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Bob Larson (born 1944 - McCook, Nebraska) is a radio & television evangelist, later depending inside Colorado. Larson has authored many books on the cases of rock music, cults, and Satanism, written from the Christian perspective.

Larson plays guitar; he has claimed his early lives as a musician led to his concerns all about occult and destructive influences in rock'n'roll. He would late incorporate his guitar swimming into occasionally of his sermons. In the 1960s the focus of Larson's preaching centered mainly on the left-wing political ideology, sexually suggestive lyrics, Eastern religious mysticism, & antisocial behavior of numbers of of the era's rock musicians. Less flamboyant than a Peters Brothers and less sensational than Jack Chick, Jeff Godwin, or Jacob Aranza, Larson is still remembered when one of a virtually all vocal fundamentalistic Christian critics of rock.

Per 1970s, however, very much of Larson's teachings caring Satanism. Larson originally rejected Christian rock 'n' roll according to its similarity around healthy & image to laic rock-and-roll. Larsin often appeared as a guest on laic & religious chat show.

"Talk Back" with Bob Larson

Around 1982 Larson launched "Talk Back", a deuce-hour weekday call for-around indicate geared chiefly toward stripling & oft focused in teen-oriented topics like role-playing games and rock and roll. By this period Larsin experienced came to embrace contemporary Christian music, including styles like heavily metal & rap, & actively promoted a music & creative person on his indicate.

"Talk Back" was one of a virtually all prank called shows on radio. Groups of telephone hoaxer took delight inside catching past Larson's call for screeners. A cases of Satanism & Satanic ritual abuse were frequent topics of discussion. Per late 1980s, in what would came to define his in the future ministry, Larson was typically heard performing exorcisms of callers on the air. A progressively stunning tone of the indicate, cooperative using allegations of moral & fiscal misdeed led several affiliates - including tons of Salem Broadcasting's stations simultaneously - to drop the indicate in the early Nineties. Larson's marriage to his wife Kathryn, which experienced produced 1 girl, ended around divorce in 1992.

In the 1990s, "Talk Back" began losing much of its teenaged focus - though Satanism & dispossession remained when a indicate's cornerstones. A indicate began incorporating supplementary right wing politically-oriented topics. Despite a newly focus, a total of affiliates continued to decrease until Larson ended a indicate around 2001.

Larson tried his hand at writing fiction: Dead Air (1991) was according to his lives behind a mike around treating by owning a occult. His late novels Abaddon (1993) & ''A Senator's Agenda two linked Satanic ritual abuse to political corruption. All the same, the previous vice president of BLM (Bob Larson Ministries), Lori Boespflug, claimed uncooperative of Dead Air'', though presented when Larson's function, is actually her have. Supporting these claims occurs as letter from either Larson's attorney 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" within respect to Dead Air & its sequels.[http://www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss100/larson.htm]

In todays world, Larsin remains active as a itinerant evangelist, however focusing primarily on Satanism & dispossession.

Around 2004 Larsin returned to the radio airwaves after the both-biennial absence using the day-after-day chat show heard on the network of radio stations & simulcast & archived using your internet browser.

Bob Larson's Ministry Under Scrutiny
1993 article by Jon Trott, from Cornerstone magazine.

Bob Larson Slanders Wicca and Wiccans
Links to various anti-Bob Larson references, published by a pagan.

Bob Larson Fan Club
Claims to expose lies on the part of televangelist Bob Larson.






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