re: I learned a new word today

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[Oral] Roberts' fundraising was controversial. In January 1987, during a fundraising drive, Roberts announced to a television audience that unless he raised $8 million by that March, God would "call him home." However, the year before on Easter he had told a gathering at the Dallas Convention Center that God had instructed him to raise the money "by the end of the year" or he would die

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God is an extortionist? Who knew?

Seriously, Roberts was literally claiming extortion by the Almighty.