???Creciendo en Gracia??????Growing in Faith???the controversial and rapidly growing religious movement she belonged to. According to the news report, the disciples had gathered on Biscayne Boulevard to celebrate their savior, and demonstrate their opposition to other religions.
Jos?? Luis de Jes??s Miranda, a man who claims he is???no joke???Jesus Christ.
De Jes??s??? devotees ripped up copies of the Bible and the Torah, smashed religious statues on the pavement, and tore baptismal gowns and wedding veils, shouting, ???Mentiras!??? or ???Lies!??? Inquisition, anyone?
What century are we living in? Thousands of people actually believed this man, who has made millions of dollars by founding, essentially, a sensational cult. When I questioned my friend about De Jes??s??? credibility, she answered, ???I know it all sounds crazy, but He???s back and this movement is just getting started. How many didn???t believe it was Him 2,000 years ago when He came to die on the cross, you know???? This is the logic behind the fastest growing religious movement in Florida. With this explanation, I internally labeled them all ???crazy religious zealots??? and filed them away with Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, and that scary monk in the ???The Da Vinci Code.???
They refuse to vote, believing that the fate of the country is predetermined and thus the electoral process is useless. Inwardly, I was relieved they didn???t vote: The country was probably better off without their opinions cast on a ballot.
Take Growing in Faith; its members overwhelmingly consist of Latin American immigrants who left an extremely strict strand of Catholicism in countries like El Salvador or Bolivia. De Jes??s offers them something new???Catholicism without original sin. Suddenly, Catholic guilt melts away and they have a voice, an opinion.
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July 22, 2006 Miami Herald headline reads: Divine or Dangerous: He's got Disciples. Who are they referring to? Why, Jesus, of course! He's alive and living in Hialeah, Florida! The only problem is: it's not really HIM! It's Apostle Jose Luis De Jes??s Miranda, the former reincarnation of the Apostle Paul who later called himself "the Other", a spiritual super-being who would pave the way for Christ's second coming. The natural and obvious progression was that he would eventually (in 2004) proclaim himself to be Jesus Christ, as evidenced on his website, International Ministry Growing In Grace, Inc.
willie c wuddle wrote:Sounds like somebody's full of poop......Or maybe in deep poop, pending on the view point.
They just did a special about him on Fox,,this guy is dangerous. "Jim Jones" had nothing on this guy.
Oh geeez, you try.
PU, I die.