Dr. Gene Scott Dead at 75
Pasadena Star-News - News First the good doctor Hunter S. Thompson and now the crazed out whacked in the head enigmatic mega broadcaster doctor Gene Scott is gone.
For those of you who were never bored enough to actually sit through any of Dr. Scott's television, and that is probably most of you, he was a sight to see. Dr. Scott was a megalomaniac who would smoke cigars, talk about UFOs and the Lost Tribe, berate his audience for not sending enough money in, and come up with complex graphical biblical teaching on a big white dry erase board. When he got tired of talking he'd run video loops of his horses running around or other similar nonesense.
Dr. Scott was the pastor of the Los Angeles University Cathedral but he was so much more than this. In the past few decades most televangelists have been easily identifiable as cheap hucksters and hypocrites with very simple business models that prey on the weak -- folks like Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swaggart. Dr. Scott preyed on the weak as well but he was never as easy to figure out and remained a constant enigma to those who might run across him while channel surfing UHF back before cable or satellite tv. He was a Stanford educated preacher who definitely had more than a few screws loose.
Dr. Scott was very direct in his request for money. He oftentimes would punish his viewers by refusing to talk until a certain amount of money was sent in. It was comedic. He would say the most outrageous things in his bully like demands for people to give up their money. You were definitely going to hell if you didn't give and your place in heaven was largely a determination of how much you gave.
Rotten.com has a pretty good bio on the doctor that includes some classic quotes:
"A skinflint may get to Heaven, but what awaits him are a rusty old halo, a skinny old cloud, and a robe so worn it scratches. First-class salvation costs money."
"I want 300 people to give $1,000 by June 30 to humiliate Satan's efforts to destroy us," Dr. Scott commanded in a Web site missive. "I also want 700 to commit to $10,000 by Christmas. I've been trying to lighten the staff load for five years! I won't take responsibility for things I have no assurance I'll ever see!"
Dr. Scott railed against the FCC, told jokes, played the saxophone and showed off video footage of him sitting poolside with bikini clad women along with his horses. His program was broadcast in eight languages and in 180 countries. He broadcast 24 hours a day throughout the world and more recently had set up a live internet stream. I'm not quite sure why he was never able to crack cable or satellite tv more significantly but he was the master of the crazy obscure OTA programming.
Dr. Scott was a character. Though the world may indeed be a better place without him one can't help but chuckle at his antics and weird behavior that was the sideshow along the way as he ripped off his flock.
posted by Thomas Hawk at 9:24 AM
194 Comments:
Gene Scott was an evil bastard who took advantage of the weak and stupid in this world....may he rot for eternity in hell
Dr. Scott fought prostate cancer since 2000 that had metastasized throughout his body, he finally died February 21, 2005 after much pain. He is survived by his wife Melissa Pastore-Scott aka Barbi Bridges, whom he married in 2000. Mrs. Scott, whose background is in the adult entertainment industry, is now the pastor of Dr. Scott's church. You can catch her preaching every Sunday at 11 a.m. from Dr. Scott's website.
Gene Scott was the quintessential abusive father living out his free-for-all verbal assaults and directives to all the willing, daddy-seeking unfortunates who took him seriously.
He was a prick and proud of it, but never achieved the "real" fame he selfrighteously demanded that he unconditionally deserved, nor the academic parity he so often paraded with his "...I have a PhD. from Stanford" claim that he reinforced at every possible opportunity in a futile attempt to elevate his credibility when the rhetoric got just a bit dry.
"Forever acknowledge and worship my every idiosyncrasy," is what he demanded of his non-academically oriented followers as long as they kept writing those checks. But in the end, he proved himself to be just a bad, public-access level celebrity perpetually pissed that the elite didn't see in him the genius that only HE saw in himself.
To the rest of us, he was immensely entertaining because he was great TV. All in all though, he was just a hick huckster from Oroville trying unsuccessfully to play in Hollywood's hipper sandbox, but never wanted to play with the other kids because his true social ineptness would too easily expose his inner greed-driven weakness.
Very well written and very well put.
Luke 8:10 "Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God; but to others in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they might not understand."
Most of you do not see and do not understand.
The remarks left by some of the posters here are not appreciated by those of us who knew him well, as members of his congregation. Gene Scott was the ablest teacher of the Word of God in this century and a great treasure was taken out of the world when God took him home-- in no pain, he had a series of strokes and passed within a week, while the other intermittent besetting health problems he had were all in remission. Dr. Gene Scott had a real diploma from Stanford U., a doctorate in philosophies of education, and I have read his doctoral dissertation on Reinhold Niebuhr on the nature of sin. Only ignoramuses spout off nonsense about his doctorate like I've seen posted here. It's for real. Another thing -- Gene never took a penny from anyone he didn't teach and made sure of that by instructing all that he taught NOT to give unless HE taught them. Any verbal browbeating was designed to DRIVE AWAY the weakminded, not bully them into giving. There isn't an organization in the entire world whose members could ever be threatened into giving by the threat to withhold teaching God's Word which is just as likely to discomfit as it is to enthrall. Only people who truly love God and His word would feel that pressure -- the rest of the world would never be affected by it, and no one who is mentally weak can be a faither and a giver solely in response to teaching about God, with the only reward being eternal and granted by the Father in heaven.
