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Scandal brewing at Oral Roberts U. By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press Writer
Fri Oct 5, 7:00 PM ET

TULSA, Okla. - Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home."

Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal.

Richard Roberts is accused of illegal involvement in a local political campaign and lavish spending at donors' expense, including numerous home remodeling projects, use of the university jet for his daughter's senior trip to the Bahamas, and a red Mercedes convertible and a Lexus SUV for his wife, Lindsay.

She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as "underage males."

At a chapel service this week on the 5,300-student campus known for its 60-foot-tall bronze sculpture of praying hands, Roberts said God told him: "We live in a litigious society. Anyone can get mad and file a lawsuit against another person whether they have a legitimate case or not. This lawsuit ... is about intimidation, blackmail and extortion."

San Antonio televangelist John Hagee, a member of the ORU board of regents, said the university's executive board "is conducting a full and thorough investigation."[/QUOTE]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071005/ap_on_re_us/oral_roberts_scandal

and for your introduction to John Hagee, this will work fine...
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10052007/watch2.html

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Isn't that what the book "The Secret" is all about?

Well, except for the God chatter stuff.

Anyway, I really need a new car so I was thinking of buying that book.

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God is everyhere but had never been to USA
where consumerism is the norm.

Oh God i
if there is one
Save my soul
if i have one.

American God is facing a death.
Anti American God is all-pervasive and omnipotent.

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Anti American God is all-pervasive and omnipotent.

If I get the logic of opposites right here, that Anti American God would be a socialist lesbian. Do I have your god described appropriately here?

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When will Americans finally wake up and realize that there is no such God.
Mind boggling, absolutely mind boggling!

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I was born in Hindu family .
There are umpteen gods to follow - a sort of DEMOCRACY.
But I am an athiest .
My wife is a christian( Non critical )
Anti-American Gods are there- invisible but all powerful.

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I have no proof that what I am about to post is true, but, my late Uncle J---- once told for a fact that a close member in his family was offered good money to pretend to be healed by Oral Roberts, during the day when he did the healing segment on TV. They assured the person that Roberts himself was ignorant of the deception.

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It's not always that it becomes so vividly clear that some people only use religion only to attain power and money.
It's probably happens a lot but it's always fun to see someone get caught in the act.

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God as a socialist lesbian?

Now wouldn't THAT get their goat! Laughing

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For more on Hagee check this out.

http://www.rickross.com/reference/tv_preachers/tv_preachers7.html

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According to the 990 forms for GETV, the organization in 2001 netted $12.3 million from donations, $4.8 million in profit from the sales of books and tapes, and an additional $1.1 million from various other sources, including rental income.

As the nonprofit organization's president, Hagee drew $540,000 in compensation, as well as an additional $302,005 in compensation for his position as president of Cornerstone Church, according to GETV's tax statements.

He also received $411,561 in benefits from GETV, including contributions to a retirement package for highly paid executives the IRS calls a "rabbi trust," so named because the first beneficiary of such an irrevocable trust was a rabbi.

The John Hagee Rabbi Trust includes a $2.1 million 7,969-acre ranch outside Brackettville, with five lodges, including a "main lodge" and a gun locker. It also includes a manager's house, a smokehouse, a skeet range and three barns.

Taken together, his payment package, $842,005 in compensation and $414,485 in benefits, was one of the highest, if not the highest, pay package for a nonprofit director in the San Antonio area in 2001.

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