Reply #13: Another just general expose of evangelists is

[TlalocW]

James Randi's "The Faith Healers." That book just pisses me off every time I read it. Oral isn't given too much space in the book unfortunately, but it's enough. One of the interesting things mentioned was that when Oral was doing tent revivals back in the 40s or 50s, movies shot in different cities of Oral healing people showed the same woman (performer) going on stage to get healed. There was also something about claims that Oral had raised the dead (as if parking isn't bad enough).

A regular in the arcade that I used to work at last year for some extra Xmas money told me that he had gone to ORU and was disillusioned with it. He said in the mail room, there are a lot of workers whose only assignment is to open up the letters with donations, grab the money and cash in them, and toss out the prayer requests. He still believes in certain weird things like he claimed he saw a woman healed of cataracts at some bigwig's private home - apparently they popped right out of the woman's eyes and gelatinized. I do my best to demonstrate basic stage magical principles to people like him in order for them to see how they operate and will rail against scum like Oral any chance I get.

TlalocW