Well what can I say, the person from his congregation said it all. I think , having followed him for years that he had a gift. The unfortunate thing here is that some of his behavior was not a good witness of what he was preaching. The bible states that a teacher is held to a harder standard". He did not like that..he made some comments that were wrong as we all do. However, having said that, I think its a reproach to the Lord to have his wife who was a PORN star that to my knowledge has not repented or explained to her church and was still running one of her businesses till 2003, and they have been married since 2000.
You know that there was much talk about his lifestyle,his prode and his arrogance...let me ask you is that fruit of the spirit? I mean God can use any of us..and will use the things that we cannot understand to confound the wise...but God is not Mocked..nor his word. I think its horrible that his church is having to go whta they are going thru now, and I think may people are not exactly happy with Melissa preaching and taking over....and really what background does she have X PORN star??? Then there was talk about her father and his dealings in Canada. Church, let us make sure we are not deceived.....
He had geat taste in women. Melissa is smokin' hot!
I found Gene Scott a helluvalot more interesting when first coming upon his show back in 1982. The arrival of his Barbie Doll and her Las Vegas Review [couple of girlfriends] sometime around the early to mid 1990's left me non-plussed, to say the least. I couldn't quite figure out what all the bicycle riding was about, but with the gradual weeding out of the chorus line, and the narrowing down to the one, Ms. Melissa, complete with the filming of his proposal to her, albeit from a safe distance and surrounded by a shady glen, I gradually came to understand. I can't say that I was a believer, but I sure was an observer, over time. His show helped fill the time gap during which the 11:00 Nightly News could be avoided in favor of a little jazzed-up, dressed-down, old-time religion with a twist of modern logic. I originally thought his church was an outreach program for the inhabitants of Skid Row in downtown L.A., but eventually changed my mind while catching the equestrian segments that began showing up during his pledge drives. Plus, the fact that he played great musical sound tracks for the background on his videos, which were actually set in beautiful scenes of ranchlands and California's countryside, which over time, I began to recognize was most likely his spread of property, on which those earlier bicycle soirees had been filmed. But, what I think I most vividly remember were his verbal castigations of his staff and some of their on-sight terminations of employment. This lead me to the supposition that after acquiring a taste for Havana Creams, equestrian trails and properties, and maybe a few Las Vegas showgirls, you'd probably have a tendency to want to protect those high-end accoutrements, and vested interests. No more need for the small-time, low-budget, slow-witted-reflexed hangers-on from the lean years. No sirree.
Only techno-professionals need apply in the 21st Century. Yet, I was truly sorry to hear that prostate CA had been diagnosed. Because, despite all the major acquisitions he had made for his church, his beloved library with every bible, and religious artifact he was able to purchase in the name of educating his congregation in the life of Christ and all languages of the gospels, the old United Artists building housing his University Ministry, those lives in his congregation he was able to turn around for the better, his beautiful spread of California ranchland...he was still unable to save his own life and therefore ended up succumbing to his own mortality. For that, he will be sorely missed. I feel very sorry for the people who've depended upon him for their own salvation. Here was a person who finally seemed to be coming into his own. He was watching his dreams finally come to fruition.
As far as Melissa is concerned, she should get a voice coach, as well as a drama coach, the first so that she may be able to sustain singing on-key because she definitely has a tendency to go flat at least once in each line. Try cupping your hand over your good ear while singing, Melissa, so you can hear yourself when your voice goes off-key. And, secondly to be able to project a more convincing personna on-stage. And for God's sake, an image specialist, who'll style her image with a little more attention toward depth of character and credibility. You're in the big leagues now, and if you're going to play ball, you better know how to play it hard. Also, a course in economics, both Micro and Macro, might help you understand the mechanizations involved in the successful operation of the empire that's just been left to you.
Best wishes and good luck.
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I like to say that I like Melissa, hope that she will keep on preaching and be one day be a great tacher.
Dr. Gene Scott died in Glendale Adventist Hospital from complications
of end stage prostate adenocarcinoma.
First diagnosed in October 2000 when
it was small and confined to the prostate, it was known to be histologically the most aggressive
form. Gene Scott declined removal
of his prostate at that time although
it carried a high liklihood of ten
year survival with prostatectomy.
Based on lowered post biopsy PSA levels, masked by a hormone laced
herbal preparation, Gene Scott claimed
to have been healed by faith. He
stopped having check ups.
Four years later, after five months
of persistent nausea, Gene Scott's
check up found Grade IV metastatic prostate cancer. His kidneys were blocked with cancer that had also
spread to his bladder, ureter and
bone. Too weak for full therapy,
and no longer a surgical candidate,
Gene Scott succumbed to advancing
cancer unresponsive to end state
efforts to slow the progression.
He developed blood clots, cardiac
failure and infections in his
lungs and urinary systems.
Strokes were the final events putting
him into a terminal coma. Multiple
organ failure less to life support
and finally expiration.
His widow, Melissa Scott, the former
Melissa Pastore, succeeded him as the
only pastor of the Los Angeles University Cathedral and church which
is run as a corporation without members.
Melissa Scott maintains that Gene Scott was healed of the first cancer and that
his breath was taken away and he was healed "over there."
Dr. Gene Scott and his surviving wife, Pastor Melissa Scott have preyed on the weak and gullible, holding their eternal life hostage for money, free servitude, and blind obedience.
A cornerstone to the Scott brand of brainwashing is isolation, by occupying follower's minds with guilt driven
24 hour a day watching of their teachings, tithes and offerings of 30% of income, and tithing time of 17 hours a week volunteering for their ministry enterprises.
