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...course, not man's, and closure may be the best we can get on this earth. And in his Monday evening speech, Clinton seemed to take this view himself. Call off the prosecutors, he said; this is between my family and "our God." The suggestion was that Jehovah would show more mercy than Starr, or Starr's jury, or Congress...
...There's no information overload here, no crank calls, no Jehovah's Witnesses bugging you and no one trying to rip you off," says Barnett, a former X-ray technician who moved here nine years ago with a bad back and a disability check...
...arrival of all guests at their host's court. Normally, this is a pro forma procedure. The host knows someone is coming, awaits that person, receives a call from us when the guest arrives and instructs us to send him up. This system prevents uninvited visitors. But for every Jehovah's Witness it frustrates, it also seems to keep out unexpected but eminently welcome visitors. With a sadistic pleasure, we detain tenants' friends and relatives, keeping them in the lobby until their host returns home, wakes up or gets out of the shower to vouch for their good character...
Hamad excuses himself, tells David he'll see him later and heads toward the street. David stands, waves goodbye, and strolls over to a pair of young men in dark slacks and ties who identify themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses. David seems happy to have found the two evangelists. After a lengthy conversation, the duo tells David that he's always welcome at their church whether he's bathed or not. "In fact," they say, "there's a church just across the river in Harvard Square...
When the old god Jehovah, or Yahweh, ceased to frighten most people, new prophets arose. People listened to preachings about capitalism, democracy, humanism, socialism and communism. When even these failed to fill the human soul, the unexplored exotic religions of the East, such as Buddhism [RELIGION, Oct. 13], beckoned. But here in the West, those religions are artificially implanted in a society that is spiritually lost. The followers are ready to be led like sheep into any corner of the religious corral--be it to mass suicide, sexual excess or even murder. Eastern religions are Eastern in their mentality...