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• The Manichaeans had two Jesuses, an impassive and a passive, a Savior of souls and a Savior of bodies.
• Witchcraft, voodoo, black magic, and sorcery may not play prominent parts in American religion, but faith healing and miracle working are extremely important - to such an extent that they, too, have tended to become organized and institutionalized, much to the horror of the more liberal religionists who are aghast at plastic Jesuses on automobiles and towers of faith at Oral Roberts University.
• One Christmas, he talked me into going around town stealing all the baby Jesuses out of creche scenes. We had Jesuses that lit up from underneath and Jesuses whose crowns lit up and Jesuses whose hands and feet moved. We had porcelain Jesuses and plastic Jesuses and wooden Jesuses...
• His Jesus, who has important precursors in the Jesuses of Jewison and Greene, is embarrassingly riven and indecisive.
• This interest comes in part from living in the southern United States and being surrounded by various Jesuses, from the fiery cosmic judge of the immanent end time of the Pentecostal denominations to the more distant enthroned high priest in liturgical garb and voice of the higher church traditions.