Their messages are heavily laden with servitude of their pastor, touted as the only one looking after the souls of the faithful. Dr and Mrs Scott promote idolizing and serving them, holding themselves out as spiritually superior while humiliating their faithful. Double standards, deceit, and hypocrisy abound as they pay lip service to the Word. It's a well oiled dictatorship
that bans discussions and questions.
A big AMEN! to that last letter.
I do not know what God will do to Gene Scott in heaven. I know that none of us are perfect, and the ones that think they are were the ones killing people with perfection. Gene was always to lib for thaT. God is a God of a second chance. I was ready to give up but one night late I cought Gene scott on my 10 foot dish in 1982, I changed my mind about giving up that week. I would go to church and get beat to death and pounded by the preacher, then I would listen to Gene and recover and remeber what Jesus did on the cross for me. I did not have to live some pole vault religion were they keep raising the bar on me. God is a God of mercy and maybe he will forgive Gene Scott, I know what ever God does to Gene for giving poor sinners hope it will be just. I never sent he much money I only sent him money twice and it was not much money at all. I remeber one knight late he said I don't know about you people you got to be crazy sending me money, there must be somthing wrong with you if you are sending me money as crazy as I am. Then on the other hand he challanged you if you were tought in the word then what is it worth . For some it may have saved there lives and they may have sent in a lot of money who knows God knows. Love and life is the key. I did not need to be told I was a sinner I knew that. Gene Scott opened the word at times and showed me how to have faith in God the one he has been talking to since Febuary and the one you will be with soon for eternity and that's a long time. I think we are all crazy but some of us have a gift that helps some of us cope with life, and try to learn to love one another. Gene scott loved the sinner and he was one himself trying to find his way, the money was not the issue, now God may deal with that. The issue is did he help people live and did he love his Lord and the Lords people and I think he showed me he did. God will kill Mallissa to and call her up there to talk with her as God will with all of us. Judge nothing before it's time it wil be judged very soon for all of us in coparision to eternity and that's where we are all heading.Some of us will be cast into hell while others of us will go into heaven. It not so much what we did on earth is did we seek God with all of our minds soul and body, did we accept Jesus as our lord and savior, and did we love every one sinner and saint. I think Gene may have done that but I don't know God may cast him to hell cause God has the finale word on that.
"Jesus's first miracle was to turn water into wine to keep the party going" quote Dr. Gene Scott...brilliant don't you think?
I only just found Dr Scott a few weeks ago, and just found out he was dead. It made me sad. I have been uplifted and taught by him, even tho he is gone.
He has filled in many blanks for me. I don't care what the religious society thinks or thought about him. He was REAL. Most of them are fake and he exposed that.
As for Melissa, well, she's not a great singer, but I don't think she was there to put on a "show" like all those on the religious church shows. She is just as forgiven as you, by the same standard God uses for all. One of Jesus' most beloved followers was a former hooker.
God will have a people, called out from among the religious Babylon, and those who cannot hear or see will always be out front saying the things you have read as here because it is the nature of the beast within them.
Overcomers will keep marching on, no matter what. That is what Gene preached, and that is what we do.
Right on, Gene! Thanks.
hello, this is coming from a girl who's native country is in EuroAsia in country of Armenia.
my exposure to Christianity is from the source of Television. In my view, the Scott Ministry is more closely a relative to Reality T.V. in America than any other programming currently playing in the educational category. The Scott Ministry cultivates a reality that fits rightly with beliefs of Modern Day Society and is intellectual completely competent with the currently developing technological systems. In short, Dr. Scott listeners are gifted, provided that they have an ear to listen and an open heart, with the possibilities exceeding the expectations of both what t.v has to offer and what any preacher has ever done or taught the word of the Bible to its students. Dr. Scott has also maintained integrity as well as upgraded his Philosophical System, especially in the last 5 years with singer Melissa Scott as the leading lady. Unlike, other ministries on TBN which cum on as a freak show and extreme hair & make-up and fake hair, causing eye damage, Melissa is tasteful in her appearance. Although you may say that is a subjective opinion, you nevertheless have your choice of believing what is true and correct at all times. Regardless of the reservations you might have in observance of my righteous thought patterns, know this, the tone of some of the commentators on this page, is not appreciated because it does not sound like it is coming out from a non-judgemental place of the mind. I admit I do not find myself drawn to any of this articulate gobble gobble since it does not give me the least freedom to ask: you mean to tell me you want me to bet on it?? P.S. Don't steal my words. Thank you. gina
I actually called the "voices of faith" and asked why pastor Melissa Scott wasn't teaching.I guess she has caved in to the critics.I'm in tears.I support her and I know she got my message.She has gotten a hugh load to do,that's for sure.She is so beautiful and her mannerisms are so lovingly expressive.Can't you see the gift that Dr.Scott has given us to
ponder,admire and share with?I was so thrilled to hear her speak after "Doc"
passed.She had always only sang.Her tributes to her husband were so real and natural,even with the old videos.I know some of the insides of the ministry and as my daddy said to me,"Son,you can't live your whole life on B.S.",so tell me how did this ministry survive?Try by truth.
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He was a sleezeball who's business dealings were a reproach to everything that was Christian. He cheated everybody he could, taking advantage of their trust.
Porn-Star Pastors! That will get em to go to Church. Praise the Lord and pass the pussy!
Everyone has an opinion. The only one that really counts is God's. God will be the one to judge not any of you or me. God's Word is Forever settled in Heaven.
