tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post8087411742703998256..comments2024-03-25T17:35:02.238-04:00Comments on Debunking Christianity: Oral Roberts Died Today at 91 Years of AgeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-22289178704063789652009-12-17T15:41:05.459-05:002009-12-17T15:41:05.459-05:00Like Billy Mays, Roy Disney and others who have di...Like Billy Mays, Roy Disney and others who have died since the middle of this year, I geuss they just didn't want to live in a world without Michael Jackson.Rob Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937716910001145836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-55428660129906606992009-12-16T19:27:42.635-05:002009-12-16T19:27:42.635-05:00Faithhhh can move mountainssss ! ..of moneyFaithhhh can move mountainssss ! ..of moneyGandolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02624178234332819107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-32015814180861621012009-12-16T10:00:11.126-05:002009-12-16T10:00:11.126-05:00Oral's career illustrates Gregory S. Paul'...Oral's career illustrates <a href="http://gspaulscienceofreligion.com/" rel="nofollow">Gregory S. Paul's thesis</a>. We live in a country full of paupers, even "well paid" ones with little or no net worth; and we don't have much of a social safety net, unlike Western European countries, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Canada. The chronic economic and status anxiety we live with causes many Americans, especially in low-income rural states like Oral's Oklahoma, to turn to the gods through the mediation of shamans like Oral for protection from the usual disasters.<br /><br />By contrast, the environment in other developed societies, where you really have to work at it to fall out of the middle class, tends to suppress this kind of magical thinking.<br /><br />You can find a couple of Paul's talk show appearances <a href="http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org/2009/01/18/show-291-the-big-religion-problemssolved/" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/ffrf/FTradio_178_091909.mp3" rel="nofollow">here</a> (mp3).Mark Plushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03859046131830902921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-30710857391317082782009-12-15T21:13:08.488-05:002009-12-15T21:13:08.488-05:00When one of these charlatans kicks it, another one...When one of these charlatans kicks it, another one (like Joel Osteen) steps forward to take their place.<br /><br />Oral Roberts was the kind of religious huckster and con man that only America has the capacity to produce.<br /><br />I'm convinced that at least 50 percent of the country are delusional--how else can religious charlatans like Roberts, Falwell, Swaggert and others, not to mention the political kooks on the right, command the audiences that they have?Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01763876658345223153noreply@blogger.com