Posted on 02/22/2005 12:12:53 PM PST by MOX
For a year, I was convinced that Gene was just Wally George with a permanent. Or a wig.
I remember Wally as the announcer/sidekick on the "Sam Yorty Show". Sam was the ex-mayor of Los Angeles, and his show was the most surreal thing on tv, next to Joe Pyne.
Seems to me that Wally had a Dutch Boy cut back then, but I could be wrong.
I never heard of this guy but I don't find the actions of your son and his friends humorous.
My husband was stupid enough to support this guy for many years.....
My favorite Gene Scott moment was when he was asking for monay and he said flat-out, this money was going to be used to buy stuff for himself-- boats, houses, horses, whatever, then he disgustedly cut to a 10 minute video clip of he and about five bikini-clad women charging around in an expensive cigarette boat.
Priceless.
But I still could never make heads or tails of his bizarre philosphy and rantings... still, I'd always take my thumb off the channel button for at least a few seconds when I scanned across his show.
Antinomianism
Perhaps the greatest heresy of all time, Antinomianism preaches that souls are saved only by God's grace... and so there's absolutely no reason to refrain from every imaginable vice and sin.
Antinomianism was around for a long time before someone came up with the word. Many gnostic sects of early Christianity staked out positions on one or the other extreme pole of behavior. Either they believed in asceticism, the denial of all fleshly pleasures, or utter licentiousness, in which sex, gluttony and all manner of dissolute behavior were not only permitted but encouraged.
R.I.P. Gene. Your sermons blessed me when I was a young believer.
Scott was a huckster.
Yes, and back then it was very, very good teaching. I still remember it well. His exposition on the book of Esther and the 'such-a-timers' still resonates in my spirit.
First Hunter S. Thompson, now Dr. Gene Scott. This is not a good week for weirdos.
I used to listen to him on shortwave when I was in high school. He reminded of what Bishop Fulton Sheen might have become if he'd dropped acid and developed permanent egomania.
"The wicked lover crept...."
I will happily enjoy a cigar and STOMP A PISSANT FER JESUS. Y'all.
LOL! I'm sure Gene got a lot of those. But it was probably the voided $10,000 checks that were really irritating. Those would keep him well stocked in cigars, whiskey, and food for his horses. The guy was pretty smart, though (in addition to being entertaining).
Floyd....you hit it on the head again. I was not a member of his church nor did I watch him much. But you could learn more about the Bible watching him for two hours than most people learn from their "Mainstream" churches in a lifetime.
Thankyou for posting this.
I used to listen to him on 6.090 MHZ from time to time. Didn't know he croaked though untill tonight.
I was waiting for somone to come out and say that. He was the PT Barnum of the 20th century.
The first time I watched him I was in the hospital after major knee surgery. I couldn't read because of the morophine and I couldn't sleep because of the pain so I resorted to watching him late at night.
PS The morophine made him more entertaining.
Even without morphine, the guy really was entertaining.
I agree.
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