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Posted on: November 30, 2007 9:09 AM, by Ed Brayton
Richard Roberts says God told him to resign from ORU:
God told him on Thanksgiving that he should resign the next day, Roberts told students in the university's chapel."Every ounce of my flesh said 'no'" to the idea, Roberts said, but he prayed over the decision with his wife and his father, Oral Roberts, and decided to step down.
Two weeks ago, he was sure that he would be back as president "in God's timing." No word on whether the God he spoke to this time was of the 900 foot tall variety.
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Richard got off easy. God threatened to 'call home' Oral if he didn't found ORU.
Posted by: ca_geologist | November 30, 2007 9:35 AM
I guess God told him to embezzle, too.
Posted by: Kristine | November 30, 2007 10:42 AM
This is the most text I have seen from the Lord our God in some time. Praise be the Word of the Lord. Do you think there is enough to write a new Gospel or something?
Posted by: Greg Laden | November 30, 2007 11:13 AM
Do you think there is enough to write a new Gospel or something?
These days, God speaks through his followers' after-the-fact, whiny "I'll show 'em" autobiographies, Greg.
Posted by: Kristine | November 30, 2007 12:09 PM
So I guess it was nothing to go with the $70 million promised to ORU by a wealthy benefactor on condition that he resign and that ORU put its financial house in order (they were losing several million dollars per year).
Of note also was that there were three people missing from the last ORU Board of Regents meeting which discussed the report they commissioned into the scandal. Purely by coincidence, of course, the three appeared to be the same three who may be investigated by Congress for their own financial improprieties: Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn, and Kenneth Copeland. Somehow I suspect the new BOR will look a little different.
Posted by: tacitus | November 30, 2007 12:12 PM
Ha-ha! Oh, man! That wasn't God, that was Me, Satan. I was just goofing with the guy, putting him on. It was too easy, a lead-pipe cinch. Well, what should I expect, he's as dumb as a stump.
Posted by: The Devil | November 30, 2007 12:22 PM
God was speaking through that benefactor, obviously.
Posted by: Gretchen | November 30, 2007 1:14 PM
Man I love religion! You can't get this much free (to me at least) entertainment anywhere else. What comedian needs a writer when you have religion just giving this stuff to you free!
Posted by: soboco | November 30, 2007 1:52 PM
Funny editorial cartoon from the Tulsa World about the gift
http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?subjectID=63&articleID=071129_7_A16_NoArt55573
Posted by: JMax | November 30, 2007 2:16 PM
@soboco
Actually, it's pretty sad, especially if you are of a religious persuasion yourself.
The problem with the secular media is not so much that they attempt to destroy christianity. That would the stupid. The fundos are doing a swell job of it already. It is that those same media are facillitating the hijack of entire faiths by .. well, cranks.
It irritates me that the entire group of christians/muslims etc. who do think along realistic lines is basically ignored. It irritates me that I have to explain that I'm not siding with ORU and the STACLU, for all I care, every time I tell people I am a christian. That is much the same as muslims having to explain until they're blue in the face that they're not automatically Taliban.
That you also can't read Dispatches without reading comments going wild over how stupid 'christians' are isn't that bad. It is however, in my opinion, discourteous. I'd still hope people would say 'fundamentalist' or 'bible-thumping moronic' in front of 'christians'. That would be more correct and also more polite.
Posted by: Maarten | December 2, 2007 2:46 AM
Discourteous?
Oh. You poor thing. I can't imagine the pain you must be in.
Posted by: Leni | December 2, 2007 5:52 AM