Pastor Melissa Scott (televangelist), third wife and widow of Gene Scott, effectively owns "church" assets. Her haughty strut belies humility preached to the little people. She continues the legacy of Gene Scott to abuse
trusting believers into giving their worldly belongings and time to them. She is a proven pornographer and liar.
No one who has issues with the Scotts' use of people would argue that God will be the Judge of us all. However, the abuse of the trust placed in pastors is appropriate food for comment by those who have experienced or observed the tragedies and torn lives.
Pastor Melissa Scott (televangelist),Barbie Bridges, siren to Eugene Scott shrinks from flock she bans & scatters. Shrewlike wailing, boring read sermons & flogging the staggering congregation hardly leads the march to Christ. Melissa Pastore Scott gets a 6 mo. cease & desist.
Uneducated, filled with dead man's bones, Pastore Melissa Scott, adult model, hoards Gene Scott's teachings from trusting viewers who paid for them to be made back in the day. Rotten 2" tapes salvaged by Point 360 will save a few, by when Jesus comes.
Melissa Scott aka Barbie Bridges is on her last spread legs. Catch her act at Kings House Two in
Glendale. Sunday 9/11, for the
walls to crumble at the all
day BAPDISMAL CULT FREAK SHOW.
Don't worry she won't put her
hands on anybody. No rubber,
no Barbie dunk. Call for
reservations 1/800-338-3030.
Gene Scott taught Melissa Pastore Scott well. Never share the prayer or compassion baton with any other cause but yourself. The flock might
move their feet where their eyes
are directed. Tough luck Katrina
victims. Say your own prayers.
Lie in your valleys of weeping.
Cash cow Melissa Scott won't send
a prayer or dime. You are not worth the skinflint Scotts' time.
The evil anti Christ has returned just as Dr. Scott prophecized, coming from a Catholic background
from the pulpit, with heritage from the north. It's Melissa Scott, raised a Roman Catholic,
with Russian Jew roots in northern
Arab states. Look at that nose
and bow down.
Tonight was another rolicking good fun unband rehearsal at LAUC. Mrs. Scott wants some new songs that don't sound as religious. Grinning and picking made us get up dancing. Mrs Scott was ROFLAHAO!
See the clip on live broadcast festival 9/4 at www.drgenescott.com about 7:30 pm.
Aired on KDOC in Orange Cty.
Pastor is trying hard to cheer up the long faces & keep minds out of
the valleys.
Wow, all the hate towards a woman who did nothing but love a man, serve him, and is now trying to continue the only 'real' truth about Jesus Christ out there--that we are saved by faith in Christ, nothing more or less.
The day of the Lord is coming, along with a day every one of your knees will bow and tongues will confess Jesus is Lord.
That's not all the woman, Melissa Scott aka Barbie Bridges did and still does. She swears from the pulpit making a mockery of it, calls 25 year faithful servants of Dr. Scott " sh*t, barnacles and dregs", bans meek trusting congregants from the church they knew as their spiritual home for trivial mistakes and shortcomings, and doesn't make her staff the meager wages they earn slaving 12 hours a day doing demeaning tasks to make her life nice.
The woman is a b*tch to other women, especially attractive intelligent ones who are respected and well-liked by the men.
Melissa Scott has the audacity to haughtily lambast women for gaining weight and looking after their children, with total disregard of her own imperfections.
Lies, lies . ... and more lies,
roll off the tongue of Pastor Melissa Scott, Barbie Bridges.
Her deceit of her congregation
and inner circle continue.
Often, she doesn't even show up
anymore. She skips her own
avowed language lessons on Thursday evenings, cuts it short on Sunday morning and on Sun.
evening live festival, and
ditches band rehearsal Saturday
nights. Must have a hot date.
Yet she blasts and bans those
who don't keep their commitment
without ever missing for any
reason except contagious sickness.
God will deal with her
and is entering in. She's a
disgrace.
I have always been intrigued by Gene Scott and sometimes ended up watching the whole sermon when I happened upon it. I appreciated the language lessons and attention to detail. I appreciate the same in Melissa Scott. It's hard to believe she picked up that much in just 5 years of marriage? I think she is forgiven for her past.
I haven't had such a good laugh as I did today reading the comments about the "Doc" and the "Whore of Babylon". I have just found out about her background and could not be less surprised. I happened to catch the show where he said that he was tested for cancer, prayed, and then was retested to show that God had cured his prostate. "Boy, are you in for a surprise in a few years" I thought to myself. It's only fitting that the one thing that he centered his life around for the past few years did him in.
Pastor Melissa Scott, Barbie Bridges, spews hypocrisy & doublestandards for the little people from her golden bubble. Just in time for Halloween, the shrew blasts her loyal for not
giving ENOUGH. Her money grubbing tirades coerce followers to neglect their families & life commitments to make more for her.
This is a comment. Only God judges.
robert newman, you're right, overuse of Gene Scott's pecker finally did him in! God does have
a sense of humor.
Miss Priss Meliss a's holier than thou nun act is a hoot! Dig the
gospel song she wrote on that old
stripper tune playing in her mind.
Pastor Melissa Scott (televangelist) requires her churchgoers to obey her and pay homage to her teachings above those of Christ. She demands free
service of at least 10 hours a week, without breaks, meals or
cell phones allowed. She has not broken stride in her haughty strut of Gene's God stuff. The mean taskmaster has banned those who don't give her today what she wants regardless of their circumstance or prior devotion.
