lies the problem. He's charming enough--God knows what the Boughton family did for the 20 years he was gone, since he's the only one in the house who can make a proper joke. He just isn't quite real. It's impossible to locate in Jack the anger and lust that drove him to defile...
...face of mounting criticism, Ortega has escalated his religious rhetoric, even adopting holy titles for government programs: His new microcredit program is called "In the Name of God!" - making any attempt at criticism akin to blasphemy...
...infamy, the defamation, the lies!" Ortega thundered during a recent speech. "Who was slandered more than Christ? Who was defamed more than Christ?" Ortega reminded his followers that "we are a faithful nation...God gives our families the strength to find happiness and to overcome the most difficult moments...
...When a person is accustomed to viewing history as a process that is out of his or her control, that person can easily accept a political or religious leader who plays the role of God on earth," said Andres Perez Baltodano, a Nicaraguan political science professor at the University of Western Ontario...
...true revolutionary government of the left tries to transform the image of God to support a cultural transformation based on equality and social justice," says María López, author of various theological works, including Just Jesus and Another God is Possible. However, she says, the Ortega government is fostering a conservative "religion of dependence" based on the image of a mysterious and powerful God...