Comments on: I Just Couldn’t Look Away: The Crazed, Cranky, Captivating Christianity of Dr. Gene Scott http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott ...dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BK http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott/comment-page-1#comment-190062 BK Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:19:41 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/im.php/?p=121#comment-190062 You've captured my mentor, Gene Scott, to a tee. Thank you, boy do I miss that old curmudgeon! You’ve captured my mentor, Gene Scott, to a tee. Thank you, boy do I miss that old curmudgeon!

]]> By: steveg http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott/comment-page-1#comment-178603 steveg Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:06:19 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/im.php/?p=121#comment-178603 maybe he was a little crazy, but his teachings where awsome and didnt we all learn more of the gospels from him. iwouldnt do as he does but i would listen to what he has taught about the bible .he like us , will all fall short of the glory of GOD. maybe he was a little crazy, but his teachings where awsome and didnt we all learn more of the gospels from him. iwouldnt do as he does but i would listen to what he has taught about the bible .he like us , will all fall short of the glory of GOD.

]]> By: David Thompson http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott/comment-page-1#comment-125582 David Thompson Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:00:41 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/im.php/?p=121#comment-125582 For those concerned with the lack of discernemnt regarding Gene Scott... until you've heard him read from The Amityville Horror and asked yourself what the @#! is he doing? and then been unable to turn away ... you just can't appreciate the hilarious beauty of this redeemed train wreck of a man. Anyone on TBN will have me pulling my hair out within minutes. I hate the version of christianity they broadcast around the world. Come to think of it, many evangelical darlings also make me cringe - I don't think your average guy on the street makes a big disctinction between Benny Hinn and baptist obsesseing over alcohol or reformed guys obsessing over theological minutia. Gene Scott was your crazy uncle - you wouldn't leave the kids with him, you didn't believe everything he said, but you still liked having him around. He was a charicature, but he wasn't a joke. And at the end of the day you smiled and thought, "If God has room in the kingdom for Gene, just maybe there is hope for the rest of us who don't quite have it all together." For those concerned with the lack of discernemnt regarding Gene Scott… until you’ve heard him read from The Amityville Horror and asked yourself what the @#! is he doing? and then been unable to turn away … you just can’t appreciate the hilarious beauty of this redeemed train wreck of a man.

Anyone on TBN will have me pulling my hair out within minutes. I hate the version of christianity they broadcast around the world. Come to think of it, many evangelical darlings also make me cringe – I don’t think your average guy on the street makes a big disctinction between Benny Hinn and baptist obsesseing over alcohol or reformed guys obsessing over theological minutia.

Gene Scott was your crazy uncle – you wouldn’t leave the kids with him, you didn’t believe everything he said, but you still liked having him around. He was a charicature, but he wasn’t a joke. And at the end of the day you smiled and thought, “If God has room in the kingdom for Gene, just maybe there is hope for the rest of us who don’t quite have it all together.”

]]> By: drial44 http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott/comment-page-1#comment-7830 drial44 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:44:10 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/im.php/?p=121#comment-7830 Ive never seen nor heard the aforementioned Dr Scott; perhaps I will postumously; however,(and maybe I'm naive), but participating in the debauchery of sinners is no commercial for the holy living to which we are realistically called and struggle with everyday; Pastors should be examples (not of perfection but...) of a reasonable performance in that struggle; not complicitors with the enemy and their behaviour; I know I sound too Holier than whoever but I struggle to fight against thoughts and actions antithetical to Christ-Likeness (not always successfully) and from what you ve written I couldnt disagree more with your assessment that Christ would have liked him; it seems to me Christ would have mourned his unrepentant behaviour given the great gifts he bestowed on him for service to his Lord; regardless of the charity and obvious entertainment value. JohnL Ive never seen nor heard the aforementioned Dr Scott; perhaps I will postumously; however,(and maybe I’m naive), but participating in the debauchery of sinners is no commercial for the holy living to which we are realistically called and struggle with everyday; Pastors should be examples (not of perfection but…) of a reasonable performance in that struggle; not complicitors with the enemy and their behaviour; I know I sound too Holier than whoever but I struggle to fight against thoughts and actions antithetical to Christ-Likeness (not always successfully) and from what you ve written I couldnt disagree more with your assessment that Christ would have liked him; it seems to me Christ would have mourned his unrepentant behaviour given the great gifts he bestowed on him for service to his Lord; regardless of the charity and obvious entertainment value.
JohnL

