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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 01:16 PM Jul 2020

Obituary: Morris Cerullo -- 1931-2020:Famed televangelist opened Bible-themed attraction in San Diego

Morris Cerullo, the famed and sometimes controversial televangelist who opened a $200 million Bible-themed attraction in Mission Valley last December, passed away on Friday in a San Diego hospital after a brief bout with pneumonia. He was 88.

In December, the Rancho Santa Fe resident told The San Diego Union-Tribune that he hoped that his massive new Morris Cerullo Legacy International Center would reflect his lifetime of service, both to his faith and to the millions of people he ministered to throughout his life.

“I’m 88 years of age, and my time on this Earth may not be very long,” Cerullo said. “I wanted to leave something that would be of value and speak to the principles I’ve upheld for the past 70 years. All I can tell you is that everybody is welcome at the Legacy Center. We can’t draw any lines of demarcation. It’s like saying Jesus didn’t die for the Muslims. He died for the world. Our job is to love everybody and to love them sincerely but not hypocritically.”

Tributes to Cerullo — who ran ministry programs in more than 150 nations on six continents — have poured in from Christian leaders around the world.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/obituaries/story/2020-07-13/obituary-morris-cerullo-1931-2020-televangelist-opened-bible-themed-attraction-last-year-in-san-diego

I'm hoping and praying that the Falwells and Grahams of the world will soon join "Papa" in the arms of Jesus.

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Obituary: Morris Cerullo -- 1931-2020:Famed televangelist opened Bible-themed attraction in San Diego (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2020 OP
Pneumonia my ass. It was COVID and they are keeping it quiet so his followers won't turn Coventina Jul 2020 #1
What kind of person prays for death? KWR65 Jul 2020 #2
OK Zorro Jul 2020 #3
All he can tell you is that everybody is welcome frogmarch Jul 2020 #4
I'm sure Goddess will welcome him, even though she's a liberal. Binkie The Clown Jul 2020 #5
What a waste of $200-million. stopbush Jul 2020 #6
Hmmm...I used to live in North San Diego County and Rancho Santa Fe is a very abqtommy Jul 2020 #7
Yep. Rancho Santa Fe has one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country. Zorro Jul 2020 #8

Coventina

(26,850 posts)
1. Pneumonia my ass. It was COVID and they are keeping it quiet so his followers won't turn
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 01:19 PM
Jul 2020

against Trump.

KWR65

(1,098 posts)
2. What kind of person prays for death?
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 01:55 PM
Jul 2020
I'm hoping and praying that the Falwells and Grahams of the world will soon join "Papa" in the arms of Jesus.


Zorro

(15,691 posts)
3. OK
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 02:33 PM
Jul 2020

I'll be hoping and praying that the Falwells and Grahams of the world will soon join "Papa" in the arms of Satan.

It's their likely destination anyway.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
5. I'm sure Goddess will welcome him, even though she's a liberal.
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 03:22 PM
Jul 2020

In fact, eternal life in a heaven with a liberal Goddess might just seem like hell to him.

(Obviously, I don't know for sure that God is a liberal, but I'm betting that if she exists, she sure isn't a conservative.)

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
7. Hmmm...I used to live in North San Diego County and Rancho Santa Fe is a very
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 04:36 PM
Jul 2020

exclusive/pricey area. It was evident how some people who lived there got their money. (Like people
in movies.) For others like Cerullo I'd always go "hmmmm".

Zorro

(15,691 posts)
8. Yep. Rancho Santa Fe has one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country.
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 04:45 PM
Jul 2020

Just the place for someone who preaches the gospel ("It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”) to live...

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