16/12/2009
Ding Dong
I know they say let he who is without sin cast the first stone, but I can’t find that guy and I love rock chucking.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
Not to mention the whole “thou shall not steal” and “thou shall not covet” stuff.
That’s 3 of the top 10 and I’m not even trying.
It is bad to take pleasure in a man’s death, unless that man is Oral Roberts, who pioneered televangelism, most famously telling his followers in 1987 that he would die if they did not help him meet his fundraising goal. The money, of course, went to support his lavish lifestyle. My parents gave him money that year, though much later they kind of came to their senses but only for Oral’s specific case. (They continued to give money, time, and affiliation to Christian hucksters for decades, some of whom still solicit donations via the internet, to my everlasting temptation.)
Oral Roberts died yesterday, and as I will say again when the Reverend Fred Phelps dies: I wish there was a heaven just so these men will be conscious of not being in it. Even if you haven’t heard of Oral Roberts, he did more bad in this world than he’s gotten credit for. The world is a slightly better place today.
- Sent from the darkest, most disturbing part of my microscopic heart.
Text posted at 10:45
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