The Father of Lies is tapping Melissa's shoulder, has gotten her undivided attention as she with holds and dismantles Gene Scott's teachings one by one. Eventually the only remains will be empty buildings, empty red seats and coffers, with piles of money lining Melissa's pockets.
Melissa Scott is mean to her staff and volunteers, demanding they wait on her hand and foot and give her standing ovations. She has banned receiving any negative comments.
She is the former Melissa Pastore and adult entertainment model/actress/producer under the stage name of Barbie Bridges. Her photos can be found on adult sites including modelslover.com and manhunters.com. Her tintillating acting thrills viewers in Picture Perfect. NoTell Hotel and other films with Asia Carrera showcase Barbie Bridges production and directing talent. Melissa Scott was a founding partner of Barbie Bridges Ent, of Hollywood. Dr. Scott referred to her as "baby" and boasting she is the "only perfected saint" in his thirty year ministry. Melissa Scott continues Gene Scott's legacy of raising funds and demanding free work in the name of God.
Dr. Scott was an old foolish horndog.
Gene Scott was a greedy old horndog,found receptable Melissa Scott,Barbie Bridges,& partied
himself to an early grave.
Pastor Melissa Scott (televangelist), Barbie Bridges,
lines her pockets with assets
poor churchgoers gave their lives
to. Her BBE Ent sex videos are
sold on the net.Tuck your money
in her thong & get saved.
Mean Melissa Scott,former Melissa Pastore admitted her porn career as adult model/actress/producer Barbie Bridges. Her photos can be found at suze.net, modelslover.com and manhunters.com. Melissa's tintillating acting thrills viewers in Picture Perfect. NoTell Hotel and other films with Asia Carrera showcase Barbie Bridges production and directing talent. Melissa Scott Barbie Bridges Ent, with her first hubby Paul Pastore, in N. Hollywood. Dr. Scott referred to her as "baby" and boasting she is the "only perfected saint" in his 30 year ministry. Melissa Scott continues Gene Scott's legacy of raising funds and demanding free work in the name of God. Praise Melissa!
I just found out today, 11-03-05 that Gene Scott bit the dust on 2-21-05. What saddens me is the eight months I could have been rejoicing over this event.
I am writing a book about God's charlatan. I worked as a musician inside the organization, and my experience nearly cost me my life. In a round-about way, I found God, but it was not through Scott's teachings! My story is briefly described by Glenn Bunning in his L.A. Times article, "The Shock Jock of Televangism." I've realized how superficial organized Christianity really is...how far-removed from Universal Truth, as it plods its way into each follower's bank account. How ironic that Scott should croak in the same hospital where I was treated for injuries received in a beating by Joe Henry Shackelford (his chief engineer) and Larry James Dudley (his TV time buyer and local hitman) in 1985.
Furthermore, I will chronicle, in great detail, the history of Faith Center, Wescott Christian Center, the TV and radio network, the ranches/farms, real estate scams, and all the violence and corruption occured off-camera. I am quite certain that the reader will view Scott's "teachings" as a smokescreen for his perverted ways.
Those who have died and miraculously come back describe traveling through a tunnel before seeing a bright light. I am convinced Scott's "tunnel" was a sewer! In light of this mountebank's passing, I mourn only the fact that he won't be able to file his "frivolous lawsuit" against me for libel, defamation, and slander.
I pity those who think they know all there is to know about this religious pimp, who thought nothing of ruining the lives of those who disagreed with him or witnessed the corruption firsthand. He was skillful, yes, at quoting scripture, and at brainwashing. When the brainwashing did not take root, he used his thugs. Glendale, CA police records detail a long history of violence at Faith Center Church. Scott once quoted (and this was directed to me over the airwaves): "If you're gonna take on God's man, you'd better do your homework!" I regret the fact that the "teacher" is not around to grade my paper!
Funny, some of the 'experts' on this string seem to be 'experts 'in surfing porn sites,fully knowledgeable of Ms Scott's co-stars. Yeah, I could have an intelligent conversation with that!! Gene Scott was no more phoney,money hungry or full of "$#!t", than any other 'televangelist'. I take it strictly as entertainment. Gene was the king of entertainment, up there with PBS. If so many are upset or didn't agree with him, then why study him so much? Mainly because you doubt your own faith or favorite telepreacher. Honestly , I'd rather see his congregation watching and shootin' their $$$ wads on supporting him, than I would 98% or the blatantly greedy big hair,heavy make up crowd deemed obvioulsy as Gene's competition.
I studied religion,East & West,even taught Sunday school as a younger man. Get what you can from the bible and make up your own mind. Forget the money mongers that just want big diamonds ,big hair and big gawdy "churches". Hell, just so I'm not offending anybody, I watch a lot of those kinds of shows and almost feel guilty not sending any cash in for the great laughs. So don't feel left out if you think I'm defending Gene Scott too much... all of those Bible waving phoneys are the same, Gene ,in my opinion, was just the best. Ernest Angely as a very close second. TBN uses too much hairspray. Maybe that's how they nail their audiences..the fumes!
Gene Scott was the only televangelist to gain my respect because he didn't hide a thing. At least you saw where the money was going. Bless him for having a great time and entertaining us.
