# Oral Roberts dies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-roberts-dies/521406 "2009-12-15T21:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-roberts-dies/521406/61 "2009-12-17T03:52:01Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Oral, btw, is latin for _speaking_. As was mentioned earlier, in this case, Oral is an English variant of the Latin Aureus or Aurellius, meaning golden. And it’s not illegal to ask old people for money. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-roberts-dies/521406/62 "2009-12-17T04:03:55Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > And it’s not illegal to ask old people for money. No, but it is immoral to ask people living on fixed incomes or near poverty to send money so scumbags can live like kings and fly in private jets while pretending that they are the good and upright people. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-roberts-dies/521406/63 "2009-12-17T04:57:35Z")
> [@Cumberdale](#): > > No, but it is immoral to ask people living on fixed incomes or near poverty to send money so scumbags can live like kings and fly in private jets while pretending that they are the good and upright people. Maybe, but there’s a difference between “immoral” and “illegal”. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-roberts-dies/521406/64 "2009-12-17T05:52:04Z")
> [@Cumberdale](#): > > No, but it is immoral to ask people living on fixed incomes or near poverty to send money so scumbags can live like kings and fly in private jets while pretending that they are the good and upright people. Agreed. All politicians should hang. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-roberts-dies/521406/65 "2009-12-17T08:18:42Z")
Good riddance, fucker! ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-roberts-dies/521406/66 "2009-12-17T13:32:06Z")
A tribute to Oral’s brand of religion… > **[The gospel of inclusion](https://www.uuworld.org/articles/gospel-inclusion)** > > A black Pentecostal bishop embraces Universalism, befriends a Unitarian minister, and shakes up the largest congregation in the UUA. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-roberts-dies/521406/67 "2009-12-17T14:17:58Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Maybe, but there’s a difference between “immoral” and “illegal”. But fraud is illegal. What is the difference between what he and his ilk do and Enron? They are cut from the same filth. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-roberts-dies/521406/68 "2009-12-17T14:57:28Z")
I have a friend in Tennessee, whose aged grandmother lived alone, on a small pension. She would regularly send a check to OR Ministries. Picture this poor woman, bamboozled by the OR scam-eating peanut butter sandwiches, while OR was wearing $5000 Brioni suits!:smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-roberts-dies/521406.md?page=3)