Televangelist Rex Humbard dies

[Enlighten]

Rex Humbard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Humbard) died September 21st. Here is an article from the Trinity Foundation (http://www.trinityfi.org/press/donstewart.html) about him.


The Rev. Rex Humbard, a former itinerant preacher whose televangelism ministry once reached more parts of the globe than any other religious program, died Friday, a family spokeswoman said. He was 88.
...
He realized the potential of the new medium in the early 1950s and became known to millions by the 1970s. But financial overreaching eventually eroded his organization.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/22/humbard.ap/index.html

[grayman]

Lately there seems to be a lot of televangelists dying. Do you suppose it's really the Rapture in slow-motion?

[triadboy]

Do you suppose it's really the Rapture in slow-motion?

Rupture

[DOC]

Yes, Elvis used to watch Rex Humbard and was a big fan.

This website quotes Elvis as saying:

"I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God.…I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to. My voice is God's will, not mine."

http://www.thunderstruck.org/elvis.htm

Humbard spoke at Elvis's funeral

[Oubliette]

Lately there seems to be a lot of televangelists dying. Do you suppose it's really the Rapture in slow-motion?


:newlol

Of course! God created the world in six days but he's not rushing on this. :p

[Cleon]

Yes, Elvis used to watch Rex Humbard and was a big fan.

This website quotes Elvis as saying:

"I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God.…I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to. My voice is God's will, not mine."

http://www.thunderstruck.org/elvis.htm

Humbard spoke at Elvis's funeral

Er...So?

What's with this preoccupation with Elvis, DOC?

[slingblade]

Well, finally.




(yes, I watched him every Sunday, when I was growing up. He's one of those people I thought was long dead.)

[Wheezebucket]

Cool.

[Jabberwock]

wow I too thought he was long dead. I grew up in the Akron area and we always referred to his uncompleted tower (you could see a model of the completed thing in his Cathedral of Tomorrow buffet) as Rex's Erection.

[hgc]

Yes, Elvis used to watch Rex Humbard and was a big fan.


Elvis was a big fan of peanut butter and bologna sandwiches. Humbard was a money-grubbing phony. I think it's a shame you would besmirch Elvis' memory with this particular indiscretion. Really, DOC. A new low. Leave Elvis alone ... pleeeeeze.

TCB, Baby!

[DOC]

Elvis was a big fan of peanut butter and bologna sandwiches. Humbard was a money-grubbing phony. I think it's a shame you would besmirch Elvis' memory with this particular indiscretion. Really, DOC. A new low. Leave Elvis alone ... pleeeeeze.

It's ironic that this post comes from a person who does not respect Elvis's admiration for another man's work. And a man who presided over Elvis's funeral.

http://www.gospelgrace.com/falseprophets/rexhumbard/humbard.htm

[slingblade]

First date with my husband. We go to the jukebox, to pick a song. The first CD cover we both see is Elvis' Greatest Hits.

As if rehearsed, we said, as one: "Hell, no!"

I knew, at that moment, we were meant for one another.

[Zep]

Televangelist Rex Humbard dies

I feel sorry for his family.

And...

How did they know, anyway?

And...

Goodbye. Now, what else is on TV?

[hgc]

It's ironic that this post comes from a person who does not respect Elvis's admiration for another man's work. And a man who presided over Elvis's funeral.

http://www.gospelgrace.com/falseprophets/rexhumbard/humbard.htm


I can have a lot of admiration for Elvis without respecting some of his admirations. Afterall, he was a big fan of Richard Nixon.

Anyway, I happen to know that since the day Elvis shuffled off, he no longer held Humbard in any esteem whatsoever. That includes at his funeral.

[DOC]

Rex Humbard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Humbard) died September 21st. Here is an article from the Trinity Foundation (http://www.trinityfi.org/press/donstewart.html) about him.



http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/22/humbard.ap/index.html


Yes, I noticed that your CNN link said Humbard had some financial problems but no scandals.

Also, your other link is about someone named Don Stewart, not Rex Hummbard.

Enlighten, I also noticed you have created 25 threads in just over 3 months but have only posted 87 times. Any particular reason you don't like to elaborate in your threads?