Here's classic Gene;
http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/godstuff/genescott.html
Pastor Melissa Scott is desperately trying to keep the old man's GAME alive. First by trying to replace him as teacher of the WORD. Now, mainly relying on reminiscing and reruns of the old man to keep the message alive and the money flowing. ( BTW, is it true that offerings are drying up fast as the pool of suckers wise up to her GAME ? )
Gene Scott
(Filed: 26/02/2005)
Gene Scott, the American television evangelist who has died aged 75, offered his followers all the advantages of Christianity with none of the inconveniences, and thus became immensely rich.
Scott's followers were assured that they did not have to go to church on Sunday and that such foibles as homosexuality, adultery, abortion, profanity and drinking were just fine. "I don't ask you to change," he told his congregation. "I take you as you are." He had little time for the conventional pieties. "You ever meet Christians?" he asked. "You wish you could shove a pipe in their mouth. Anything to shut them up."
To qualify as a member of his church, the main requirement was a valid credit card, Scott's aim apparently being to make it richer than the Vatican. "A skinflint may get to heaven," he admitted, "but what awaits him are a rusty old halo, a skinny old cloud, and a robe so worn it scratches. First-class salvation costs money."
Anyone requiring salvation had to hand over 10 per cent of their income. This was a bare minimum. "I want 300 people to give $1,000 by June 30 to humiliate Satan's efforts to destroy us," read a recent message on his website. "I also want 700 to commit to $10,000 by Christmas." He once excomminucated the entire congregation for not giving enough. Those who did not respond to his barked instruction "Get on the telephone!" were told to "vomit on yourself with your head up in the air."
His fund-raising efforts were spectacularly successful. Individual donations from his 15,000-strong congregation at the Los Angeles University Cathedral (housed in a Spanish baroque-style former cinema), and from the estimated 50,000 contributors reached through his global broadcasting empire, were said to average $350 a month. In 1980 Werner Herzog made Scott the subject of a documentary, God's Angry Man, which showed the preacher raising several hundred thousand dollars during a television show lasting half an hour.
Scott's appeal lay in his genius as an entertainer. Buccaneering, shaggy-haired and bearded under a bandana or flamboyant hat, he was by turns unpredictable, outrageous, funny and inspired, but always compelling. Fat cigar in hand, his face contorted with rage, he would mix scripture with profanity-laden monologues about the state of the world ("Nuke 'em in the name of Jesus!" he cried during the Gulf War), punctuated with demands for more money.
No gimmick was neglected. At church services a rock band would belt out such hymns of praise as "Kill a Pissant for Jesus." His television shows would sometimes feature "Scott's Bunnies", a bevy of female followers in thong bikinis. (He felt he could "probably teach Hugh Hefner a thing or two" about sex.) When he found himself under investigation by the authorities for alleged fraud, he assembled a band of wind-up toy monkeys, then proceeded to smash them to pieces on television with a baseball bat.
Scott enjoyed a lifestyle that included a chauffeured limousine, a mansion in Pasadena, 24-hour bodyguards, several ranches and a stable of more than 300 thoroughbred horses. It would be easy to dismiss him as a charlatan, yet he also spent lavishly on charity. When the Los Angeles Central Library was damaged by fire, he organised a telethon that raised $2 million, and there were many other examples of well-judged philanthropy. In consequence he acquired powerful friends who were generous with their testimonials.
During show-downs with the authorities, Scott seldom hesitated to drop a few hefty names to aid his cause. When, during the 1970s, the California Attorney General's office launched an investigation into Scott's church (and several others) following allegations of financial malpractice, the investigation was dropped after the state legislature passed a law barring prosecution of civil fraud against tax-exempt religious organisations.
The son of a travelling preacher, Eugene Scott was born on August 14 1929, at Buhl, Idaho. When he was six, his mother gave birth to premature twins, one of whom died within hours. The following month, Gene began having convulsions and his mother saw a stairway come down from heaven: "Two angels walked down and they stopped in front of Gene," she recalled later. "I said, 'Oh no, Lord, you can't take Gene!' and they just went around him and picked the baby up." The surviving twin died but Gene was saved; it was clear that he had been spared for some purpose. Shortly afterwards, the family moved to Gridley in northern California where Gene's father took over as pastor of an Assemblies of God church after the previous incumbent crucified himself.
Young Gene was an exceptional student. "Do you know you have a genius for a son?" asked a teacher on his school report. He ended up at Stanford University, where he took a doctorate on the works of the protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in 1957. Despite having no formal training in theology, Scott then taught briefly at a Midwestern Bible college, helped Oral Roberts to establish his university in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and joined his father's church, the Assemblies of God movement, where he soon established himself as a brilliant preacher and fund-raiser.
But in 1970, Scott renounced his membership of the denomination to launch his own ministry. Five years later he was invited to take over the Faith Center Church at Glendale, California, an ailing evangelical enterprise which boasted four broadcasting stations and a $3.5 million debt. He agreed on condition the church leaders gave him carte blanche to do what he wanted. To his surprise, they accepted, and he went on to build his huge evangelical empire.
Scott had several run-ins with the authorities. In 1983 the Federal Communications Commission stripped the church of three broadcast stations after he refused to hand over financial records. Later he frustrated attempts to scrutinise the church's finances by instructing contributors to sign pledge slips stating that he could spend the money however he pleased.
When Scott was diagnosed with cancer, he decided to "give God the first shot" before resorting to conventional medicine. By the time it became clear that the Almighty had stayed his hand, it was too late. He died on February 21, and is survived by his third wife, Melissa.
