Oral Roberts

When I was in high school in the late 1950's, Roberts was on the tube with a healing routine. He would grab the heads of some poor mopes and heal them of whatever ailed them. This caused considerable mirth among my classmates.

Can't say I'll miss him, but he did have one legacy, convincing me to never name my kids, Oral.

I didn't know he was still alive.

Uh-I know Oral Roberts University was named after him.

I'm not an authority on this breed of grifter...they have less class than mobsters, although if they're theatrical like Robert Tilton or Jimmy Swaggart, they can be sometimes entertaining...but I think Roberts was the one who started the whole concept of "seed faith"...send him whatever money you can, even if you can't afford it, and God will reward you based on how much you send. Sorta makes God sound like Don Corleone, Jesus sound like Michael Corleone, and Roberts an in-bred version of Luca Brasi (or maybe Paulie Gatto). He also had the biggest ears I've ever seen on a human being; he gave Dumbo the Elephant a run for his money. Years ago, my sister went through a Holy Roller phase (we had moved to a new town where we knew no one, she was lonely and maladjusted, as was I...but where I was ultimately able to bond with some of the drunks and junkies who lived in the area and were my age, she had the misfortune to bump into the kind of people who send "seed faith" money to Oral, and I... Read more

I won't miss him,but his demise will reduce the shelf life of a good joke : Q) What do you call two Gay guys named Bob? A) Oral Roberts !!!!

Hey no-one likes the fact that some-one has died but I'm sure many are glad to say good bye! This man was a menus to the true church of God and proved that you can get money out of anyone looking for sensationalism! But then again main-stream churches have been doing that for years!!! His approach was un-Christ like and to be honest I feel for the many fooled by his antics. As the Bible clearly says 'Test and approve those in authority over you” In this day and age I don't no what I'm more sad about; Men and Women who have been fooled or that the light is not shinning bright enough for people to see who are fake and who are not!!!!

I don't shed any tears when a grifter kicks the bucket.

Strike up the band! Apparently we all love to dance on the graves of swindlers and all-around nice guys, huh? I guess he doesn't qualify for the "death makes you blameless" clause like Michael Jackson. What a shame, what a shame...

I'm sure now that he's gone some form of cult and subsequent splinter groups will spring up around his legacy and martyrdom. The only good to come of all of that is the inevitably there will be in-fighting and misdeeds alleged by one group against the others and we will have a series of titlating tabloid headlines about scandalous Oral Sects.

The founding father of faith healing fails to cheat death at age 91. How shocking. I wonder how his ministries will spin this one. Since he successfully raised $8 million back in 1987 after proclaiming that God would take his life if his followers didn't pony up, shouldn't he technically be immortal or something? Perhaps he'll return as a sparkly vampire. (...Oh wait, that's the Mormons)

If the people of RIA do not send me $5.13 , Anal's ghost says that 90 foot Jesus will send 203,147 more grizz reviewers here.

Colgate, anyone? Oral Roberts sounds like a dentist that your kids don't want to go to.....'Okay, Emily and Billy, do your homework, or your both going to see Dr. Roberts.' Oral Roberts also kind of sounds like it could be a porn star's name.

I never have liked Oral Roberts. He said that God would kill him if he didn't raise enough money. How dare him!! He made God sound evil. God isn't evil. Roberts should've been ashamed of himself.

I heard Comedy Central is going to do a tribute to him.

Give this guy some credit. Ask yourself how far you'd get in life with a name like Oral. You'd probably find yourself taking sanctuary in the nearest house of worship to avoid some serious beatings, which, of course, his parents deserve for naming him that. His full given name is Granville Oral Roberts, which should earn his parents several beatings.