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...minister to American Dreams. His own dream is of becoming "a major player in the turtle trade." Not far away, as Mike Bryan tells us in Uneasy Rider: The Interstate Way of Knowledge (Knopf; 349 pages; $25), is Phil ("Shorty") Kendrick, a former egg deliverer who, having seen Jesus, is planning a 450-ft. model of Noah's ark. So far his kingdom extends mostly to a 14-year-old camel he drags around for cameos in Easter pageants...
...secret that every Sunday the Memorial Church congregation worships God and Jesus Christ. The Church is the house of God, reserved for prayer and worship. We are now in the season of Eastertide, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. What did Liu expect...
Didn't Liu sense that the service might have something to do with Jesus when he saw the archbishop wearing a cross around his neck as he proceeded down the aisle? Maybe Liu sensed that people came to worship God when the congregation read aloud from the Psalter. How about the Lord's prayer? That one is a dead give away: "Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name...
...leave you until I have done what I have promised." But if Liu was asleep during the first lesson, he had another warning of the "religious nature" of the service when Gomes read the second lesson from Philippians 2:1-15, where Paul explains that "in the name of Jesus every knee should bend...and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord..."God was everywhere in the service...
...audacious claim that "many in the audience" were "oblivious to the fact that Jesus was being sneaked in on them" neither confirms his utter lack rudimentary deductive logic, nor expresses his own pathetic attempt to find something about religion he can cry about. Perhaps Liu is the clear minded atheist who sees right through the Church's plot to convert an "unsuspecting audience" to Christianity. It might not have occurred to Liu that people go to church for the explicit reason of worshiping God. Some people do believe in that stuff, you know. If Liu does not want to hear...