Mr. Roberts used to employ this absolutely despicable technique during those healing shows of his. He used to have his henchmen take the obviously sickest people in the audience and rope them off at the back of his show to prevent them from ever coming up on the stage. This, while at the same time, he would certify an endless bombardment of phonies, plants, and hypochondriacs to have such an unfettered access that the dude couldn't help but look like a miracle worker....AND he made a huge shitload of money simultaneously. I mean, I don't know about you people, but in my little corner of the world, people who meter out false hope such as this, whether they be mediums, faith-healers, whatever, are the bottom of the food-chain - big time.
I have some experience with this charlatan. Sharpton is not the only huckster abusing religion for personal wealth and power.
ReplyDeleteIf anything can be said in Roberts' favor, compared to Sharpton, it is that at least Roberts' scam didn't involve calls for riots and other forms of violence, and he didn't have Sharpton's passion for trying to divide people and cause strife.
ReplyDeleteHe did establish a pretty decent university......still waiting for Sharpton U to open its doors.
Used to watch the Oral Roberts shows years ago. I thought it was a comedy series....
ReplyDeleteJerry: it is not limited to republicans. Look at Sharpton.
ReplyDeleteYou had to go political, huh, Jerry?......And you're right, dmarks, "No justice, no peace" isn't exactly helpful (especially since justice in Sharpton's mind is the railroading of an Hispanic man).
ReplyDeleteIn terms of Sharpton, "no justice, no peace" is not an if-then, but is instead a compound sentence containing two accurate descriptions of the man's goals and aims.
DeleteWill, you should look into Sharpton's efforts to incite racist hatred against Asian-Americans in general. Truly evil and loathesome. Even WD runs away from it when asked about it and changes the subject. If there is one thing to be said about Fox compared to MSNBC, it is that Fox wouldn't honor something like Sharpton's anti-Asian pogrom and reward the perpetrator of it with a TV show.
Correction, typical behavior of an evangelical fundamentalist Jerry. I rather think this example has less to do with political party than it does with mystism or faith.
ReplyDeleteI said republican because most of them, not all, are republican.
ReplyDeleteDo we have the data on that Jerry? Might make for an interesting post if so.
DeleteI agree with your assessment that most of them are Republicans, Jerry. I would just stipulate that most religious conservatives in the country probably aren't quite as loathsome and despicable as this fellow. Or at the very least I hope not.
ReplyDeleteSorry, RN. That is currently beyond my pay grade.
ReplyDeleteI think that all 3 of us would agree that this isn't our favorite branch of Republicanism.
ReplyDeleteI thought the post was about Oral Roberts.
ReplyDeleteIt's quite relevant: Sharpton is not off topic, being another corrupt preacher who is in it to make $$$$$.
ReplyDeleteJerry also took us down this road with a mindless blindly partisan comment.
It appears to have taken a left turn, huh?
ReplyDeleteNot conducive to going down the road, really.
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