Pastor Melissa Pastore Scott, televangelist, aka Barbie Bridges adult entertainer removes the priceless bible collection with no word of where it is or when it will be returned to LAUC cathedral. Many believe Melissa Scott is in the process of liquidating them and church assets for her own gain.
Years ago during each of Dr. Scott's televised Sunday sermons ( delayed broadcast on KDOC )the cameras would pan the audience and there would always be in the front row a group of several young women. All sitting very quietly and obediently. Was sweet Melissa picked from this " stable " and I don't mean horse stable ? BTW, on some of the Sunday evening KDOC programming Melissa, without make-up, looks terrible. Looks like she's been on a bender all week. Partying with the old man's money or what ?
Come and listen to a story about a man named Eugene
Poor old preacher always acting mean
Then one day while puffin a cigar
He thought to himself,hey Im a preaching superstar
Self appointed that is, Selfrighteous,Egomaniacil
Well the next thing ya know old Genes a millionaire
Robbing his congregation just seemed downright more
than fair
Said Californy is the place I oughta be
So he married a porn actress and moved to Beverly
Hills that is
Swimmin pools,movie stars
Well now its time to say goodbye to Gene and all his
kin
And they would like to thank you folks for all the
money you've sent in.
Your all invited back again to this locality
To have a heapin help of his nasty'ole personality
Charlitin that is,Watch a while,Send your money in
Ya all get on the phone now ya hear
BOOK OF HOAKSTERS
Chapter:7 Verse:11
And see my prophet Dr.Loveless Scott
For I have given unto him
ladies,limos,learjets,luxury
mansions,show horses,
cuban cigars
with which to puff himself up
and many fools to magnify himself
(YE SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS
NOT THEIR SUITS
YE SHALL KNOW THEY ARE MY DISIPLES BY
THE LOVE THEY HAVE ONE FOR ANOTHER)
I think he's going to spend eternity in A--holes Anonymous meetings.Hi I'm eUGENE and I'm the worlds biggest AHOLE!!
Pastor Melissa Scott,Barbie Bridges,widow of Gene Scott threatens damnation to critics who hear God's word from other pastors.She carries on Eugene Scott intimidation and coercion of money and free labor for her hippocratic empire that enriches her. Some speculate that her sex model and dancer mentality is simply transferred to a world wide God show to fleece the flock.
Last week her attorney Patricia Glaser who has threatened critical congregants from the pulpit publicly defended her partner Terry Christensen who was indicted on federal felony charges for paying the infamous P.I. Pellicano to wire tap and eavesdrop on opposing parties in civil litigation.
Indictments are hitting close to home to the church Gene Scott built that his widow Pastor Melissa Scott, Barbie Bridges, rules with an iron fist. The long time law firm hired to attack opponents of the church is linked to illegal detective tactics. Last week, the managing partner Terry Christensen was indicted by a grand jury on federal charges related to secret wiretapping of personal telephones and listening in on private conversations in
order to gain an advantage in lawsuits. Patricia Glaser, a senior partner in the firm,
board member and counsel to Melissa Scott's church, told reporters that her partner is
innocent; however, authorities responded that Patricia Glaser has not seen their evidence. No doubt she, and the world will see it.
It's a year of evil with Pastor Melissa Scott-Barbie Bridges running with the ball Gene Scott made. The porn model turned clergy spurns women in the church while hurling curses and innuendo. She squeezes the souls and wallets of her poor and meek. Dubbed PMS, she strips self dignity from Gene Scott's committed, making them her slaves to grovel for her favor.
Now her attorney's indicted on wiretapping crimes that are rumored to possibly extend to some deemed church enemies.
DID YOU SEE THIS? Pastor Melissa Scott (televangelist), Dr. Gene Scott's 3rd wife, owns and heads the LA University Cathedral. She is adult actress Barbie Bridges, see http://www.rainbow galleries.com/gals/barbie_bridges/indexg1.html, manhunters.com and http://www.sportyone.com/servlets/firebolt?object=7&letter=2. Melissa Scott has announced sales of real property, Dr. Scott's limos on e-bay, and removal of bibles from Gene Scott's prize collection worth millions. Pastor Melissa Scott has publicly announced that the church and the copyrights to Dr. Gene Scott's recorded teachings belong to her and there are no church members. The lawfirm partner of Melissa Scott's lawyer, Terry Christensen, was reported in early February 2006, by the Los Angeles Times to have been indicted on federal charges of hiring illegal wiretaps. The church 800 phone lines are answered "Dr. Scott's line" and the website states that viewers can call or write to Dr. Scott, despite his death a year ago. His passing was reported in the L.A. Times, announced by Mrs. Scott on her network broadcast February 21, 2005. See www.drgenescott.com. which still advertises Dr. Gene Scott and excludes a biography of Pastor Melissa Scott (televangelist).
The Queen of Mean cracks a whip.
Blind Rick Boggs feels his way to
brown nose Barbie Bridges shredded wheat tea bag. What's a body to do?
"Show me a man of the cloth who owns more than one suit and I'll show you a fraud."
Lenny Bruce
I only disagreed with a fiew small (to me) details of Dr. Scott's message. His bippybappity behavior merely demonstrated that the old religious ideas of judging peiople by appearance and behavior no longer apply. His widow is doing a great job.
Several people have posted negative remarks about the continued use of Dr. Scott's website and name since his death. The name Dr. Gene Scott is a registered trademark owned by the church - similar to L. Ron Hubbard's trademarked name as author of current works by Scientology.
