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I mentioned Dr. Gene Scott yesterday. This guy used to be on television 24/7. I watched him for years. I think he actually taught the bible for eleven minutes during that entire span. The rest was soliciting money. Werner Herzog did a documentary about him called GOD'S ANGRY MAN. The featured clip gets really good about 4 minutes in. From there on -- Wow! This is not the Chabad telethon anymore.
Don't make me resort to this particular sales technique. But I'm warning you -- I'm already in the suit and I have a choir standing by. Sign up for my Twitter before God STRIKES YOU DOWN!! Thank you.
Hi Ken,
ReplyDeletecolor me surprised. I don't come in for a couple of months and I come back to you pimping for twitter followers.
The last post, the VERY last post I read of yours sir, was the one talking about how stupid twitter was.
*sigh* I'm still resisting.
My standing comment quoted from my blog sidebar:
The twitter conundrum for me: Yes, if I joined twitter more people would be able to laugh at my stuff, but if I stopped to tweet every time I thought of something funny I'd never get anything done.
Vader's plan to take over our lives is working. Once he joins forces with HULU we're doomed.
good luck on the goal, the prison population being behind you should help a lot.
tee hee hee
Karen :0)
This is all being done in fun. Something goofy to do for weekend posts. Don't worry. I will never tweet my breakfast.
ReplyDeleteGene Scott must be something of an in-joke to every insomniac with a television in the late 1980's--I'd tune in just to see him puffing away on one of his big cigars and daring the viewers NOT to send in a pledge. Sometimes, I think, he actually gave something resembling a sermon--on a chalkboard covered with squiggles--it never made any sense. Fond memories, believe it or not.
ReplyDeleteThanks to looking for Gene Scott on YouTube I found the farting preacher.
ReplyDeleteHis wife, who is about 30 years younger than he was, has picked up the standard for him, and is as big a wack job as he was. Though she doen't constantly beg for money (it's more subliminal with her, as part of the message she preaches), she leaves no doubt as to who she thinks is the world's greatest biblical scholar and interpreter of "the word of God" -- namely her. I expect that someday soon, she'll lead a congregation of her followers up Mt. Lee to the Hollywood sign to await the return of The Messiah -- or maybe Michael Jackson, or even Elvis (whichever one of them shows up first)...
ReplyDeleteDon't worry. I will never tweet my breakfast.
ReplyDeleteDepends on the size of the hangover. ;)
WV: peunesi - Reaction to the Loch Ness monster's body odor.
DO you guys know that Melissa Scott is a former porn star turned preacher? lol Gene Scott was the Jerry Buss & Hugh Heffner of teleevangelists. The guy was a pimp with the ladies! hahaha
ReplyDeleteoh good ken,
ReplyDeleteI didn't want to have to take the macaroni statue I made of you down from the pedestal.
I'll pledge $10,000 if that quartet will shut the hell up.
ReplyDeleteDr. Gene Scott is actually an interesting if not totally corrupt voice of God. He is a graduate of Stanford with a Drs. Degree in theology. He sure wins the award for longevity on TV, even after death. Not even Oral Roberts, who could heal you, if you sent enough money, could come back from the grave. My favorite tho was Dr. O. L. Jaggers (don't think he got his doctorate from Stanford). "All you starchy collars say Eye!"
ReplyDeleteI think that "tweet my breakfast" should become a new national catchphrase, as in, "Wow, the smell of that garbage dump is enough to make me tweet my breakfast."
ReplyDeleteTweet your breakfast, Ken. I know how you like to stick to one breakfast food for a while... shit, I know way too much about you, already!! Ha!
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I think it was Robin Williams who had Gene Scott say "I want to tell you about the connections between Jesus and Spider-Man" which sums it up. He was post-midnight viewing here when I had a second-shift job, and was always diverting (I remember when the LA Library was on fire and all he did was show films of that shot from his church).
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Gene Scott is the only preacher that I knew of that used the word "Hell" out of context.
ReplyDeleteI recall him and his penchant for funny hats; his opening theme at one time had him wearing a fireman's helmet. When I first saw him, I wondered what a biker was doing talking about the Bible. His lectures in front of a white or a blackboard started in the Bible and ended up with him talking in fron of something that looked like the original sleeve of the Rolling Stones "Beggar's Banquet". And wait until you hear him sing. I believe the word is "oy".
