Word: yahweh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Miami civic leaders hailed Yahweh ben Yahweh for his message of black self- sufficiency and clean living. The mayor declared a day honoring Yahweh for his efforts to get drug dealers out of blighted neighborhoods. But a Fort Lauderdale jury was unpersuaded by the notion of sect leader as Boy Scout. After five days of deliberation, Yahweh and six of his followers were found guilty of conspiracy in the murders of "white devils" and fire bombing an entire block of Delray Beach...
Robertson started his empire in 1959 with wyah, a ramshackle station in Portsmouth, Va., whose call letters stand for Yahweh (God in Hebrew). Since then, he has masterfully mixed the 700 Club, a religious talk show, with the Family Channel, a 24-hour oasis of clean entertainment, to build a lucrative media operation, which U.P.I.'s newsgathering would neatly complement. Robertson has one month to review the agency's books, after which he can adjust his offer or drop it completely...
...What's often missing in these people is deep community or religious activity that goes far beyond just writing a check to a charity. You don't have to believe in Jesus or Yahweh or some higher being, but you have to subordinate yourself to a greater cause. When you do that, you don't take advantage of people, you don't exploit them...
...belief that Jesus Christ was sent to save fallen humanity from sin. St. Paul, the missionary of Christianity to the Gentiles, was a repressed and "self-loathing" homosexual. As for the Old Testament, it contains a "vicious tribal code of ethics" attributed to a "sadistic" God. The idea that Yahweh bestowed the Promised Land upon the Israelites is "arrogance...