Oral Fixation

So I see Oral Roberts is dead at 91, only 23 years after he claimed that unless he received $4.5 mil­lion for scholarships at his med school by a certain date, God would "take him home in one year.” The P.T. Barnum fan in me giggled over Roberts' claim that God wasn't going to cure cancer until each & everyone out there sent him $240, even as I was angered at a man of "faith" who would use cancer as a fundraiser and threaten his own death - at the hands of his supposed Maker, no less - in the name of righteousness. And I was fascinated by the idea of a 900-foot vision of Jesus who allegedly told Roberts in '77 that the City of Faith Medical and Research Center should be built -- 27 years before a 62-foot-tall "Touchdown Jesus" stepped into the waters of the Solid Rock Church off I-75 north of Cincinnati. By the way, Oral's hospital went belly-up faster than an overfed goldfish in 1987, just a few months after Immoral Oral announced that he had raised more than God had told him to dig up. Talk about the Lord working in mysterious ways! This mystery was downright stupefying: Who on God's green Earth sent this man money to keep him from dying? And why, oh why, did they bother?

Not familiar with Oral's particular brand of religious madness and homophobia? Check out this old video, where Oral talks about "oriFICES" -- don't miss the long "I" --and organs and waste matter and the like. You'll never look at your mouth, nose or ear quite the same way again. And keep in mind, as Oral shared, "Everybody knows when sexual arousal reaches a certain point, the person goes insane." Crazy, man, crazy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61_rPgitFmc