Word: theocratic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zion's Founder John Alexander Dowie, in which the Passion Play was being performed every Sunday. To his horror, black smoke "in five different and widely separated places" was billowing out of the Tabernacle and Overseer Voliva later said he heard 15 explosions. Zion's head theocrat frantically summoned firemen. Le Roy Peacy, the salesman who was Christus in the Passion Play, rescued his costume, but the building burned quickly, set fire to the Church's adjacent broadcasting station, lay in ruins before Zion and Waukegan firemen could do much about...