[Taffer]

Enlighten, I also noticed you have created 25 threads in just over 3 months but have only posted 87 times. Any particular reason you don't like to elaborate in your threads?

:dl:

What's funny is that you think that's a good argument against his point. :rolleyes:

[Enlighten]

Yes, I noticed that your CNN link said Humbard had some financial problems but no scandals.

Also, your other link is about someone named Don Stewart, not Rex Hummbard.

Did you read the link beyond the title? If you did you might have came across, for example,

The News obtained copies of direct mail solicitations, all of which contained virtually identical language, but which are 'signed' by different evangelists including Robert Tilton, Rex Humbard, Frederick Eikerenkoetter (better known as 'Rev. Ike'), Don Stewart and W.V. Grant Jr. Based on the dates that they were received, the letters apparently first appeared under Mr. Ewing's signature."

http://www.trinityfi.org/press/donstewart.html

And I presume you know about the wonderful backgrounds of the other people mentioned in that sentence. Such as WV Grant's prison term...

Plus Rex was a board member of the PTL
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1DC143DF931A35756C0A9619482 60


Enlighten, I also noticed you have created 25 threads in just over 3 months but have only posted 87 times. Any particular reason you don't like to elaborate in your threads?

I don't feel the need to troll in threads and post my personal opinions, which have no bearing on the discussion. I also don't feel the need to personally attack people either.

Much of the material speaks for itself. As do your posts.

[DOC]

Originally Posted by DOC

Enlighten, I also noticed you have created 25 threads in just over 3 months but have only posted 87 times. Any particular reason you don't like to elaborate in your threads?


I don't feel the need to troll in threads and post my personal opinions, which have no bearing on the discussion.


So your stating that your concerned about the discussion but your actions say you could care less about discussing. Your actions also tell me your much more interested in putting up tags than discussing.

[wahrheit]

So stating that your concerned about the discussion but your actions say you could care less about discussing. Your actions also tell me your much more interested in putting up tags than discussing.

1. What's wrong with your grammar today?

2. Since when are you interested in discussion? I thought you were merely "putting information out there".

On topic: A televangelist died? Good riddance.

[fuelair]

Yes, Elvis used to watch Rex Humbard and was a big fan.

This website quotes Elvis as saying:

"I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God.…I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to. My voice is God's will, not mine."

http://www.thunderstruck.org/elvis.htm

Humbard spoke at Elvis's funeral
And.....?

[fuelair]

Yes, I noticed that your CNN link said Humbard had some financial problems but no scandals.

Also, your other link is about someone named Don Stewart, not Rex Hummbard.

Enlighten, I also noticed you have created 25 threads in just over 3 months but have only posted 87 times. Any particular reason you don't like to elaborate in your threads?
Pot/kettle DUK:D

[e-sabbath]

Elvis' favorite movie was Monty Python and the Holy Grail. My appreciation for him increased after I learned that.

That said, it's not surprising that people who learned to leverage Television for their causes (eg, not the pioneers, but the pioneers once broadcasting equipment became cheaper) are dying about ten years after the pioneers of television. Bout the right time.

[Enlighten]

Originally Posted by DOC
Any particular reason you don't like to elaborate in your threads?

Elaborate on what? What do you want to know? Perhaps you can elaborate on this question.


So your stating that your concerned about the discussion but your actions say you could care less about discussing. Your actions also tell me your much more interested in putting up tags than discussing.

Actually when I wrote I couldn't careless, I was referring to your opinions. You behavior/derail is a fine example of why you were just added to my ignore list.

Its very sad you don't have anything better to do on Thanksgiving.

[skeptic griggsy]

And look at all the attention Billy Boy will get when he croaks! His family carries on his appeal to the superstitious. Aren't they so happy?
But this happy naturalist maitains that reason saves, not a dead Galiean!

[hgc]

Elvis' favorite movie was Monty Python and the Holy Grail. My appreciation for him increased after I learned that.


Let me add that, having been to visit Graceland 3 times, Elvis' love for great automobiles has my everlasting respect.

