the buzz log
After invoking God to his defense against allegations of money laundering and all-around scandalous behavior, Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts took the next step: talking to Larry King.
In the week since three former professors filed a lawsuit against the son of televangelist Oral Roberts, the buzz on "oral roberts university" is up nearly 1,500% and among our top 5,000 searches. Within the state of Oklahoma, the topic has leapt into the top 300, outpacing inquiries for "oklahoma sooners football" or "inspirational quotes."
While the talk show appearance was the first public exchange of "he said-they said-God said," allusions to acts too scurrilous to mention may swell the tale to Biblical proportions. The "richard roberts lawsuit" includes allegations ranging from vaguely sordid to merely dumbfounding. Illegal campaign contributions are the core charge, but multiple accusations of spending university money on 11 remodeling projects or making employees do his daughter's homework are also quite buzzworthy.
Notoriety hasn't just dwelt on "richard roberts scandal" or "richard roberts ministries." His missus' reported extravagance and quirky habits like text-messaging "underage males" in the wee morning hours cast a Search glow upon "lindsay roberts." The alleged sins of the son has also visited upon the father, as people seek out what "oral roberts" has said about the issue. However they testify, the Buzz will likely be enraptured by this unfolding scandal.
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Posted by vikinglady2004 | Thu, October 11, 2007, 7:11 am PDT
It is very surprising to me that there is so much intolerance of religion and government being seen as a part of each other. Look how many similarities have come up in both sectors or bodies that, in their own ways, have a "governing grip" on the people who believe in them! I am not perfect, far from it, but I think that both the religious community and the government of our great country better watch who they start to throw rocks at, when alot of them live in glass houses themselves! I am in no way saying this as a threat to anyone or any organization and don't intend it to be taken that way, but when you give your trust, your life, your belief to something that has been founded on a firm foundation (or so you have been told) and so many different problems, untruths, and sometimes unbelievable facts surface, it kinda makes you wonder! I know there is something better for us, something we are all working to accomplish, but being given information from religious groups, and government groups that affect the morality code that we have been raised to believe in, it makes it very hard to cope with alot of situations arising from lack of foundations, firm foundations, that we can once again build our trust, our beliefs, and hopefully our morals on. Our children are killing other children, this is not a good sign for either side of the coin.
Something must be done, before things cannot be changed, before it is too late for all of us.
Thank you for your time.
Posted by happ1nezz2000 | Thu, October 11, 2007, 9:16 pm PDT
Does no one get the fact that if someone tells you to send money to them so you can get into whatever "heaven" you believe in it has to be a scam? Religion has just become a commerce for alot of people. I know there are alot of elderly people on a fixed income who give what they can and sometimes what they can't just because they have "faith" in these bloodsuckers. When they live in a home that costs million of dollars, drive cars that cost as much as a small home how can people NOT see what they are about? To me this is the worst sort of rape. Taking peoples faith and using it to their advantage? I am sick and tired of any and all that use "GOD" not only as an outlet for bad behavior, but as an excuse for it. Telling people that "GOD" spoke to them and that excuses what they did is in line with the suicide bombers. Neither one seems plausible to me. Give some money and go to heaven, or blow up a few people and get virgins. To me it's a state of affairs that has degenerated into not only the almighty dollar, but the quest to screw anyone and everyone to get it. All in the name of a deity. I wonder...
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