Oral Roberts is taking back his university and he's not going the let the devil do him in.
The university, Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma, is being sued by a couple of ex-professors for wrongful termination. In the suit, the professors noted a number of cases where university funds were wrongly used to buy Roberts' wife new cars, remodel their home several times and send their daughter on a trip to Mexico.
And does this surprise anyone? Roberts started out as a televangelist and created the university after God told him to build it or be called back to heaven. The guy is a complete nut job who has made a career of bilking ignorant people out of their hard-earned cash. Why should we expect him to run his university any differently?
He basically runs a cult. How does a cult get to have their own university? He didn't even complete college, dropping out after a couple of years to go on a "faith healing" road trip.
After creating the university that God told him to build, a 900-foot tall Jesus told him to build a medical center at the university and that it would be successful. Of course, the 900-foot Jesus was wrong and the medical center closed after eight years. But who needs a medical center when you heal people by faith.
This guys is not really any different than David Koresh, the famed prophet of the Branch Dividians in Waco, Texas, except that Koresh liked to stockpile weapons and wasn't as good at fundraising.
How in the world do people fall for this? Can't they see through this thin veil? People really are stupid.
Instead of sending money to Oral, here's a much better cause.
I often times look at these televangelists as nothing more than entertainers. Kind of like WWE wrestlers, they are paid entertainers not wrestlers. When you go to view an evangelist you are paying for the show, not a closer seat to God. Just as when you watch pro wrestling, you pay for the hype, the show is fake.
ReplyDeleteTo call it a cult, well you might be right but I would blame that on the audience, people always go to extremes. If you were to attend one of these "shows" and leave feeling good about your self, then you got your moneys worth. On the other hand if you leave and spread around that this guy had healed people before your eyes, you are doing God an injustice. Just take it for what it's worth, a few hours of feel good entertainment.
I think I would give my money to someone else that really needs it, not a new rolex like Oral Roberts.
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ReplyDeleteI agree that they can be classified as entertainers but is it fair for them to bilk little old ladies out of their Social Security checks? And I think people really do think they are getting a closer seat to God... because these televangelists tell these people that will happen. But we do have a lot of laws to protect idiots, so where do we draw the line?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I deleted one post here because the first post was submitted twice.
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