Oral Roberts RIP

[Cronus Protagonist]

Oral Roberts died the other day. When he got to Heaven, God spoke with the man of the cloth and said, "OK, get right on it... I didn't have you named Oral for NOTHING!"

[OregonBlue]

1. I suspect he will burn in hell not rest in peace.

[pruple]

2. As an atheist

I often wonder what such folks expect when they reach the pearly gates. If they believed their own hype they'd be shaking in their shoes.

[MineralMan]

5. They know. Deep down inside, people like Oral Roberts know

that this life is it. As long as you get enough money and power, it's heaven. After you die, you rot.

Oral Roberts knew, but his livelihood depended on him convincing people otherwise so they'd give him their money.

Don't tell. They all know. The Pope knows. They all know.

[grantcart]

10. In the 80s a Mormon used his skills as a counterfeiter to compose

scandalous documents that exposed Joseph Smith as a fraud.

The leaders of the Mormon Church wrote checks for millions of dollars to buy them up and put them in the vault.


This is absolute proof that they in fact know.

[valerief]

14. I'm amazed people don't realize this. Like people who say, for example,

Bush believes what he told America. It's his job to lie. He lied. Just because he lied doesn't mean he believed his lies. Of course, Americans are expected to believe them. But then, Americans aren't educated. We're as clueless as early man who believed in the magic gods in the sky. Maybe more clueless.

[MineralMan]

15. I had a Bishop in the Catholic Church admit to me that he did

not believe any of the supernatural crap, but that he believed that the world would disintegrate into chaos if people did not have religious faith. Of course, I had given him several snifters of brandy to lubricate his tongue. Very interesting.

[valerief]

16. Funny how he still deluded himself into thinking his ilk was necessary.

Well, I guess religion is necessary for this:

[MineralMan]

17. Well, a guy has to earn a living somehow, I guess.

Selling pie in the sky worked for him, I suppose. He died in 1976. Poor old deceived man.

[rurallib]

6. so true.

[walldude]

18. Welcome to DU

and yeah I wonder myself, they know they are crooked, they know they have manipulated seniors into donating their much needed social security, they know they have "sinned before god" so you gotta wonder when he was on his last few minutes if he was crapping in his pants.

I'm usually the type of person not to say anything when someone dies, out of respect to their families but this guy.. meh, fuck him and the fundie train he rode out on.

[Fuzz]

3. 900 ft Jesus told him to go to hell.

[Arkansas Granny]

21. Are you sure it wasn't "Big Butter Jesus"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq01UYiMyHg

[Cronus Protagonist]

22. That's where he went first

Then the Devil thought, hey, why do WE have to put up with this asshole when he spent his whole life screwing the people up THERE?

[opihimoimoi]

4. He was such a waste of good food air and water for too long..Heaven? Hell NO

He will turn to dust from which he came....like the rest of us....as dust, he will be a nothing...cept maybe fertilizer

[BoneDaddy]

7. Good liberal compassion

once again.

[Cronus Protagonist]

11. haha

Enjoy your stay here. And do try to have compassion for all the people he injured in his nasty little life.

[BoneDaddy]

23. enjoy my stay?

child I have been here for much longer than you and what I see as liberal compassion makes me sick. As sick as what I have seen from the right. All talk, no real action...childish passions and no real feeling for what is right. Time to grow up

[racaulk]

13. Compassion for what?

A crook that ruthlessly and callously played on the fears of the faithful to swindle them collectively out of millions of dollars that they could not afford to give, just so he could live a life of luxury and power? He deserves our compassion just because he died?

Yeah, I'll get right on that. Perhaps we can add Jesse Helms, Jerry Falwell, and Ken Lay (if he is in fact dead) to the list.

:eyes:

[BoneDaddy]

24. Are you as adept

at sniffing out the same deformations in your own party? I am not saying your judgements are not correct, they may be, but the hate behind them makes you as bit of the same....

[racaulk]

26. My comments about Oral Roberts had nothing to do with the political party he was affiliated with.

It had to do with my disgust for him (and people like him), someone who knowingly took advantage of the good faith of so many (very often, poor) people for his own personal gain. Whether he identified as a Republican or a Democrat is irrelevant to me, my disgust for his unchecked greed and corruption would be the same regardless. There was nothing partisan about my comments.

After seeing the damage that people like this cause in our world, it is next to impossible for me to have compassion for Roberts, even in his death. If you feel that makes me a hater, well, so be it.

[walldude]

19. I once watched Old Oral work it.

In summary he gave a sermon about how it was ok to donate your social security check to him, because even if you needed it to buy food and medication God would provide. Jesus fed an army with a fish and a loaf of bread, he healed the sick with the touch of his hand and god will do the same for you if you send your money to me.

This guy was fucking slime, he preyed on the weak and easily manipulated, and he used the money he conned from them to live like a king and built a blasphemous religious empire.

Compassion? Normally I would have it at least for the family but this guy... nope not one fucking iota.

[Arkansas Granny]

20. I can remember watching him on tv back in the 50's when I was just a kid.

He held services in a big tent at the time and did faith healing at the end of his services. Even then I was very skeptical about those people who could throw away their crutches and dance down the aisle after he "healed" them. The grip he used on their head was very reminiscent of some of the wrestling holds we had seen on Saturday night wrestling. He was quite a showman.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ukbSzbjpZ8Y/SdD2_IA2-lI/AAAAAAAADUI/VkPuZTRyuVQ/s400/Oral+Roberts+06.jpg

[BoneDaddy]

25. I tend to agree ...to a point

I always find it funny when liberals talk a good game...and I tend to agree with ya on most points, even on this one. Personally, I dont really care, but I must point out the inconsistency between liberal moralism and the reveling in this man's death....funny

[WhiteTara]

8. I hope he doesn't rest in peace

the evil he perpetrated while on this planet is incalculable. I hope he is tormented throughout the centuries.

[hfojvt]

9. I kinda skimmed this book by his former daughter-in-law

the gist that I got out of it was that he started out as a decent man and then got corrupted by the wealth and power of a TV empire. Not sure what difference that makes in the end, but it made me question my assumption that he started out as a cynical snake-oil salesman.

[fascisthunter]

12. This is one person I will not show any compassion to

people like Oral Roberts do too much damage to people and society itself for me ever to consider such a thing. I'm glad he's gone...