When George Baker first got into the God game back in 1907, the pantheon was packed. What with such ranking deities as Father Obey, Elijah of the Fiery Chariot, St. John the Vine, and Joe World, among many others, the heavenly host could hardly muster enough worshipers to go around. So George, an itinerant lawn mower and hedge clipper from Georgia, settled for an apprentice apostleship a "God in the Sonship Degree" with Father Jehovia, a former Pittsburgh steelworker who had a cult in Baltimore.
But George was not cut out to be a second-class celestial. When he...
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