Oral Roberts is dead.

[Cainkane1]

I always perceived this man to be a charlatan. The people who he was supposed to be healing weren't visibly ill. No amputated limbs ever appeared and no hunchbacks ever had their spine straighted out. No blind people could see no deaf could really hear. He contributed nothing of value to society and hopefully nobody really misses him.

 

[Marduk]

who is oral roberts ?
sounds kinky

 

[Doubt]

What? No blackmail effort from God this time?

 

[Nonpareil]

He contributed nothing of value to society and hopefully nobody really misses him.

While I don't like Roberts, I have to say that this strikes me as overly callous.

 

[paximperium]

While I don't like Roberts, I have to say that this strikes me as overly callous.

While I do hope his "university" collapses into ruin and his crap based beliefs die with him, his family and friends do miss him.

 

[Mister Agenda]

I hope he died peacefully.

 

[Ysidro]

who is oral roberts ?
sounds kinky

American televangelist. In '87 he claimed if he did raise $8mil God would call him home.

A co-worker thinks all the money blocked his ears until now.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What steps have been taken to make sure he stays dead?

 

[shemp]

What steps have been taken to make sure he stays dead?

I would love to see him return as a zombie.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I would love to see him return as a zombie.

You mean "remain", not "return", right?

 

[Marduk]

I would love to see him return as a zombie.

Only Jewish Messiahs can do that and even then it doesn't last

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

The 900 foot tall Jesus came to take him home.

 

[Spektator]

My favorite Oral Roberts University tale:

A centerpiece of the campus is the Praying Hands monument, gargantuan praying hands that weigh 30 tons, in a courtyard setting. A freak tornado toppled the hands. Engineers couldn't figure a way to right them again without tearing apart the courtyard walls, at great expense.

Then a mousy little guy showed up and said, "If I can get them up again, without any damage to the courtyard, would you pay me a thousand bucks?"

Impossible, but with nothing to lose, they told the little guy to try. He walked to the edge of the courtyard, took a quarter out of his pocket, and tossed it in an arc over the fallen hands.

And they jumped up to smack closed on the quarter, righting themselves.

 

[paximperium]

The 900 foot tall Jesus came to take him home.

No. The giant hands did.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The 900 foot tall Jesus came to take him home.

That was Mecha-Streisand.

 

[Tricky]

I once bought one of his albums, but I couldn't play it because the hole healed up.

 

[Questioninggeller]

If anyone cares to remember Oral Roberts' activities, Randi's The Faith Healers has a chapter detailing Roberts' "miracles" / faith healing.

Also Ozzy Osbourne donated a dollar to Roberts' ministry so Roberts could get the professional help he needed.

 

[Hux]

So thats Falwell, now Roberts. Who will be next, Robertson? They have all missed the rapture.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I can see the headline in tomorrow mornings paper:

"Jesus Receives Oral"

 

[arthwollipot]

I can see the headline in tomorrow mornings paper:

"Jesus Receives Oral"

I am extremely uncomfortable about celebrating, laughing, or being in any way happy at the death of another human being. But I just couldn't help myself and giggled.