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...system. He tried to start a lawn-care business but never got out of trouble with the law. In May this year he began talking about his ability to fly and his feeling that the Secret Service was looking for him. Clemmons also said he believed he was the Messiah and that the President would soon acknowledge him as such. But on Nov. 28, Clemmons apparently wasn't reflecting on his relationship with God. Ed Troyer, spokesman for the Pierce County sheriff's office, told reporters that on that night Clemmons was bragging to friends that they should look...
...you’re that kid who already listens to Christmas music:Check out the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus concert, Handel’s Messiah (Part 1: The Christmas Story). Aww. Don’t you love the holidays?Sanders Theater, Friday November 20, 7:30 pm, $20 per adult. $10 per student...
...their actions are geared more toward social rewards or their legacy than the promise of paradise in the afterlife? Yes. We in the West tend to overemphasize belief in such things as heaven, hell, the Messiah, etc. as a motivator for religious actions. The most important element, by far, is social approval, honor, acceptance by the group, the love of a spiritual master and all the joys that go with these...
...Christian or Jewish groups who have suffered injustice? Or among African Americans in the 20th century? The reason that I explore in my book is that Christianity and Judaism have evolved a very powerful tradition of comedy that undermines the heroic stature of someone who presumed to be the Messiah. And in some ways, the suicide bomber is someone who says, "I'm like the Messiah, my martyrdom is so great that what I'm doing for the community is like what Hussein...
...like the Arab contingent that insists on the continued presence of “al-naqba” in school textbooks—considers the State of Israel an abomination, a presumptuous violation of God’s promise to recreate the Jewish kingdom with the coming of the messiah...