Twenty-three years after he first threatened to do so, God finally called home Oral Roberts.
Evangelist Oral Roberts, founder of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University, died Tuesday from complications of pneumonia in Newport Beach, California, his spokeswoman said. He was 91.
Roberts did some good stuff like building a University and a medical research center. But he was also part of the late 80’s Televangelist Comedy Hour, as the side show to Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart and Peter Popoff. When his name comes up, I can’t help but think of Bloom County‘s “Fundamentally Oral Bill” series of strips that did a fantastic job of skewering the fundamentalism of the time.
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