Prophecy, Scorn and a Rejection of This World: The Forbidding Vision of a Faith-Healing Preacher

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It was a stark and forbidding vision for those who followed the righteous path. Scorn, the preacher told his congregation, was a person’s lot if they led an “honest, clean, pure, godly life.” The world hated “people that live like that,” he said.

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