Word: messiahs
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...Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), had brought an unsettling element to the campaign. Barnstorming the country in a black leather jacket, followed by hordes of young people in jeans and faded army field jackets, he brought a new style of campaigning to Greece and emerged as a political messiah of the young...
...worked for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 54, South Korea's crypto-Messiah, who packed Madison Square Garden to overflowing last week. The happening, complete with numbers by the Korean Folk Ballet, kicked off an eight-city tour that climaxes his drive to build a base in the U.S. just seven years before the Messianic Age is to begin. Moon, through an interpreter, told the Garden-goers in guttural shouts, "The time of the Second Coming of Christ is near, and America is the landing site!" Half the crowd filtered out during the 2½-hour oration...
...opponents in Korea, four times. The church's best-known practice is its arranged marriages, preferably in massive paramilitary ceremonies, after which the couple must not engage in sexual intercourse for 40 days. Moon thinks that the fall of man came when Satan seduced Eve. The first Messiah, Jesus Christ, had the major God-given task of finding the right woman and founding the Perfect Family. Since the Jews, according to Moon's teaching, "murdered" Jesus, and thus aborted that mission, Christ's death on the cross provided only a half-salvation...
That is where the Second Coming comes in. A new Messiah, who combines Christ and other holy men, must return to father the Perfect Family and redeem mankind physically. And this "Lord of the Second Advent" must be born as a normal man in Korea in this century. Who is he? Moon himself, devotees naturally assume. The Master does nothing to discourage the idea...
...months into the season, the obstreperous A's think Dark is anything but a baseball messiah. "The guy's a quack," say some players. His managerial style is unquestionably unusual. If a player ignores his directions, Dark merely contemplates the dugout's top step. When the team fails to hustle, he does not say a word. Even more disturbing to the team, Dark seems to possess a reverse Midas touch with the pitching staff. He yanks effective throwers too soon, often leaves struggling ones on the mound too long...