Mr Castillo Gaete, who was known as "Antares from the Light", considered himself a god and believed the world was about to end on 21 December 2012, authorities say.

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Haggard calls himself a walking miracle and credits God for keeping him healthy.

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And God himself is a physical being.

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But he is accountable to a board of directors: God Himself, the Blessed Trinity.

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John, finding himself before the Throne of God, sees a lamb, an image of Christ, who receives a scroll sealed by seven seals.

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Apparently hunter and gatherers think a god should know how to provide for himself.

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Coleridge believed (if such a searching and puzzling mind can ever be summed up), that all creation, especially man himself, was suffused with God, and that imagination was a function of the divine power, a recovered memory of a higher state.

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His sister, a faith healer, had by then convinced him to commit himself totally to God.

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Slavers could count on the Archbishop of Canterbury to defend them before God, and on politicians, like the young William Gladstone, himself the son of a plantation-owner, to plead their case in Parliament.

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