Oral Roberts had been on TV since before I was born, but I never even heard of him before I moved to Oklahoma. My first reaction to ORU was that it was the height of vanity for somebody to name a university after himself.
The other hospitals in town protested that Tulsa didn't need another hospital (mostly because they didn't need the competition) but Roberts got City of Faith built anyway; his reasoning was that it would serve his ministry from all over the world, and not compete with other Tulsa hospitals. Problem was, if somebody breaks their leg in Spokane they're not gonna go all the way to Tulsa to get it set. There's whole floors in City of Faith that have never been finished.
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The other hospitals in town protested that Tulsa didn't need another hospital (mostly because they didn't need the competition) but Roberts got City of Faith built anyway; his reasoning was that it would serve his ministry from all over the world, and not compete with other Tulsa hospitals. Problem was, if somebody breaks their leg in Spokane they're not gonna go all the way to Tulsa to get it set. There's whole floors in City of Faith that have never been finished.