As a Christian, folks like him amuse me in one way, but depress me in another. I suppose that it is akin to meeting someone who is ready to pop a blood vessel screaming at you about why "I Married Dora" demands a DVD reissue.
I haven't watched Melissa Scott at great length, so I can't defend or vilify her, but if she got saved, hey, that's great. I pray she uses her platform correctly. If she was an adult film star, she isn't any longer, which is a healthier choice, to say the least. No one may have twisted her arm to do what she allegedly did, but I'm not a guy to remember what the Lord forgets.
It's sad that there are certain labels that society won't allow you to get past, such as "ex-con", or "former porn star" or "Swift Boat" (that one takes your military record of meritorious service and makes you out a coward).
Small note to Tom Quigley: according to an article in Marie Claire, Melissa Scott was 38 years younger than Gene Scott.
WV: bilating: the act of one person messing with another's schedule.
Bran Phillips said:
ReplyDelete"Small note to Tom Quigley: according to an article in Marie Claire, Melissa Scott was 38 years younger than Gene Scott.
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I was estimating their age difference.... Ol' Gene really must have been some expert on the Bible, then -- Older than Noah, hornier than Solomon, and probably damn near broke every one of the Ten Commandments...
I worked in Master Control at an indy station in Memphis in 1985. Dr. Scott was the last hour of our broadcast day. At the time, he was deep into the significance of the pyramids and using their measurements to predict the end times.
ReplyDeleteI'll never forget the night one of his cameramen stepped on a camera cable. Dr. Scott stopped his sermon mid-sentence to bless the fellow out for disregarding God's television equipment. Wow.
When I lived in SF everyone who had 70 channels of cable thought Dr. Gene Scott was HILARIOUS. I think I received about 7 channels of broadcast tv, and having Dr. Gene Scott monopolize one of them didn't amuse me in the slightest.
ReplyDeleteThough I did love his trick of wearing two pairs of glasses and whipping one pair off, Caruso style, only to reveal the second pair underneath.
I remember channel surfing late one night, and the loony man was on trying to get money. He actually ran it telethon style where he promised to cut back to programming once he got a certain amount of money.
ReplyDeleteThe programming? Was it insightful consideration of the book of Job?
Nope.
Footage of a local stripper (quite possibly Melissa Scott) dancing on a dance pole. I s#!t you not.
What's sad is he was/is the owner of the Million Dollar Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles across from the Historic Bradbury Building.
HELLO THERE MY NAME IS NEAL ADAMS AND I WAS AT FAITH CENTER BEFORE DR. SCOTT CAME TO TOWN IN 1972 SORRY I CAN NOT SAY ANYTHING BUT GOOD THINGS
ReplyDeleteABOUT THE MAN.HE CAME IN 1975
THE START OF THE STORY WAS RKO GAVE FAITH CENTER A TV STATION IN HART FORT CON. THAT WAS LOSING MONEY FOR OVER 20 YEARS SO IT WAS A UNION STATION AND RKO GAVE IT TO FAITH CENTER CHURCH INC FOR A TAX CREDIT.
AND THE PASTOR RAY SHOCK SPENT CHURCH SAVING BOND MONEY IN SUPPORT OF THE TV STATION IN THE TUNE OF 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS WITH OUT TELLING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
IN THE HOPES THE STATION WOULD TURN AROUND HE WAS A GOOD MAN WHO
WAS OLD AND DID WRONG IN THE EYES OF THE LORD. BUT THE HISTORY OF THE STATION WAS ALWAYS AT A LOSS IN THE HARTFORD MARKET IT WAS COSTING OVER 50 THOUSAND A MONTH FOR JUST THIS STATION AIR TIME AND THE OTHER COST WAS ALWAYS HIGH
AND PASTOR KEEP ON SENDING MONEY TO THE PIT. DR. SCOTT CAME TO THE
AID OF THE FAILING CHURCH IN 1975
AND WAS ELECTED TO BE ITS PASTOR
THE CHURCH HAD A FM STATION KHOF 99.5 IN LOS ANGELES AMD TV KHOF-30
AND ONE IN SAN FRANSISCO 38 I THINK AND THE HARTFORD STATION
I AM DOING THIS FROM MEMORY WELL
THAT BEING SAID MOST PEOPLE THINK PASTOR RAY SHOCK SPENT THE MONEY ON HIMSELF THAT IS NOT THE CASE.
