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IT has been said that God moves in mysterious ways but even He might be perplexed by one of the unlikeliest preachers ever to take to a pulpit.
By: Peter Sheridan
Published: Fri, October 18, 2013
OJ Simpson, the disgraced former American football legend convicted in two wrongful death cases, widely believed to be a double murderer, currently serving up to 33 years for armed robbery and kidnapping, plans a life as a TV evangelist. And as a judge considers his plea for a retrial, the 66-year-old jailbird could be free and preaching on TV by the New Year.
"OJ has rediscovered his faith," says Kenny Saylors, who is making a documentary about Simpson. "Prison has actually set him free."
Simpson prays in his cell every night and his manager Norman Pardo says: "OJ is very religious now and he's been counselling other inmates with Bible studies for months. When I talk to him on the phone all he wants to discuss is religion. He's obsessed."
African-American Simpson has even transformed a "white supremacist" cell mate into an unlikely trusted friend, according to Pardo.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/437595/Has-religion-really-changed-OJ-Simpson
hlthe2b
(102,358 posts)Ineeda
(3,626 posts)mea culpa, he's full of shit. And he can even do it with impunity, having been adjudicated not guilty. Double jeopardy, you know.
zazen
(2,978 posts)which is the only plausible alternative I've ever heard, then he would stop covering for him.
Humility is central to spirituality and would require accountability and honesty. Otherwise, he's just another huckster who's found a calling for megalomaniacal abusers who crave public praise with its implicit complicity in his denial.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)He's exactly the kind of man who would "convert" if it were expedient.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Dubbya, look that warmongers and murders have. Cringe.
edhopper
(33,615 posts)will forgive him for the murderous bastard he is. So he turns to an imaginary entity to absolve himself of this horrible crime.
I don't really want him to find comfort in anything, he should be tormented by what he did.