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Topic: Religions > Atheism
User: "Bob"
Date: 11 Aug 2004 10:23:03 AM
Object: Bob Larson
Hey, anyone heard much on Bob Larson? Got any thing on him new?
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User: "JTEM"

Title: Re: Bob Larson 11 Aug 2004 06:34:19 PM
"Bob" <ace62usa@mFireNOJUNK.com> wrote

Hey, anyone heard much on Bob Larson? Got
any thing on him new?

I haven't listened to the man in years, maybe a decade or
more.
Being that he's a minister, my hope for him is that he
found God and renounced his past.
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User: "towelie"

Title: Re: Bob Larson 12 Aug 2004 08:36:36 AM
TV's JTEM wrote:

"Bob" <ace62usa@mFireNOJUNK.com> wrote

Hey, anyone heard much on Bob Larson? Got
any thing on him new?


I haven't listened to the man in years, maybe a decade or
more.

Being that he's a minister, my hope for him is that he
found God and renounced his past.

I worked for a call center that took calls for perhaps a hundred clients,
and one of them was Bob Larson "Hi, thank you for calling the Bob Larson
line. How much would you like to donate today?" I got maybe one call a
week at most for ol' Bob, most of them were fundie nutcases wanting
"spiritual advice." If the caller wasn't buying a product or making a
donation, we were directed to give the caller a phone number out of Colorado
(long distance for most of the country, while the donation line was a
toll-free 800 line.) I quit working there in late 2002, and I don't know if
he's even in business anymore, but that was the situation at that time.
--
If you don't like my lyrics you can press fast forward. - Jay-Z
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User: "JTEM"

Title: Re: Bob Larson 12 Aug 2004 01:00:06 PM
"towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote

I worked for a call center that took calls for perhaps
a hundred clients, and one of them was Bob Larson
"Hi, thank you for calling the Bob Larson line. How
much would you like to donate today?" I got maybe
one call a week at most for ol' Bob, most of them
were fundie nutcases wanting "spiritual advice."

I used to listen to him back in the late 1980s, purely for
the entertainment value. I was flipping through stations
one day when I come across this guy talking about
Mormons.
Well, "talking about" isn't very accurate, "Attacking"
is more like it. He was challenging the millions of
Mormon listeners -- all of whom apparently have
nothing better to do than to tune into the local Baptist
radio station -- to call him up and "Debate" him. He
literally was calling for Mormons to defend their
religious beliefs against him.
I was flabbergastered.
No, I wasn't "sheltered" growing up, I'd certainly been
exposed to intolerance in my life. But never so brazen,
never quite so smug, never caked in a self deluded
sense of "Good will".
Bigotry had always been without pretenses. The malice
was clear. Even if you had never heard the terms before,
the conentation was obvious. "*****" or "*****" or
"Heeb" were always accompanied by the appropriate
tone and/or facial expression, the malice undeniable.
Bob Larson was different though. He was... oh, how to
put it... he was "Evil Incarnate."
And, no, it wasn't just Bob Larson. His big "Surprise,"
his really big "Treat" one afternoon was a phone call
from Jerry Falwell. Bob Larson, for all his filth, did not
just represent himself. He was a welcome & well
respected member of the "Moral Majority."
Back in 1988 we still had a free press, and that free press
had no problems at all covering the up-coming Presidential
election. Anyhow, one day I sought an escape from the
election coverage and thought Bob Larson would offer an
appropriately mindless distraction.
Boy, was I wrong!
His topic that day -- and I'm paraphrasing here -- was the
media's anti-Christian bias, represented by ABC's (?)
treatment of George H.W. Bush.
The fact that there was no bias, that Bush had provoked
whatever "bad" exchange took place (which really wasn't
much of anything) didn't matter, Bush was the physical
embodiment of Christianity -- according to Bob Larson --
and to not kiss his ***** when he starts in on you is akin to
proclaiming a love for Satan.
Bob Larson introduced me to the poison that is America's
"Christian" Reich, and for that I will always be grateful.
However, I say that knowing full well that the world would
be a better place without him.
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