Televangelist Gene Scott Dies at Age 75

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Gene Scott, the shaggy-haired, cigar-smoking televangelist whose eccentric religious broadcasts were beamed around the world, has died, a family spokesman said. He was 75.

Scott died Monday after suffering a stroke, said the spokesman, Robert Emmers.

The longtime pastor of Los Angeles University Cathedral began hosting a nightly television broadcast of Bible teaching in the mid-1970s. His University Network eventually aired a nightly talk show and Sunday morning church services on radio and television stations in about 180 countries.

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For those of you unfamiliar with Gene Scott, eccentric -- and entertaining -- was an apt description of him. Here on the West Coast he was a fixture on TV, but he wasn't a hellfire and brimstone type of evangelist -- he was more focused on educating those that he preached to.

For an evangelist, I consider him to be an actual good guy. RIP Gene.