MR

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Who?

About fucking time.
God has supposedly been calling him forever, but he said he had so much work left to do here. About time the Lord pulled rank on his ass.

heeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeee, G~boy...
RIP Oral!!

now now gbot. he was still someone's grandpa, dad, brother, husband, friend. they didn't do anything to not deserve respect and sympathy. play nice.

RIP.

I don't think OR was as bad as some of the others, was he? I may be mistaken, but so many of them turn out to be charlatans and crooks. THOSE guys deserve a straight ticket to Satan's Microwave.

Oh fuck him sideways. This guy was a con artist in the shadow of the Lord..LOL...I remember him saying he saw a 900 foot jesus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ok Oral, whatever, and who the fuck names their kid after a dirty sex act? My God. Get in the box already you fuckin kook.

Rockindeano wrote:Oh fuck him sideways. This guy was a con artist in the shadow of the Lord..LOL...I remember him saying he saw a 900 foot jesus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ok Oral, whatever, and who the fuck names their kid after a dirty sex act? My God. Get in the box already you fuckin kook.

Ah, okay- then I go with your recommendation. Televangelists are Evil period.

Well, the only way I know about him is that his namesake university gets a sympathy 16 every March Madness and gets beat like a red-headed stepchild.

People asking for money in God's name on TV are evil, period. So are people that bring those catalogs to work and solicit their co-workers to make purchases for their own child's school fundraisers.

Gunbot wrote:People asking for money in God's name on TV are evil, period. .

People
asking for money
asking for weapons
asking for behavior
asking for tax benefits
asking for political slant
asking for a certain morality

all based on religion is evil. I believe in God. I have no use for organized religion, period.
It is icky.

Andrew wrote:Who?

He was some southern bible thumper (which I know is a bit redundant). He got on TV every week to tell everyone that God loved them and was looking over them but he wasn't so good with money, so please send in the donations

brywool wrote: I have no use for organized religion, period.

I'm with you there. Organized religion is one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated on society, and more people are killed in this world over religion than any other issue.

Enigma869 wrote:

brywool wrote: I have no use for organized religion, period.

I'm with you there. Organized religion is one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated on society, and more people are killed in this world over religion than any other issue.

While true, we'd just find another reason to kill each other if religion weren't involved. It's just a handy tool for whipping up fanaticism and hysteria

Another guy that gave Christianity a bad name as far as Im concerned.

must..... not...... comment.......

I think his brother Rectal is taking over the ministry.

Rick wrote:I think his brother Rectal is taking over the ministry.

What about brother Anal? Doesn't he get anything?

Rockindeano wrote:Oh fuck him sideways. This guy was a con artist in the shadow of the Lord..LOL...I remember him saying he saw a 900 foot jesus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ok Oral, whatever, and who the fuck names their kid after a dirty sex act? My God. Get in the box already you fuckin kook.

Hahaha... I remember Sam Kinison (RIP) had a whole skit involving Oral and his 900 foot jesus. Good stuff

Rick wrote:I think his brother Rectal is taking over the ministry.

Andrew wrote:Who?

You had Andrew at the word "oral"!

Enigma869 wrote:

Andrew wrote:Who?

He was some southern bible thumper (which I know is a bit redundant). He got on TV every week to tell everyone that God loved them and was looking over them but he wasn't so good with money, so please send in the donations

ahhh....I know the kind. God is BIG business! Just ask the Vatican!

Well, God finally did call him home this time, and the Christians didn't have to pony up a dime. Go God!

T-Bone wrote::?

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nolippin wrote:Well, God finally did call him home this time, and the Christians didn't have to pony up a dime. Go God!

T-Bone wrote::?

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What's up asshole? Long time no-type!

Andrew wrote:

Enigma869 wrote:

Andrew wrote:Who?

He was some southern bible thumper (which I know is a bit redundant). He got on TV every week to tell everyone that God loved them and was looking over them but he wasn't so good with money, so please send in the donations

ahhh....I know the kind. God is BIG business! Just ask the Vatican!

This is the scandal that reveals what a money grubbing charleton he is ..........I say withold the money and see if it comes true. Lived to 90 something. Must have been nice on sweet old lady donations. Beware any group begging.
Fund Raising: Did Oral Roberts Go Too Far?
The television evangelist links receiving $8 million to the extension of his earthly life.
Randy Frame | posted 12/15/2009 05:21PM

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This article was originally published in the February 20, 1987, issue of Christianity Today.

Thoughts about heaven are not new to Oral Roberts. In 1975, the Tulsa evangelist told a chapel audience at Oral Roberts University (ORU) that he had asked God to take him, but God did not answer.

This time, according to Roberts, God is taking the initiative. Roberts has stated in a fund-raising appeal letter and on television that unless he raises a total of $8 million above regular ministry expenses by next month, he will die.

“I desperately need you to come into agreement with me concerning my life being extended beyond March,” states a fund-raising letter signed by Roberts.

“…God said, ‘I want you to use the ORU medical school to put My medical presence in the earth. I want you to get this going in one year or I will call you home!’” Roberts says he received this message last March.

The evangelist likens his situation to the apostle Paul who, in the New Testament Book of Philippians, spoke of his desire to “depart and be with Christ,” but also of his responsibility to “abide with you in the flesh.” According to Roberts’s letter, “when it looked like Paul would go on to heaven, his partners flooded him with the necessary money, each one giving to God’s servant out of their own need.”

A follow-up letter signed by Roberts’s son, Richard, affirms that without the money needed to send out missionary healing teams, “God will not extend Dad’s life.” Oral and Richard Roberts made similar statements on their weekly television program. A public outcry led several television stations to drop programs containing the controversial appeal.

I'm perpetually flummoxed by the ability of these fearmongers to swindle God-loving Christians out of their hard-earned money.

I sent Jim Baker an Italian Lira one time...true story.