Evangelist Oral Roberts dead at 91

[33girl]

Originally Posted by aopirose

Remember when Marvin Gorman and Jimmy Swaggart were going toe-to-toe in the infidelity department? Swaggart exposed Gorman's mistresses and he was defrocked by the Assemblies of God then Gorman had his son trail Swaggart. Swaggart was got with two different prostitutes and his ministry tumbled.

Wasn't that all after the Jim & Tammy Faye fiasco?

The one that freaked me out was Kathryn Kuhlman!! Scary eyes...FREEEEEAAKY.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by aopirose

Remember when Marvin Gorman and Jimmy Swaggart were going toe-to-toe in the infidelity department? Swaggart exposed Gorman's mistresses and he was defrocked by the Assemblies of God then Gorman had his son trail Swaggart. Swaggart was got with two different prostitutes and his ministry tumbled.

I remember that ...I'm from Baton Rouge where Swaggart's church and Bible College was. I remember people crying on the evening news saying, "The church without Jimmy Swaggart is like Christianity without Jesus!"
There is still the carcase of an unfinished dorm from the Bible College on Bluebonnet Lane marking his folly.

[angels&angles]

I guess he's finally gone to see that 900-foot-tall Jesus.

Ugh. That guy.

(I'm really too young, but a more-than-passing acquaintance with good-ol Oral is just one of the joys of growing up in OK)

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by angels&angles

I guess he's finally gone to see that 900-foot-tall Jesus.

Ugh. That guy.

(I'm really too young, but a more-than-passing acquaintance with good-ol Oral is just one of the joys of growing up in OK)

is he the guy that said he was going to go live in a tower until someone gave him a million dollars? (or that God told him to live in a tower?). If so, my grandma sent him money...

[aopirose]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

is he the guy that said he was going to go live in a tower until someone gave him a million dollars? (or that God told him to live in a tower?). If so, my grandma sent him money...

Kinda sorta. He's the guy who said that God was going to "call him home" if he didn't raise $8 million in 3 months. That was an interesting 3 months.

[AGDee]

I saw Tammy Faye on something recently. She didn't look well.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I saw Tammy Faye on something recently. She didn't look well.

She died a few years ago: http://www.tammyfaye.com/

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

She died a few years ago: http://www.tammyfaye.com/

Hence the not-looking-well.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

So..... if so many of us thought Oral Roberts was already dead, does that mean we were always confusing him with someone else, or was he out of the public eye for so long that we thought he was dead?

I get him and Bob Jones mixed up.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Hence the not-looking-well.

Or the looking better-than-expected, depending on your outlook.

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

I get him and Bob Jones mixed up.

I get Bob Jones and Jim Jones confused. Which is why I was when I first heard of Bob Jones University. I couldn't figure out why a school would be named after the cyanide kool-aide guy.

Then again, I'm a midwestern Catholic, so I'm not up on my televangelists.

[Senusret I]

I get Jim Jones mixed up with Mike Jones.

Who?

Mike Jones.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I get Jim Jones mixed up with Mike Jones.

Who?

Mike Jones.

His album's coming soon.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I get Jim Jones mixed up with Mike Jones.

Who?

Mike Jones.

HA.

[FSUZeta]

i lived in tulsa for a while and could actually see the tip of the prayer tower from my kitchen window. i have 2 stories to share about oral roberts/oru.

there was some funky architecture on that campus-the prayer tower looked like something out of the "jetsons". i was driving past oral roberts university(oru) with my daughter, who was about 2 at the time, when she looked out the window toward the campus and shouted out,"disney world."

when i was pregnant with my daughter i was shopping at the same grocery store with mrs. oral roberts. her chauffeur followed her around the store as she placed things in the cart. heaven help you if you got in her way-she would just plow right over you. they exited the store a little before me and undoubtedly as i waddled to my car with my groceries, i was in their way, because i saw her directing her chauffeur to honk the horn at me(which he did), as she shooed me with her hand. they were in a rolls royce. nasty people!