Mrs. Pastor Melissa Scott was at San Quentin mens prison last week. Our neighbor's husband is in there. They have a little girl who idolizes her dad. Our whole town says he isn't guilty of the crime he was convicted of. There is new evidence we pray will change his sentence, but it takes time. His attorneys are working on it.
The little girl runs to the mail box every day hoping for a letter from her dad. He tells her how beautiful she is and how he keeps the pictures she draws by his bed side. He tells her to mind her mom and say her prayers. The father tells her to do good in school.
The wife was telling us how upset their Families of Prisoners group is over Melissa Scott's visit. She learned Mrs. Melissa Scott was that porn star Barbie Bridges. She watched Melissa Scott on TV the next day. What Pastor Melissa Scott sad about her husband being the worst of the worst broke her heart. She wept for hours. It's a good thing the daughter didn't see Pastor Melissa Scott making fun of her daddy's chapel ceremony and saying the men ought to be put to death fast to save the taxpayers money. Every day counts for this family.
These men are real people with real lives and real family.
My neighbor got so upset she screamed "Mrs. Melissa Scott,it is the messed up church, religious system is broke! Keep your opinions on capitol punishment to yourself. My man is not a freak show. How would you like it if your husband Gene Scott was wrongly blamed and thrown in prison for life?"
Hard to believe the lady whose husband is in Quentin (posted by Anonymous) heard the Mrs Scott message correctly. Is it available online for verification?
One way to recognize false teachers is to notice how much emphasis is put on money? Jesus said: "Freely you have received, freely give" (Mat.10) Get out your concordance! You'll know the false teachers by their fruit...(Mat.7) I discovered early in my walk with Christ (32 years ago) that knowing your Bible will inoculate you against false teachers.
Doesn't the New Testament say that women are not supposed to be pastors?
Nothing like striving to discredit the messengers of truth will keep the critics of Christian ministers happy. Try listening to the underlying message from Mrs. Scott.
Cline, why dont you just try answering the question. (Steve)
He who is without sin, cast the first stone
Judge not, lest ye be judged
Pride goeth before a fall.
Shame on those of you more concerned with gossip than the Prince of Peace
When Peter was wrong, Paul opposed him to his face. There has to be accountability. (Steve)
Did her ever tell his congregation that he was married to Christine Shaw from 1982 to 1994? I only found this out on the internet in the last 2 years. Why did he keep that a big secret? (Steve)
Steve
1-If the question raised about Paul's concession to Roman custom of not having women participate is the one you are referring to, you will also notice in the same catalogye of do's and don'ts that slaves shouldn't rebel against masters. Lot's has changed in the last few years.
2-As to Scott's "secrecy" about previous marriages, I suspect he just didn't deem it necessary to talk about those unhappy experiences.
He kept it secret at the time also. In the 80s he acted like he was a confirmed bachelor, and that Christine Shaw was just someone he had with him all the time to provide an alibi in case false accusations were ever made against him. I remember hearing him say that as long as he had to have someone with him all the time, it might as well be a woman, because otherwise people would accuse him of being homosexual. So as long as people are going to talk, he might as well make them jealous instead of being laughed at. That's how he explained it. (Steve)
In '76, I, too, thought he was crazy. Thirty years later, I know he was crazy. Who would ever have given him credence?
I watched him from 1981-1991 because I liked his teachings on esoteric subjects. However, I never bought into his bogus version of basic Christianity, and I never approved of his abusive behavior. (Steve)
The Christian Church is the only establishment I know of whose primary requirement for membership is admitting guilt of sinful behavior! I don't recall Dr. Scott claiming sainthood. He was a brilliant scholar exploring scriptural meanings by personally translating their earliest versions from the original languages. His antics on tv were calculated to demonstrate his rejection of church doctrinal hypocracy. He mentored Mrs. Scott throughout their marriage. Few theologians are as well qualified as Pastor Melissa Scott to continue his work. Obviously the delivery style of a young woman is different from that of an old man - and she has not yet developed her own. Continue praying for her.
It's one thing to be imperfect, but it's another thing to be an abusive tyrant in the name of Jesus. (Steve)
What Scott was trying to get across is the fact that the "Christian Church" abandoned the teachings of Jesus during the third and forth centuries.
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The mainstream Church went astray in the 4th century when Constantine took control of it. (Steve)
"brilliant scholar".. sure, if a PHD in Education is any indication of scholarship then the world is trouble.
Back in the fifties/sixties Stanford wasnt even close to the school it is today and education as a doctorate is ridiculed in much of the academic community as being "soft".
Scott was a fraud and a huckster.
The fact that the Scott (both Dr. and Mrs) interpretations derived from ancient scriptures uncover discrepancies that persist in today's fundamental Christianity, is not related to formal educational certificates and degrees. Their analytical approach is supported by the global mindset almost perfectly.
I visited Pastor Scott's church in Glendale in the early '80's to get a first hand view and ear full from the flamboyant preacher...One thing that he got off the road about when preaching that peticular day was Woman Bashing...he repeatedly admonished his flock that day that women should be picture perfect, not overweight, and subservant to her man and God. I imagine he must have seen a frumpy woman near the front of the audience that day as he would not let up on his "message"...Either that, or he had his eye on some woman he was trying to impress in the front row....
Melissa legally seems to have the bible collection under her wing and will have every right to retire on the money the congregation gave to purchase it...She now is in control...like it or not....
Scott passed on his lifetime of his empire money which makes her pretty well off...every porn stars dream.............