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MerryBlooms

(11,929 posts)
3. Sketchy link
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:27 PM
May 14

I get exposing these people
But your link took me to warning and wouldn't open 😂
Awesome 👍

RockRaven

(17,295 posts)
4. I'm reminded of George Carlin's bit on God needing money...
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:28 PM
May 14

It's better with his delivery aloud, of course, but:

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!

MerryBlooms

(11,929 posts)
5. Also, protect your privacy crap from DU
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:30 PM
May 14

I've hit that shit, over and over, it's still popping up
Ridiculous
I'm about the become a non member after all theses years
Wtf is this shit?

Jacson6

(1,282 posts)
7. Back in the early 80's I had a neighbor send him over a thousand dollars.
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:45 PM
May 14

JB was promising staying in his hotel for a week every year. That got JB convicted of fraud that sent him to a mental hospital for five years.

Bernardo de La Paz

(55,992 posts)
10. I'm not a fan, but I looked for your bizarre mental hospital claim and I think it is false. . . . .nt
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:59 PM
May 14

valleyrogue

(2,104 posts)
8. Bakker has been out of sight for months, and it is little wonder
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:47 PM
May 14

donations are way, way down. He was the main reason viewers tuned in, at least in recent decades. Tammy Faye, before their divorce, was the major draw back in the glory years.

His recent strokes and resulting sabbatical have taken a huge toll on his ministry. Neither Mondo nor Ricky have what it takes to be successors.

Jim's biological son, Jay, WOULD be up to the challenge, but I think he and his dad are still estranged. Jay has a Minnesota ministry, and he is a liberal. He would attract a completely different following than his dad.

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,074 posts)
9. Because prosperity is his divine right.
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:48 PM
May 14

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Not yours.

Who's old enough to remember that Reagan-era bumper sticker?

valleyrogue

(2,104 posts)
19. She married a stuntman and lives in California.
Thu May 15, 2025, 12:52 AM
May 15

She has been out of the limelight for years.

LuckyLib

(6,985 posts)
18. I was in grad school during his glory days with Tammy Faye.
Thu May 15, 2025, 12:41 AM
May 15

We would get really toasted and laugh uproariously at their grifting shenanigans. Now we have our own shyster as a “leader.” MAGATS and the PTL Club are all cut from the same cloth.

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