Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...angry retelling of Genesis changes Abraham's nephew Lot from a shepherd into the radical lawyer of Sodom. In one case, Lot represents a man who has murdered his own parents, throwing the defendant on the mercy of the court because he is now an orphan. When Jehovah condemns the town, Lot flees with his family. His wife, of course, turns into the traditional pillar of salt. But that hardly disturbs her husband; he retires to a cave with his daughters, and there they live like savages. It is a fate worthy of degenerates, concludes the author. "Except...
...Diversity is as necessary as vaccinations," he said, adding, "We don't let Jehovah's Witnesses avoid vaccinations and the same should hold for diversity. Unfortunately, students in America have to wait until they take anthropology to realize that the world is not made up of middle-class, white Americans. The stark fact is that two-thirds of the world is non-white." And Clark said he had come North to try and raise interest in the question of how to use diversity. "I do not believe," he said, "that the North has faced up to the challenge of desegregation...
...medical profession. Dr. Geyer is committed to promoting the advancement of life-saving technology, and artificial blood will save lives. Fluosol molecules are smaller than those of blood and could more easily penetrate clots in heart attack victims. For members of religions preventing blood transfusions such as Jehovah's Witnesses, a loss of blood may no longer signal death as Fluosol is not really blood...
...opposition to medicine is sweeping: Herbert W. Armstrong, leader of the Worldwide Church of God, calls vaccines "monkey pus" and likens the use of physicians to worship of pagan gods. Christian Science urges its adherents to conquer illness by prayer, but allows them, if they insist, to consult doctors. Jehovah's Witnesses are forbidden blood transfusions but are allowed other medical procedures. Ironically, because Witnesses are permitted to consult doctors, they have been involved in many legal cases: if the ailing child of a church member requires a transfusion after being hospitalized, a court order is quickly obtained...
...like interviews. Well, what do you want to ask me?" I tell her and she says, "All right, let's go." The three of us go into the living room. Katherine Jackson sits poised and serene. Michael calls her Kat. She is a devout Jehovah's Witness and is very proud, very protective of her family. She says, "Ever since Michael was very young, he seemed different to me from the rest of the children. I don't believe in reincarnation, but you know how babies move uncoordinated? He never moved that way. When he danced...