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Bob Larson
Born (1944-05-28) May 28, 1944 (age 79)
Westwood, Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation(s)Evangelist, pastor
Websiteboblarson.org

Bob Larson (born May 28, 1944) is an American radio and television evangelist, and a pastor of Spiritual Freedom Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Larson has authored numerous books critical of rock music and Satanism.

Life and career

Larson was born in

née Baum) and Earl Larson.[1][2] He was raised in McCook, Nebraska.[1]

Larson plays

sexually suggestive lyrics, Eastern religious mysticism, and anti-social behavior
of many of the era's rock musicians.

Debates with Satanists

During the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Larson repeatedly debated, interviewed, and confronted

Satanist" James Mason on his Talk-Back radio show.[5]

Talk Back

In 1982, Larson launched Talk Back, a two-hour weekday call-in show geared mainly toward

rap, and actively promoted the music and artists on his show.[citation needed
]

By the late 1980s, in what would come to define his later ministry, Larson was often heard performing

Satanic ritual abuse were frequent topics of discussion. Death metal performer Glen Benton of Deicide became a regular caller, as did Bob Guccione Jr., eldest son of Penthouse founder Bob Guccione and founder of the music magazine Spin. At one point during the 1980s, Guccione Jr. paid Larson to go on tour with American thrash metal band Slayer and write about it.[6]

Larson tried his hand at writing fiction. Dead Air (1991) was largely

Satanic ritual abuse to political corruption; the latter was largely written by Larson and his second wife. However, a former vice president of Bob Larson Ministries, Lori Boespflug, said that much of Dead Air, though presented as Larson's work, is allegedly her own. Supporting these claims is a letter from Larson's lawyer that warns Larson of his "potential liability to Lori", anticipating that "the role Lori has played" would lead her to "demand recognition and/or profit participation" in respect to Dead Air and its sequels.[3]

In 2004, Larson returned to the radio airwaves after a two-year absence with a daily talk show heard on a network of radio stations and simulcast and archived on the internet.[citation needed]

Larson's ministry professes to offer an alternative counseling outlet to people who have problems with

Satanic ritual abuse, or molestation.[citation needed
]

Exorcism

In 2013 Vice magazine taped a video of Larson's visit in several small towns in Ukraine where he performed exorcisms together with three young women – his 18-year-old daughter Brynne Larson and her friends Tess and Savannah Sherkenback (18 and 21 respectively, collectively known as "The Teenage Exorcists").[8] The Teenage Exorcists consequently published a reply to Vice Media's video stating that they "question the journalistic integrity of this Vice Media story and are disappointed by how we were falsely portrayed."[9]

As of 2014, Larson offered to perform exorcisms over Skype (for a donation of $295).[10] His Skype exorcisms were featured in a segment on the satirical program The Daily Show in 2014, in which he told correspondent Jessica Williams, "Skype is a great technology to stare down the Devil, to go after him and to kick him back to hell." Later in the same segment, however, he indicated that "tweeting an exorcism would be ridiculous."[11]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-8103-8878-2
    .
  2. ^ "Personals". McCook Daily Gazette. 1998-01-13. p. 4. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
  3. ^
    ISSN 0275-2743. Archived from the original
    on 2006-06-10. Retrieved 2006-06-08.
  4. ^ Bialik, Kristen (26 May 2012). "The Church of Satan Interviewed by Televangelist Bob Larson: Not the Conversation You Think It Is". Huffington Post. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  5. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "James Mason on Talk-Back With Bob Larson". YouTube.
  6. ^ Kelefa, Sanneh (18 Jan 2019). "Record Deal with the Devil". This American Life podcast. Retrieved 29 Jan 2019.
  7. ISBN 978-1-939578-00-6
    .
  8. ^ Charlet Duboc. "Teenage Exorcists". Vice. Archived from the original on 3 August 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  9. ^ "Teenage Exorcists Respond to Vice Media Report". Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  10. Salon
    . Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  11. ^ ""The Daily Show's" Jessica Williams gets an exorcism via Skype". Comedy Central. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

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