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...YEAR is 1986. God is holding Oral Roberts for ransome. Unless God receives $8 million in unmarked bills in a plain brown paper bag with no coppers and no funny stuff, He swears to strike Oral Roberts down and legally change the names of Roberts` children to Aural, Nasal, and Anal. It is clear that God the terrorist has to be stopped. If not He might start hijacking airplanes...
...rescue operation begins. Stars arrive from all over the nation for a nationally televised benefit concert billed as "Oral Aid." The first act features Oral's fellow evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker of the PTL (Plenty of Terrific Limosines) Ministry. They arrive in separate rescue limos. Reporters rush to Jim's limosine when the chauffeur opens the car door to help starlet "Charo...
Joining the attacks was Bakker's friend Oral Roberts, who warned without mentioning Swaggart by name that "Satan has put something in your heart that you're better than anybody else." At a Tennessee nightclub Swaggart's cousin, Rock 'n' Roller Jerry Lee Lewis, leaped to the defense: "Jimmy Swaggart don't have to lie about nothing." After some tensions, Falwell agreed that Swaggart had "no designs...
...Falwell era at PTL began, the latest episode of the Oral Roberts story neared its conclusion. It was on Bakker's show that Roberts said he needed only $1.3 million to reach his death-preventing money goal by the end of March. That apparently inspired a gift for precisely that amount last week from Collins, owner of two Florida dog-racing tracks with $50 million last year in gambling proceeds. Evangelicals consider gambling a sin, and the racetrack connection upset some old-time Roberts supporters...
First it was Oral Roberts, announcing that God would take his life if backers did not send in millions. Then came Jim Bakker, admitting he paid heavy "blackmail" to cover up sexual sin. As fellow TV Stars Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Falwell joined the controversy, a bystander, Pat Robertson, stood to lose the most from the Evangelicals' questionable deeds. See RELIGION...