Roy Masters

Roy Masters, born Reuben Obermeister, (1928–) is a strange cookie indeed. He has a weekly talk radio show (and a book) called Finding God in Physics, and does a daily radio show called Advice Line. His views are a weird hybrid of fundamentalist Christianity and the New Age movement, though he refutes the New Age claim and offers further explanation of his views in a statement of belief.[1]

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Masters used to be a full-time hypnotist, but apparently discovered that most people are already hypnotized, and need to be freed. He also thinks that after a few hand-waving references to quantum physics and gravity, he has proven the existence of his God. Add in abstinence-only sex education, traditional gender roles, vicious misogyny, past lives, and any right-wing conspiracy theory he has ever run into (and probably some that he made up), and you've got his views in a nutshell. He has his own version of mumbletypeg physics. He never met a right-wing conspiracy theory he didn't like. His Wikipedia page is heavily whitewashed[2] and seems to be defended by true believers.[3]

He hates Obama so much that when a caller calls Obama a "communist", he runs with it. Unsurprisingly, he is also an enthusiastic birther.

References
  1. Roy Masters' "Open Letter to Churches"
  2. See the Wikipedia article on Roy Masters (commentator).
  3. See the Wikipedia article on talk:Roy Masters (commentator).
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