Here's one of his collection Stutz Blackhawks:

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/54347477ccada784.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=9377)

If Humbard had nice cars too, I have no corresponding respect. Afterall, Elvis gave the world great music and a handful of iconic movies (I'll disregard the passel of crap movies). Humbard was a bloodsucking fraud, and bought his cars with the stolen pennies of blinkered masses.

[e-sabbath]

And Elvis based his stage presence on Captain Marvel Jr. Which was also pretty awesome.

[skeptic griggsy]

Yes, forever to Elvis and the Amazing Randi![lamberthml]

[skeptic griggsy]

And the lying D.James Kennedy and that purveyor of lies about Pres. Clinton, Jerry Falwell, have lately died. Who are taking the places of all these fools?
How much evil have they caused?
Billy Graham himself will soone be as he was before his birth- nothing.
Our evangel of humanistm, naturalism, rationalism and skepticismo spreads; non-theists now are around tne % of the population here. Our evangelists of enlightment are now out-spoken so much that we are the new atheists that religious liberals take to task for overthrowing respect for the superstition of religions. Mad Madelyn and neurotic Ayn Rand did not advance the movement much. They were light in argumenation.
The advanced theologians are on par with Falwell and company, even though they embrace evolution and such, for they make silly arguments also.

[Blackadder]

never heard of the guy (not elvis, the other one)


are his tv preachings on youtube? we didn't get such things in the netherlands. When I grew up (eighties) we still only had 2 tv channels, and no commercial television. The A-team on wednesday afternoon, that was about as far as american influence went for me. (oh and Dynasty)

[skeptic griggsy]

Ah, yes, the wonderful Team! That show had better morality than these stupid evangelists.
Graham and Sylvia Brown[e]- masters of gullibiltiy! Read Paul Kurtz's " The Transcendent Temptation," for information on nut jobs like Yeshua , Joseph Smith, paranormalists- the temptaions are the superstitions of the supernatural and the paranormal. Dr. Kurt's Center for Inquiry ranks with this one and that of Dawkins and the Internet Infidels library.
Reaganomics- faith-based. His ' stimullus" - big spending on the military spiked the economy, and Paul Volcker did quite a neat job also.

[skeptic griggsy]

[I :covereyes Oh, I forgot the hucksters Binny Hinn and Reverend Ike and just plain nuts,Joel Osteen and Rick Warren and Fox Noise's ex.Gov. Huckabee.
And what about errantists who misbehave? After all advanced theology is on par with primitive theology- rubbish.:jaw-dropp

[UnrepentantSinner]

never heard of the guy (not elvis, the other one)


are his tv preachings on youtube? we didn't get such things in the netherlands. When I grew up (eighties) we still only had 2 tv channels, and no commercial television. The A-team on wednesday afternoon, that was about as far as american influence went for me. (oh and Dynasty)

Which one? Humbard, Kennedy or Falwell?

Not sure about Humbard, but D. James Kennedy's smug mug is all over youtube as is Falwell.

[Tricky]

Lately there seems to be a lot of televangelists dying. Do you suppose it's really the Rapture in slow-motion?
Can we start a dead pool for who's next?

Dibs on Billy Graham.

[skeptic griggsy]

It must be about time for Oral Roberts to meet his maker, Mother Nature, only he won't ever know it! Falwell, Robertson and Sculler's sons have or will tak over. And Osteen has yet many moons to see before he croaks. Dobsons has stepped down for another to take his place.
More partakers of superstition are yet unborn, however, more Dawkins and such also are yet unborn. Our numbers are increasing

[JoeyDonuts]

It must be about time for Oral Roberts to meet his maker, Mother Nature, only he won't ever know it!

Hear, hear! They need to bulldoze that eyesore monstrosity called the City of Faith and put in something worthwhile. Like the family-owned amusement park that got kicked out of Expo Square here in Tulsa.

Anyway, Oral's high-living family might just be the end of him before Mama Nature gets his festering, hair-plugged ass.

[dafydd]

1. What's wrong with your grammar today?

2. Since when are you interested in discussion? I thought you were merely "putting information out there".

On topic: A televangelist died? Good riddance.

I agree. Another scumbag gone.