According to my daughter, Cailin, my Dad, Earl Madden was an "Oracle." Even though my children never met their Grandfather, I have honored his memory by telling them stories from my childhood.
My Dad found racism to be abhorrent; he believed that spanking was child abuse. He felt that children children should play rather than being indentured to their parents' extensive household chores. He believed that acquiring an education wasn't everything. It was "the only thing."
This was in the 1950s before many of these views were popular.
So, an Oracle is "one held to give divinely inspired answers or revelations."
That's my Dad.
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