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...come you Jehovah's Witness families become famous? You're not so entertaining when you come to my door...
Which brings us to Richard Williams. In a house full of Jehovah's Witnesses, he puffs away on his cigarettes: pure Daddy Williams, an odd duck living in a world defined by Richard's rules. He said he would raise champs by keeping them off the junior circuit, and everyone said he was nuts. Well? He used to upset people by bragging on his girls; now he upsets them by sharing the stage. But look closely. The girls roll their eyes, but do they shove him aside...
...analogies leap up unbidden. Jesus? The Unabomber on hunger strike? Later, as we watch playbacks--a tight shot of a drenched Hanks rolling his eyes--Zemeckis offers another. "It's Moses! You're talking to God!" Hanks laughs at his woebegone image, his voice dropping to a thunder-of-Jehovah bass: "'Damn you!' That's Chuck Heston, baby! Chuck Heston Noland...
...suicide attempt, which ends not in death but in holy matrimony to the prettiest young thing in his vicinity. She is Clara Bowden, 19, Jamaican and missing the entire upper deck of her teeth. That is only the literal manifestation of her rootlessness, for she has lost her faith (Jehovah's Witnesses) and loses her mother, who kicks her out upon learning of her miscegenation. Archie and Clara are supposed to save each other. Instead, they spend their lives accommodating an impulsive moment...
...editors then proceed to equate opposition to abortion with the beliefs of Christian Scientists and Jehovah's Witnesses concerning the morality of receiving medical care. This argument obscures the fact that for pro-lifers, abortion is not merely a private sin (as, say, eating meat on Fridays in Lent is for Catholics) but a public crime: the deliberate taking of human life. And opposition to abortion is not a peculiar tenet of a single Denomination--rather, it is common to nearly all orthodox western religions, ranging from Missouri Synod Lutheranism to Shi'ite and Sunni Islam, and from Russian Orthodoxy...