Dr. Gene Scott
While listening to the Bible Answer-Man broadcast (Fall 2003), I heard an audio clip of Dr. Gene Scott blaspheme God in a diatribe against a man who dared to leave a message to Dr. Scott's secretary that, "He (Dr. Gene Scott) call him back!" I could not believe my ears, he actually used the name of God with the word "Damn."
Dr. Gene Scott:
"And I have these attorneys who wanna reach me and they didn't wanna go through the channels, and they wanna call. The oldest trick in the world is call and leave a message, 'Call me back.' I don't call anybody back! There ain't nobody in this world that ever gets a call back from me! You don't call me and leave your God**** number and put the onus on me to run you down when you want to talk to me! You want to talk to me, you sit your little old fanny on a chair and you keep dialing till somebody on my staff tells you I got the message or tells you to go to hell!"
(Dr. Gene Scott, Audio clip "Bible Answer Man Show" Hank Hanegraaff, October 11, 2204)
"During the last few years, Scott has become more and more outrageous
and offensive, His language is crude, abusive and profane, clearly violating God's standards for Christians."
"Nuke 'em in the name of Jesus!" Scott ranted during the Gulf War,
boasting that he was the only minister urging President Bush to bomb Iraq.
"probably teach Hugh Hefner a thing or two" about sex and told
those who refused to send money to "vomit on yourself with your head up in
the air."
"There are so many horses' asses on television that I wanted to show the world what a whole horse looked like."
For non-givers, Scott warns: "If you get too smart with God, He might
let you live this next year without Him so you can see the difference."
Among the tunes Scott occasionally orders up is "Kill a Pissant for Jesus.
Scott was banned from competition for calling a judge a "prejudicial, incompetent nincompoop."
"They never stop!" Scott protested to loud applause. "These judgmental
asses!"
"Yet others feel strongly that Scott has no business preaching in a church. The Christian Research Institute, an international religious center based in Irvine that monitors controversial religious movements, goes so far as to advise Christians not to attend Scott's services.
During the last few years, Scott has become more and more outrageous and offensive," a CRI analysis concludes. "His language is crude, abusive and profane, clearly violating God's standards for Christians."
"Nowhere has Scott incurred more battle scars than in the courts. Since coming to Southern California, his church's far-flung enterprises have been tangled in more than 100 lawsuits. At times, Scott and his lawyers have drawn criticism for their litigation tactics. A federal judge in 1987 called a desperate bid by Scott to retain the Church of the Open Door a "reprehensible" abuse of the legal process. In 1990, in a lawsuit on behalf of the American Horse Show Assn., attorneys for the O'Melveny & Myers law firm accused Scott of hiding behind corporate fronts to overturn his suspension by the association."