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Oral Roberts leaves a complex legacy

Having a friend who was forced to go their by his parents, I can tell you that very few students probably go there by personal choice.

No one in America can be 'forced' to go to a university. Yes, your parents can pressure you, but you are always free to get a job and support yourself, making your own choices.
 
No one in America can be 'forced' to go to a university. Yes, your parents can pressure you, but you are always free to get a job and support yourself, making your own choices.

Well, duh - the point is, when you're in high school and making those decisions - there are a LOT of parents who do the deciding. Said friend eventually dropped out as a junior and paid his own way to get a degree at Indiana University.

But at 17, he couldn't have made that decision. Thus, he was basically forced by his parents to go there.

Of course, there are the types that would love the setting. There are many others who would feel like it was prison. God knows I could never go to a school like that.
 
While it is probably pointless, I'd like to interject a Christian perspective here.

Many of us (myself and my pastor, to name two) long considered Oral Roberts to be a person who was, at best, theologically dubious and overly flamboyant... or at worst, a embarassing con-man masquerading as a man of God.

God will judge him, not me... but I would hope that reasonable people will not generalize and assume that Oral Roberts' more questionable antics were/are representative of Christianity as a whole, or even of Evangelicals as a whole.

There are many thousands of Christian ministers who live simple humble lives, often serving as a pastor of a small church while working a regular full-time job to make ends meet for their family, and never appear on TV or make the news. They are not flamboyant and colorful, but when one of their members is sick they visit them in the hospital. They aren't famous or wealthy, but they are always there to comfort a family who has lost a loved one. They may never say a word about politics but always have a word of comfort for someone who needs it.

I regret that the many who serve faithfully and quietly are largely overlooked in favor of the flamboyant and controversial.

I don't argue this fact; in fact, I support it. HOWEVER, coming from a family that are rigid in their christian beliefs (to each his own, because I beleive differently), I often hear these religous persons pigeon hole others. Sad, but true. Ignorance has ruled the land for many years.
 
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