The Chief Instigator
12/30/2009 5:51:00 PM
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:50:07 +1100, Don Kangurin <donkagurin@elcanguro.com> wrote:
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> "The Chief Instigator" <patrick@io.com> wrote in message
> news:slrnhjljmk.1uqf.patrick@eris.io.com...
>> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:27:10 -0600, Dr. Smartass, Troll Veterinarian
>> <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
>>> "J" <Jvisions@live.com> wrote in news:3d8ia7.f85.19.1@news.alt.net:
>>>
>>>> Subject: Mississippi declared most religious state
>>>
>>> IIRC they're also the least-educated.
>>>
>>> Funny how that works.
>>
>> Yep...and look what it's done to Oklahoma in the 44 years since I moved
>> away
>> from there. Oral Roberts can be blamed for my journey to atheism.
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> Who is/was Oral Roberts?
He was a Pentecostal preacher who got his church services on all three
channels in Tulsa, in the late 1950s/early '60s, and later founded Oral
Roberts University. At the age of five, seeing some of his antics on Sunday
morning made me wonder what he was trying to do, and that set me on the road
to questioning what was going on, and 44 years after moving down here from
Tulsa, I'm still an atheist.
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Patrick L. "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
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