absolutely nothing

That’s right, absolutely nothing! While this is highly unusual, to have someone sit on TV and do nothing but stare at the viewers, it is not unheard of. Take for example, Bishop, Dr. “euGene” (deliberately spelled that way and not capitalized and sometimes called “Gene”) Scott who sometimes used the “silent” tactic to raise money from his television viewers.

Dr. Scott, ("doctor" as he earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University) died in February 2005, at the age of 75. He was a man of many talents, and he would happily do any of them on television for his viewers. He could smoke cigars, ride horses, fish, and even do creative linguistic or mathematical calculations on a whiteboard with multicolored markers. Sometimes he would play the saxophone or read books on demonology or UFO’s aloud, and then other times he would just sit silently and …(believe it or not)…do absolutely… yes, absolutely nothing. He would just sit there, staring into the camera… until you called in to the 1-800 number at “Festival of Faith” and made a financial pledge to his ministry.

Scott, a “minister/preacher” from LA’s University Cathedral, was known for his philanthropy, crudeness, rudeness, wealth, profanity (in the name of Jesus) and also for teaching about the resurrection. He was known to say, ”Nuke em’ in the name of Jesus,” when lecturing about the Gulf War.

You can still catch Scott in reruns or video doing some of his strange calculations in ancient languages on a whiteboard from time to time. He is limited to film though because the man is now deceased, however, his image lives on, in TV land. He calls his expository presentation, “Christianity for the 21st Century.”

His third, and much younger wife Melissa, a former model, now carries on the tradition and the legacy of her late husband. You can purchase Scott’s archived teachings or join Melissa via Internet or late night TV, following in her husbands footsteps.