mjb (01/22/83)
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ORAL *OR* CANCER - WHAT PRICE A CURE? The following article is reprinted in part from the Providence Evening Bulletin (1/18/83). What I find particularly interesting is the specific cost/partner Jesus came up with, and the fact that the conversation lasted seven hours. No further comment. ---------------- LETTER SAYS GOD TO GIVE HIM PLAN FOR CANCER CURE (LA Times) In one of the boldest religious fund-raising appeals yet, evangelist Oral Roberts is sending out millions of letters saying that Jesus appeared to him and told him God had chosen Roberts to find the cure for cancer. This "supernatural breakthrough," according to Roberts' letters and messages on his television program this month, will occur at Roberts' yet-unfinished Tower of Faith research center in Tulsa, Okla. Roberts said the Lord told him to ask his hundreds of thousands of "prayer partners" to send $240 each to complete the center so researchers there can find cures for cancer and "other dread diseases." Roberts, saying that cancer is "the work of the devil," appealed for the donations on the basis of what he described as a seven-hour-long conversation he had with Jesus, and added that the dialogue "is still continuing." [At this point the article describes a fund raising letter of two years ago in which Roberts reported a "vision" of a 900-foot-tall Jesus.] In the current 12-page appeal letter, Roberts describes his "new marching orders" from the Lord. He quotes the Lord as telling him: "I would not have had you and your partners build the 20-story research tower unless I was going to give you a plan that will attack cancer in both a physical and spiritual way that is different than any cancer research programs in the world today. I did not have you build the tower debt-free in its present stage just to have it stand empty." ----------------
geo (01/24/83)
Brunix.1285 summarizes a newspaper article about a recent announcement from Oral Roberts, the evangelist and faith healer, that he had had a conversation with Jesus, in which Jesus had told him he had chosen Roberts to find the cure to cancer. My thanks to mjb@brunix for submitting this article. I would like to recommend the book "Prime-Time Religion" to all of you who found the original article interesting. This book is a scathing indictment of the appalling hypocrisy and corruption in Oral Roberts organizations.
gaw (01/25/83)
#R:brunix:-128500:fortune:6700006:000:182 fortune!gaw Jan 24 15:53:00 1983 What hogwash! Rip-off! Cancer is caused strictly by improper consumption. (Eating the wrong things, eating too much, smoking, etc. There should not be such a great 'mystery')
mcewan (01/27/83)
#R:brunix:-128500:uiucdcs:10600037:000:324 uiucdcs!mcewan Jan 26 22:53:00 1983 ***** uiucdcs:net.misc / fortune!gaw / 4:06 pm Jan 24, 1983 What hogwash! Rip-off! Cancer is caused strictly by improper consumption. (Eating the wrong things, eating too much, smoking, etc. There should not be such a great 'mystery') ---------- The discussion of religion is a few notes down from here.