Fundamentalist preacher, Richard Roberts (son of the Pentecostal preacher, Oral Roberts, who claims to have seen a vision of a 900ft Jesus), is hoping to do business with the faithful in Glasgow on 6th May:
The hysteria is to be monitored by an oncology professor, Glasgow City Council’s Trading Standards Unit, and the National Secular Society who say they will be “challenging each and every unsubstantiated claim he makes”.A UK spokesman for Richard Roberts said: "I have been at services where the crippled have walked, the blind have seen and the deaf have heard.
"But there is no guarantee that everyone who attends will be cured, it just depends on that night."
He added: "Richard Roberts has a healing programme in Tulsa and probably over 100,000 people have been healed of cancer over 15 years.
"These are documented cases and our advice to sceptics is to come along and see."
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A spokeswoman for Destiny Church in Glasgow said they had total faith in Roberts as a man of probity and proven healing ability. She said: "Richard Roberts is not some wacky kind of preacher. I know when you watch some stuff on TV it can be a bit wacky but he is really sound.
"People who are seriously ill and are suffering from cancer should definitely come along."
More…
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/US-television-evangelist-tells-sick.5206581.jp
Definitely one to watch.
Interesting (if not unexpected) Information on Richard Roberts in that Scotsman article:
Hmm...But Roberts was forced to quit his lucrative post as president of an American college amid claims he abused his position and embarked on "Imelda Marcos-style" spending sprees with the institution's funds. The board of Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma passed a vote of no confidence in him after it was alleged he used college money to buy a fleet of expensive cars, keep horses, convert a study into a wardrobe for his wife's designer clothes, employed academics to do his children's homework and used the university jet to fly his daughter to the Caribbean.
So, about par for the course for an honest Christian preacher who will be happy to account for his deeds to his god when the time comes ...
You making the assumption he believes in a god, surely he was just going into the family business.Originally Posted by Trinoc
Religion is about power and prestige. Once you realise that, it all makes perfect sense.
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