BUT DR. GENE SCOTT SET THINGS IN ORDER THEY ALSO WERE SELLING OFF THE STATIONS ONE RADIO STATION IN BAKERSFIELD WAS SOLD THE MONTH BEFORE HE CAME WELL HE CAME IN AND CLEANED HOUSE AND TELLING THE CONGRATION
WHAT WE FACED AND HE WAS NOT GOING TO PASTOR THE CHURCH HE HAD A CLOSE FRIEND WHO WAS GOING TO DO THE PREACHING
BUT HE WAS GOING TO LEAVE HIS WIFE AND COME SO DOC SCOTT STEPPED IN AT THE DIRECTION OF THE HOLLY SPIRIT. HE TOLD THE LORD HE WAS NOT ABLE TO PASTOR A CHURCH BECAUSE HE WAS DE FORCED THAT WAS THE START OF WESTSCOTT CHRISTIAN CENTER AND FAITH CENTER BECOMING ONE.CHURCH IN 1975 HE IS A MAN OF FLESH AND BLOOD WHO CAME AND STAYED SORRY I WAS THERE AT THE START AND FIND HIS SERVICE TO THE KINGDOM OF JESUS IN TUNE WITH JESUS MY LORD BLESSING TO YOU
BUT LOOK BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH PLEASE NEAL ADAMS KHOF-609
How do we find more teachings?
DeleteWhat a bunch of lame brains !
ReplyDeleteDr. Scott was awesome .. you just needed to listen for more than 5 minutes, but that's way beyond most people's attention span.
No matter what anyone says he was the coolest and I miss him every freakin' day !!
What I really bet is that you watched Doc Scott for eleven minutes during a fund raiser and stopped. Of course I also attended the church where he preached. Your observation of him proves how little you actually saw of him. Doc Scott had more time spent in front of a live TV camera than any other human yet alive and filling that much time took a great deal of creativity.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your blog I hope that the people who read it spend more than than you obviously did with Doc Scott.
Doc was great! I would rather watch him than anything else on tv today. I think I will raise up my beer and say "cheers" to old Doc for all the great times! Salute!
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I found teachings of Dr. Scott on the internet about 2 years back. We had had access to his teaching for years - via television - by living in Los Angeles, but never had the inspiration to LISTEN. I also remember the glasses, the monkeys, the telethons... I also never listened; just laughed! Get a brain. This man was an incredibly intelligent human being who devoted his life to teaching other's about the Bible; you won't find a better Bible scholar anywhere - even his many enemies will give him that! I think you guys all "missed the point." The man's teaching dug into the Bible in a way no-one else with this sort of audience ever has, and was broadcast 24/7 all over the country and later the world. That takes money. He also had orphanages in South America that he supported through donations and visited regularly; he didn't exploit that and there's probably much more we don't know about as far as charity to children, the poor, etc. is concerned. I don't really care how eccentric he was or that he was a human being with faults, all I care is that he has taught me more than I learned in a life-time in 2 years, and if you will look past the funny glasses and the celebrity you will find a well-spring of information that will bring the Bible and God alive to you. Thank goodness for Dr. Scott and also Jan and Paul Crouch, who introduced me to what Jesus really did when I was only able to deal with the pablum and not the meat of it all. I realize they're also targets of many, but their hearts I believe have always been in the right place and "listn to this" - God used them to bring thousands of people to Himself. God uses whom he pleases; he doesn't have to check with your first! The day will come - as it does to every human being - that all there will be is yourself and your Creator as you exit this world; no "twitter" pals or anyone else will go on THAT trip with you. Think about it. God would like you to learn, no matter how, about himself. He's real, He loves you, and He will be the only one there in control the day you die. THAT's reality.
ReplyDeleteYes, Amen to that. I really would love to find more of Scott's teachings either on DVD, on-line, or wherever.
