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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tawny, twinkly eyed, Johnny Mathis handsome, Eikerenkoetter is 37 now. Until he was 30, he was just a doomsaying, fundamentalist black preacher, a Baptist minister's son from Ridgeland, S.C., trying to make good in the world of black storefront religion in Boston and New York. But in 1965, he adopted the style that was to set him apart. Instead of preaching humility and meekness, he began to preach a pride bordering on arrogance. "Say it after me," Ike tells his listeners. "All that God is, I am." He also stopped talking about hell. "I discovered after analyzing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: That T-Bone Religion | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

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