]]> By: arccom http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott/comment-page-1#comment-5746 arccom Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:50:22 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/im.php/?p=121#comment-5746 first,let me say that i loved gene scott as a brother and a teacher,that is all he ever claimed to be. gene lived his life as a man and as a minister of christ and he was the first to tell you that he was not perfect,but,he did the hard research and critical if occasionally unconventional thought that made him for me,a true intellectual in the ministry,he did his homework and deserved to be wealthy in a world where we so often pay for truth and get,falsehoods, lies,and misrepresentations,IMHO. I first met gene scott,late one night,(or rather ,early one morning following an all night crack and alcohol binge during which i spent my whole paycheck and was sitting on my bed in my mothers house,trying to figure out how to tell my estranged wife and my mother,and still have a wife and a bed to sleep in when they found out,but my drug addled mind was spinning too fast to do me any good and the T.V. wasnt helping,so there i sat spinning the t.v. dial and saw only fuzz untill finally one fuzzy uhf channel booming the picture we all recognize of dr gene,ranting about the lack of donations to buy some church in downtown l.a... it changed my life,this turned into a ritual after binges and then to revival of my relationship with god that gene scott told me was not dependent on what i did ,but what i was,and that,was a child of the most high,i learned(in hebrew)to ,as he said,ha-le-lu-jah and not to as he said " ha-le-lu-gene" ,years have passed and eventually so will I,but he taught me how to live and how to die thru the example of christ,and that no matter what the world said,i have a blood bought, come as i am,first class,ticket to the wedding feast of the lamb,Gene taught me that,for which i am exceedingly gratefull ,god sent him to us,as he then sent us to others and so it goes,untill the end of the world,gene taught me that too,as to the phone banks,i had the same experience,the dr ran a tight ship,allright and i couldnt have worked for him but god used him to save my life in more ways than one,and ,all i have of him is memories and a tischendorf bible,i am disabled and cant afford the tapes so im stuck with the old t.v. broadcasts untill they stop,i havent found anyone to fill his void and im sure they havent either,the usual thing that happens in such cases is they make as much money as they can and then release the old sermons to be digitally remastered and put into data bases (ala,spurgeon) at any rate he will be grately missed by someone that god sent him to minister to,thirty-five or fourty years ago. first,let me say that i loved gene scott as a brother and a teacher,that is all he ever claimed to be. gene lived his life as a man and as a minister of christ and he was the first to tell you that he was not perfect,but,he did the hard research and critical if occasionally unconventional thought that made him for me,a true intellectual in the ministry,he did his homework and deserved to be wealthy in a world where we so often pay for truth and get,falsehoods, lies,and misrepresentations,IMHO.
I first met gene scott,late one night,(or rather ,early one morning following an all night crack and alcohol binge during which i spent my whole paycheck and was sitting on my bed in my mothers house,trying to figure out how to tell my estranged wife and my mother,and still have a wife and a bed to sleep in when they found out,but my drug addled mind was spinning too fast to do me any good and the T.V. wasnt helping,so there i sat spinning the t.v. dial and saw
only fuzz untill finally one fuzzy uhf channel booming the
picture we all recognize of dr gene,ranting about the lack of donations to buy some church in downtown l.a… it changed my life,this turned into a ritual after binges and then to revival of my relationship with god that gene scott told me was not dependent on what i did ,but what i was,and that,was a child of the most high,i learned(in hebrew)to ,as he said,ha-le-lu-jah and not to as he said ” ha-le-lu-gene”
,years have passed and eventually so will I,but he taught me how to live and how to die thru the example of christ,and that no matter what the world said,i have a blood bought, come as i am,first class,ticket to the wedding feast of the lamb,Gene taught me that,for which i am exceedingly gratefull ,god sent him to us,as he then sent us to others and so it goes,untill the end of the world,gene taught me that too,as to the phone banks,i had the same experience,the dr ran a tight ship,allright and i couldnt have worked for him but god used him to save my life in more ways than one,and ,all i have of him is memories and a tischendorf bible,i am disabled and cant afford the tapes so im stuck with the old t.v. broadcasts untill they stop,i havent found anyone to fill his void and im sure they havent either,the usual thing that happens in such cases is they make as much money as they can and then release the old sermons to be digitally remastered and put into data bases (ala,spurgeon) at any rate he will be grately missed by someone that god sent him to minister to,thirty-five or fourty years ago.

]]> By: joel hunter http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott/comment-page-1#comment-1393 joel hunter Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/im.php/?p=121#comment-1393 Thanks for this one, Monk. Our Dr. Gene scrapbooks are a lot alike. And it's comforting to know that I'm not the only one who felt a twinge of guilt for not throwing the old guy a few bones. Thanks for this one, Monk. Our Dr. Gene scrapbooks are a lot alike. And it’s comforting to know that I’m not the only one who felt a twinge of guilt for not throwing the old guy a few bones.

]]> By: L A Owens http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott/comment-page-1#comment-1394 L A Owens Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/im.php/?p=121#comment-1394 I hadn't heard Dr. Scott had passed away. I called my husband as soon as I saw your article because we had lots of fun evenings with another couple watching him sing "Well, I might have gone fishn'..." while he smoked his cigar and waited for the phones to ring. It is an end of an era. I hadn’t heard Dr. Scott had passed away. I called my husband as soon as I saw your article because we had lots of fun evenings with another couple watching him sing “Well, I might have gone fishn’…” while he smoked his cigar and waited for the phones to ring. It is an end of an era.

]]> By: James Aguilar http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott/comment-page-1#comment-1395 James Aguilar Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/im.php/?p=121#comment-1395 You should look into Dr. Steve Brown. Your entry made me think of him. He's a lot like the Dr. Scott you describe, but perhaps not quite so much. You should look into Dr. Steve Brown. Your entry made me think of him. He’s a lot like the Dr. Scott you describe, but perhaps not quite so much.

]]> By: iMonk http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott/comment-page-1#comment-1396 iMonk Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/im.php/?p=121#comment-1396 I appreciate Steve Brown and enjoy his work. But he's very very tame compared to Dr. Scott. (Thankfully) I appreciate Steve Brown and enjoy his work. But he’s very very tame compared to Dr. Scott. (Thankfully)

]]> By: Scott McClare http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/i-just-couldnt-look-away-the-crazed-cranky-captivating-christianity-of-dr-gene-scott/comment-page-1#comment-1397 Scott McClare Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/im.php/?p=121#comment-1397 Michael, I think you've captured the essence of Gene Scott perfectly. Bottle it and sell it, it's worth millions. This was the same stuff that I found so attractive back in 1992 when I came across him after listening to shortwave for about a year. Michael, I think you’ve captured the essence of Gene Scott perfectly. Bottle it and sell it, it’s worth millions. This was the same stuff that I found so attractive back in 1992 when I came across him after listening to shortwave for about a year.

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