Word: acceptant
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...reason is that once you move into End Times theology, the interests of the two groups split apart. According to prophecy, the Jews must be in control of Israel for Jesus to return. But in the last battle, two-thirds of the Jews perish, and the rest either accept Jesus as the true Messiah or they must be damned, literally. "In my view, any theology that continues to deny the validity of Judaism and to fantasize about looking forward to the conversion or destruction of the Jews is one that should arouse a great deal of caution among Jews," argues...
...Jerusalem. Jenkins skillfully filters the outlines that LaHaye provides through the adventures of heroes Rayford Steele, a pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, who starts out Left Behind as a 30-year-old virgin and senior writer for TIME's fictional competitor Global Weekly. Their mission is to help nonbelievers accept Christ during the rise of the Antichrist. This ultimate villain does his best to kill as many of the new Christians as possible, and in some episodes it's all Rayford and Buck can do to stay alive and protect their wives. (Yes, Buck finds a girl amid the chaos...
...which even today LaHaye calls "a model of compassion"--he wrote that homosexuality is "vile" and that gays share 16 pernicious traits, which include "incredible promiscuity," "deceit," "selfishness," "vulnerability to sadism-masochism" and "poor health and an early death." He wondered who was more "cruel and inhuman"--those who accept gays even though they are so unhappy or "those who practiced Old Testament capital punishment" on gays...
...gift of being funny even when he has something serious to say. Zevin is hilarious when he is humiliating himself, like the time he accidentally invites a pornographer to address his journalism class, but much less so in his philosophical moments, when he urges us to accept the inevitability of growing up. In fact, perhaps he shouldn't grow up at all. He's at his funniest when he's acting like a child...
HEDGE FUNDS. These investment vehicles are lightly regulated but can accept only 99 "accredited" investors who have at least $1 million in net worth, excluding home equity. A typical hedge fund charges an annual fee of 1% of assets invested, plus 20% of profits. More hedge funds are opening to those with "just" $100,000 to $250,000 to invest, but these are mainly new funds or those with lackluster performance. One strong exception is JLH Capital Investment, a "market-neutral" fund that requires a minimum stake of $250,000. A similar fund is Gryphon Partners, with...