We learn all sorts of fascinating things working here at Yr Wonkette, and here is one of them: Jim Bakker, the disgraced '80s televangelist who served time for doing big-time financial fraud for Jesus, is actually still on teevee somewhere in the scary recesses of cable where we never go! We were awfully sad when his ex-wife, gay icon and mascara addict Tammy Faye, died in 2007, but we'd forgotten that Jim was still out there running his old End Times grift, at least until RawStory brought us
What a walk down memory lane -- the PTL Club did meander into social issues from time to time; particularly abortion; and Bakker's efforts to look stern and OT prophet-ish were hilarious. He looked like a chipmunk making a death threat.
More like totally mystified. The Jews had no concept of a god begetting a child by a human woman, immaculately or otherwise. No coincidence that this idea bore more fruit from the Gentiles, some of whom had included the Jewish god in their worship but saw nothing improper or disloyal about giving honor to the local gods.
The traditional Jewish view on the afterlife might be a stumbling block. No vehicle there for gleeful anticipation of the Righteous spectating the punishments of the Wrongteous.
When we were kids, my aunties and uncles would pile everyone up in the station wagon and drive down to Mecklenburg Co. to see the Bakker's third-world-dictator-like compound and the shit piles of tacky Christmas decorations all over everything. It was a Christmas tradition. Then they would go home and send the Bakker's some money so that the lights could come back next year.
Oh, Jim, Jim, Jim. That act was old 40 years ago, brah. Whyn't you let this ol' pony remind you of where you and your ex started off, so long ago - doing THIS for a living:
It was P.J. O'Rourke's article about the place that got me interested in seeing just how awful it was. Sadly, it closed long before I could take that trip to the Carolinas. Ah, well.
i was raised a baptist. i believed until i was a teenager. after that, not so much. now, not at all. religions are lies told to control people, and extort money from them. i am willing to change my opinion with proof but, not a lot of proof of any god.
He seems nice.
I guess he's been forgiven for that nasty sex scandal and the fraud convictions. He probably can't earn an honest living.
Idea! A government program that pays toxic grifters so they can STFU. In Alaska.
What a walk down memory lane -- the PTL Club did meander into social issues from time to time; particularly abortion; and Bakker's efforts to look stern and OT prophet-ish were hilarious. He looked like a chipmunk making a death threat.
More like totally mystified. The Jews had no concept of a god begetting a child by a human woman, immaculately or otherwise. No coincidence that this idea bore more fruit from the Gentiles, some of whom had included the Jewish god in their worship but saw nothing improper or disloyal about giving honor to the local gods.
The traditional Jewish view on the afterlife might be a stumbling block. No vehicle there for gleeful anticipation of the Righteous spectating the punishments of the Wrongteous.
He does appear to have a regurgitation fetish that didn't surface during his previous TV incarnations.
Didn't know that this piece of trash was still around. and didn't know that some cable co was so idiotic enough to put his trash on the tube.
When we were kids, my aunties and uncles would pile everyone up in the station wagon and drive down to Mecklenburg Co. to see the Bakker's third-world-dictator-like compound and the shit piles of tacky Christmas decorations all over everything. It was a Christmas tradition. Then they would go home and send the Bakker's some money so that the lights could come back next year.
Cue fetal position in 3, 2, 1....
Oh, Jim, Jim, Jim. That act was old 40 years ago, brah. Whyn't you let this ol' pony remind you of where you and your ex started off, so long ago - doing THIS for a living:
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It was P.J. O'Rourke's article about the place that got me interested in seeing just how awful it was. Sadly, it closed long before I could take that trip to the Carolinas. Ah, well.
How singularly apropos!
You waited until 1980? I started when my Jesus-freak cousin made me read 'The Late Great Planet Earth'
Read about The Great Disappointment. You'll either giggle yourself sick or get seriously depressed at just how gullible people can be.
At least he doesn't look quite as frog-like as he used to. I think it's the mustache.
*hides the gigantic flyswatter behind his back*
What? I was just testing the theory.
i was raised a baptist. i believed until i was a teenager. after that, not so much. now, not at all. religions are lies told to control people, and extort money from them. i am willing to change my opinion with proof but, not a lot of proof of any god.