Another so-called 'church university' scandal

[Father Maurice Lester]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/ed...=1&oref=slogin


Firstly, any school named "Oral Roberts" must have nothing but short yellow buses in the parking lot... unless it is a place of higher learning for dental assistants.

No... this is another scam of a place built by an evangelical bilko artist who spent years duping not so bright Americans into giving him money so his family could live like kings while the old ladies who sent him their life savings ate dog food and shivered all winter.

...included accusations of a $39,000 shopping tab for Mr. Robert’s wife, Lindsay, at one store; a $29,411 senior trip to the Bahamas on the university jet for one of Mr. Roberts’s daughters; and a stable of horses for the Roberts children

It is this very kind of wretched excess that turns people off of organised religion and away from our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


The saddest part is that this is business as usual for all of these Baptist swindlers who only exist to leech off of folks looking for heavenly rewards and not yet members of The Roman Catholic Church.


Substitute 'Richard Roberts' with 'Pastor Al Piffle' (sic?) and it is the same sad story.



Bless you, my graceless grifters,
Father Mo

[Talitha]

Re: Another so-called 'church university' scandal

Oh dear, here he is again. Blaspheming against the one and only True Church in this God-forsaken world.
Listen up you Mary Worshipping-Ring Kissing-Dress wearing-Poop loving-bottom Bandit; Everyone in our Church knows that all money Lovingly donated into our Church gets spent wisely.
Every $ put in is a future Investment and we all have a money back guarantee of Salvation in the afterlife.
Sure, our Pastors have some expenses, but the work they do is for the benefit of every True Christian(tm) in the land. That includes purchasing Olympic sized Swimming Pools for their Mansion Houses. Mass baptism doesn't come cheap y'know!!

Just for your Balsphemy I am coming down hard and giving you 100 Infraction points!

[Bobby-Joe]

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Substitute 'Richard Roberts' with 'Pastor Al Piffle' (sic?) and it is the same sad story.

How about "Pope Benedict" for "Richard Roberts" and maybe we can chat about the Vatican Bank being run by the atheist Freemasons?

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

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The saddest part is that this is business as usual for all of these Baptist swindlers who only exist to leech off of folks looking for heavenly rewards

Oral Roberts and company are Pentecostals, not Baptists. Pentecostals aren't saved, so I am not the least bit surprised that their school is rocked by scandal.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[Father Maurice Lester]

Re: Another so-called 'church university' scandal

Oral Roberts and company are Pentecostals, not Baptists. Pentecostals aren't saved, so I am not the least bit surprised that their school is rocked by scandal.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

Pentecostals, Baptists... whatever. Either way it is another upstart cult directing unsuspecting souls away from the true path of Christ. Whether speaking in tongues or electrocuting themselves with live microphones and showy bathtubs it all amounts to the same thing.

The very idea that these "churches" spend lavishly to support an out of touch hierarchy is anathema to this old Padre. Jesus gave us his example of a spartan, simple lifestyle predicated on helping the poor through kindness and personal sacrifice.




Bless you, my unscrupulous usufructuary,
Father Mo

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

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Father Maurice Lester: Pentecostals, Baptists... whatever.
Whatever??? Pentecostals are crazy, almost as goofy as Catholics.

Baptists are not "upstarts". The first Christians were Baptists. Pope Constantine created the Catholic "Church" several hundred years later.

Father Maurice Lester: The very idea that these "churches" spend lavishly to support an out of touch hierarchy is anathema to this old Padre. Jesus gave us his example of a spartan, simple lifestyle predicated on helping the poor through kindness and personal sacrifice.
Right, and the Vatican is a perfect example of this spartan, simple lifestyle. Why doesn't the Pope sell the billions of dollars worth of loot stored in the Vatican and use the money to end poverty?

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[Father Maurice Lester]

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...Why doesn't the Pope sell the billions of dollars worth of loot stored in the Vatican and use the money to end poverty?

If the Pope, who is guided directly by Our Heavenly Father, felt it appropriate to sell some dusty old statues and musty Italian paintings he certainly would. But you, like so many others, are propagating a myth of wealth around our Church that defies logic.

The Pope, like so many Popes before him, actually wears hand me down clothes with few exceptions. Most of the Priests who live there suffer cramped accommodations to the point of having to use communal showers with the Swiss Guard and Altar-boy trainees.

Please remember that the Vatican itself, unlike your cow-fenced trailer park, is open to all people of all persuasion so that they may enjoy the modest artistic offerings to our Lord that so many Catholics have gladly made over the centuries.


The modest fees collected at The Vatican all go directly to helping put food on the tables of the impoverished across the planet. We are the biggest charitable and teaching organisation in the world and unlike your corrupt Pastors we avoid greed, avarice and addiction to worldly pleasures.


You will excuse me now but I have a couple of Botticelli's to re-frame before evening prayers in the garden.




Bless you, my absolute absquatulater,
Father Mo

[lord warrior]

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The Pope, like so many Popes before him, actually wears hand me down clothes with few exceptions. Most of the Priests who live there suffer cramped accommodations to the point of having to use communal showers with the Swiss Guard and Altar-boy trainees.

So the pope and other high ranking priest DO SHOWER WITH THE ALTER BOYS. And people are surprised that there lowly parish priest is "DOING" the alter boys. Well if the pope is doing it.

The very idea that these "churches" spend lavishly to support an out of touch hierarchy is anathema to this old Padre. Jesus gave us his example of a spartan, simple lifestyle predicated on helping the poor through kindness and personal sacrifice.

Yes, like the lowly Vatican, huge priest houses with there unlimited beer and alter boys for showering with. And if the church is so poor, how can the LA? archdiocese afford to pay the raped alter boys a BILLION dollar settlement for all the law suits? The catlick church has been whoring God for 2000 years, so what are you coming in here accusing the righteous pastors her of the same sins you have been doing all this time.

[Father Maurice Lester]

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...if the church is so poor, how can the LA? archdiocese afford to pay the raped alter boys a BILLION dollar settlement for all the law suits?

It is a little complex for someone of your limited intellectual capacity and social skills but I will try to explain.

The LAART programme (Legally Assisted Asset Relocation Therapy) is financed by a series of bond issues as The Church does not have that kind of cash on hand. The programme itself, although it does offer help for the one or two legitimate possible victims of malfeasance, actually addresses the needs of the countless victims of vile therapists who claim memory suppression in relation to certain touchy emotional aspects of former Altar-boys bent on demeaning The Church through falsehoods.

It is a very generous act of kindness on the part of The Church to offer so much to those whose memories have been twisted by wretched, self-serving voodoo types in the dubious fields of Psychiatry and Psychology.


We have been persecuted for two thousand years and as such have learned to turn the other cheek as Jesus taught and therefore are able to walk proudly through this world knowing the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and misinformation can never diminish our best efforts in the eyes of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.






Bless you, my Abstruse Abrogator,
Father Mo