ReplyDeleteWhat I loved about Dr. Gene is that he broke down the Scriptures into all of the ancient, original languages of the Bible which gives us more direct and accurate translations. On any given day , of any given Bible passage, it would not be un-common to get the Hebrew,Aramaic,Ethiopian, Syriac,Greek or Arabic meaning of one Scripture. That always helped me to bring that passage to a clearer Light instead of the 'typical, loosley translated, Engish versions that constantly flood the airwaves and concordance 'Bibles' that have gotten very far away from their original meanings. Dr. Scott always had at least 5, 6, or 7 ancient languages to compare and cross reference the same Scripture allowing us pertinent 'Keys' into unlocking the true meanings of that Scripture. Thank G-D for people like Gene who have studied and have had the tenacity to do what he had to do in order to teach the Scriptures and to have massivley broadcasted them over the airwaves. Eternally Grateful
I've been searching the scriptures for over 50 years and I honestly can't recall another preacher/teacher that could come even close to Dr. Scotts' level of understanding and exploiting Gods' word. He was a voice for God in this wilderness. We are worse off without him. God will raise up another teacher in His time that can and will continue to carry the torch like Gene did.
ReplyDeleteI have spend my life studying subjects from science to Art. I don't have any conviction to proofing any field of subjective knowledge.I discovered Dr.Gene Scott During my research and studies on science and mystery. My first experience listening to him was filled with fear as I notice many negative internet posting from people which were targeted on some behavior of his which would have easily been mistaken if one were to take just a glance. Despite my doubt I couldn't stop listening to him for he made sense. I now have more then 45 GB of live audio teaching of his and have been continuously listening for 3 year everyday, that... not only have my faith grown matured but also on other wide range in the fields of knowledge. My personal description about Dr.Gene "He is a University". Now I am so familiar to his ideas and teaching that I can trace many good writers who secretly copies him :). If you are reading this... please buy not few people hate allegation against Dr. gene Scott (They maybe right base on personal issues they may have experienced with Dr.Gene Scott, but not what he teaches on the pit), try to test and see his teaching for your self. Dr. Gene Scott popular quote "you don't have to park your brain outside the church when you enter" "heaven is filled with intelligent people" or something like that :)Enjoy!!!
ReplyDeleteThe big question is, what have you learned?
ReplyDeleteIf you cant describe anything differing from any other Xian faith then you all are really praising a prosperity cult.
That's Scott's prosperity not yours.
Gene Scott was a teacher for the teachers. I agree with the one that can hear his teaching (almost word for word) flowing through some Big Name teachers who cared more to fit the acceptable religious mold. Dr. Gene Scott - especially in his later years - accomplished what he set out to do, which was present a University (Graduate School) weekly lecture on the Bible. His fascination with the Scriptures, his collection of sacred scriptures and his mastery of Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic languages all combined into a depth of teaching that required an alert and attentive listening to even begin to grasp what so easily rolled out of his mouth. He taught in what he called the Gestault method.. meaning he would present an entire topic (not breaking down into bite size bits like most teachers), but he would present the entire topic, over and over, coming at it from all angles in the Scripture until there came an ahaha moment, and you grasped the entire teaching in its wholeness .. and you knew it was the truth, because Dr. Scott would have shown it to you maybe five or six times, or as many times as the same truth was presented in different situations throughout the bible. He had what he termed his 7 "Nitro" lectures based on what he called the "repeatables of God".. saying if God repeated Himself, Dr. Scott believed God really intended for us to 'get it'.. so every year he would repeat each of those 7 Nitro-Lectures, always presenting them first and foremost to himself because he needed them, and then to us. As far as his outward behaviors -- I struggled with some of his personal behaviors -- and yet, the Lord once challenged that thinking in me.. asking if I preferred a pastor who put up a front and hid behind the facade and didn't teach the depth of Truth that just flowed out of Doc -- or did I prefer a pastor who was just as he was -- teaching Grace and trusting God to change him from the inside out .. right in front of all of us who loved him and learned from him. I could most easily say, I would prefer Dr. Scott in his honesty.. for he was truly a man after God's own heart. Did he have an achilles heal.. I say yes, and he was ultimately taken down by it. That was so sad.. but then again the Word that he preached really has taken root in an army of faithers who learned mere belief was not faith.. but required action, based on that belief, sustained by confidence in the God who created it all by His Word. I grew to love the old fiesty reformer and still believe he was the greatest bible teacher the world has yet seen... and I love to study the writings of the Fathers of our Faith. Religious people couldn't get past the behaviors.. which of course was exactly why Dr. Scott acted that way. :)
ReplyDeleteRip good and faithful servant Fullerton/Anaheim appreciated your Liberty in Christ 🙏
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