Word: yahweh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, would bother to start an argument about the divinity of Jesus, a subject that obsessed 4th century bishops. But as Armstrong reminds us, the world's three great monotheistic religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- did not arrive where they are without impassioned debates and conflicts. She contends that Yahweh was originally a savage, partisan god of war and one of several deities worshipped by the & Israelites. It took seven centuries or more for this unpleasant being to evolve into the almighty Yahweh proclaimed by the prophets as the one and only...
...bear. Show mercy and kindness and you shall recieve ((sic)) mercy and kindness . . . You have a chance to learn My Salvation. Do not find yourselves to be fighting against Me . . . Please listen and show mercy and learn of the marriage of the Lamb. Why will you be lost? ((signed)) Yahweh Koresh...
...Europe kids grow up different -- earlier and tougher. Parents still wield authority; Papa could be Yahweh with a toothache, and Mama could sell her daughter into child prostitution. And because Death hangs around the house like a spinster aunt, the kids must ever be packed off to relatives for whom child care is just the latest of life's dirty tricks. Sometimes the kids run away and never come back. No wonder children in European films often look like stunted adults. Since birth they've been in a dress rehearsal for distress...
...head of the Temple of Love, Yahweh, born Hulon Mitchell Jr. in Enid, Okla., boasted of building a $100 million real estate empire, and lectured thousands of Miami-area residents on "How to Move from Poverty to Riches." Yahweh ben Yahweh, whose name in Hebrew means "God the Son of God," says he is the son of God and that whites are "the devil," seeking to enslave blacks economically and spiritually. Appearing in white robes and a turban throughout his five-month trial, the leader quoted the Bible often and denied the charges that he had ordered the murder...
...Yahweh wasn't the only controversial figure in the courtroom; his lawyer, Alcee Hastings, was a federal judge who was impeached after questions were raised about his involvement in a bribery conspiracy, although he was acquitted of related criminal charges. Hastings, who heralded Yahweh as a persecuted "Ghandiesque" figure, is now running for Congress...