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...revelation, telling him to gather "seven young wives." Mitchell later detailed the vision in a 27-page religious tract, "The Book of Immanuel David Isaiah," in which he extolled the "blessing" of polygamy and called himself a "just and mighty" deity. "Somewhere along the line, he decided he was God," says Pamela Atkinson of the Volunteers of America homeless-outreach program, who counseled Mitchell during this period. "He comes across as gentle in his preaching...
...hard to ignore and at times seemed to flagrantly court attention. On Sept. 27, Mitchell had the first of two brushes with law enforcement when he was picked up for shoplifting batteries, gum, a flashlight and a beer from a supermarket. His name, he told police, was "Go with God...
...least successful tales are the one-joke pieces like "God," where the Almighty appears to a "painfully average" office drone in the guise of a fat man floating on air. The joke is that God appears as a fat man. Snooze-ville. A sharp editor would have axed it in favor of expanding some of the other stories that seem under-developed. "Cake," for example, about a disgruntled teacher who starts sharing urine-spiked cakes with his co-workers, strains to keep its head above the quicksand of the central sick joke. Only at the end does it start...
Different views of the crucifixion are emblematic of varying perceptions of the relationship of humans to God, Bynum said...
...Christ interposes himself as a shield between us and God,” Bynum said...