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Also, we need to stop killing other people's messiahs. O.K., it was actually the Romans who killed Jesus, but we were there. And even if it had been us, you'd think the Catholics would thank us, since otherwise they'd have churches today full of statues of a bald old guy clutching his heart in hospice care, and who's showing up every Sunday for that? But still, it's better if we stay far away from any messiahs. Even if a guy clearly isn't the Messiah but is just saying he is--walk away. There...
...Torch of Friendship” in downtown Miami. Then I noticed that almost all wore pins and T-shirts bearing the image of, not Dwayne Wade, but José Luis de Jesús Miranda, a man who claims he is—no joke—Jesus Christ. This was not the first time I had come across the name. A former co-worker had mentioned him as the leader of “Creciendo en Gracia”—Growing in Faith—the controversial and rapidly growing religious movement she belonged to. According...
When TIME asked, "Is belief in Jesus the only way to get to heaven?", Jefferts Schori said, "For us to assume that God could not act in other ways is ... putting God in an awfully small box." She implied that there are several roads to God. But faith is not cherry picking. The Presiding Bishop is in the wrong profession...
...Qana was once famous in Lebanon as the site of the biblical wedding feast where Jesus turned water into wine. But in the past 10 years, this meandering hill village has become synonymous with bloodshed and misery. In April 1996, during ?Israeli "Grapes of Wrath" campaign to destroy Hizballah guerrillas, Israeli artillery gunners shelled a United Nations base in the village, killing more than 100 civilians sheltering there. The cemetery where the victims are buried has become a national shrine, and it lies barely five minutes walk from the crushed ruins of the Hashem house...
...think that Andrea was weak"--not morally weak but chemically weak, her resistance to evil lowered by mental illness. "Think about a field of deer, and there's one limping around, and that's kind of the way I see it. Andrea was weak, and he attacked her. Jesus says, Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." But Andrea did not have the strength to resist...