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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...
What to do? An acre-foot is the amount of water it would take to flood an acre one foot deep, and if you can find 70,000 of them lying around for the taking in Southern California, you can probably change your name to Yahweh and begin collecting burnt offerings. No obvious replacement source presented itself in the Mono Lake dispute until recently, when an economist named Zach Willey suggested that the city and the environmentalists get together to buy water from farmers on the western side of the Sierras in California's vast central valley...
...sages were not always consistent. Johnson points out that while Yahweh, God of Abraham and Moses, was physically unimaginable, Jewish humanism is centered on a vivid Old Testament injunction: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made...