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...probably going to stay that way for the rest of our lives. The question, of course, is how different, and Bush will soon have to begin helping us chart the dimensions of the new normal. How he does it will be a measure of how his judgment of us has evolved. For all his faith and focus on this crisis, the President can't lead us to higher, safer ground without assessing our strength and stamina along with his own. If he's having trouble, maybe it's because he's just asking the same questions about us that...
...distant village in Henan province two years ago so that she could teach the life of Jesus. Suddenly, the women vanished and a man entered. For the next five days he refused to let her leave and forced her to debate the Bible. He said the day of judgment is nigh. Jesus has returned. China?the Great Red Dragon from the Book of Revelations?faces destruction. By the end, "I was dizzy. I was confused. He knew the Bible so well," says Sister Hong. Her pleading, plus promises to return, finally won her release. Lightning had struck again...
...heaven in the coming apocalypse. They see signs of doom everywhere, from the perfidy of Communist Party propaganda to anthrax spores in the U.S. postal system. According to one of the group's Chinese leaders who uses the alias "Peter" and moved to New York City last year, "The judgment is ongoing in China and will expand through the world...
...Bible for China violates core Christian tenets. The appeal seems to be the group's claim to have improved the Christian faith by putting the end of the world into a Chinese context and offering believers a path to immediate salvation. Official Christian churches, by contrast, downplay the Final Judgment, emphasizing instead codes of behavior. That, plus the sect's insistence that China is "disintegrating from within," appeals to peasants, many of whom are poorly grounded in Christian principles and are angry at a government that has failed to raise their incomes or curb corruption...
...said he based his judgment on the experiences of his friends who attend Harvard. “[My friends] have said that there is a lot of pressure on students to succeed from other students,” Parker said...