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von Hoffman, Nicholas | March 5, 1988 issue

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The article presents information on political developments around the world. Black Americans have suffered brutal racist attacks in every generation, despite the rise and fall of movements for equality or integration. Pat Robertson has been hedging about the Anti-Christ. Only a few years ago Robertson wrote that he believed the Evil One had been born. Jimmy Swaggart, in image and manner, is part of the very eidos of a broad swath of American Protestantism. The first hot blast of the Second Coming, Jimmy can instill a sense of sin in grown-up nonbelievers, sending them back to the tongue-in-groove, flat-boarded, hell-and-repentance churches of childhood memory.

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POLITICAL development; AFRICAN Americans; RACISM; ROBERTSON, Pat; SWAGGART, Jimmy; PROTESTANTISM
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