Jim Bakker is 85 years old, and he’s still running his scam.
Televangelist Jim Bakker needs 1,000 people to donate $1,000 each to save his ministry:
If they foreclose on this ministry, they will take my house too, so I’ll be on the street.
Yes, please. Shut down this scoundrel’s ministry and toss him out on the street.
I notice that he relies heavily on the old “seed money” con. If you give him money, he claims, Jesus will reward you with even more money, even if the truth is that handing your seed corn over to the old fraud really means he’ll be snacking on popcorn watching you fail and die.
People still fall for it.
Aw, for a second there I thought he had kicked the [Bakker] bucket. I was about to crack one open and feast on preservative-laden rehydrated cardboard in his honor.
I’m sure he’ll get his hands on someone else’s money. A fraudster always finds a way.
Exactly how does given a scammer money make Jesus want to give you money?
The real reason: I say this because the money I earn from bilking you guys and gals is easier then working a real job.
If I donated $6.66 how would he react?
I remember reading about Oral Roberts working such scams in Randi’s Faith Healers.
Money is money. He’d cash the check. You don’t think he really believes that shit, do you?
“Out on the streets”, you say? Can’t think of a better person for that to happen to. Except Trump. And Musk. MTG, too. Okay, I can think of a number of people I’d like to see loose everything and tossed unceremoniously into the socio-economic gutter, but Bakker is definitely on the not-so-little list.
And by “loose”, I mean “lose”. Oh, the shame.
“If they foreclose on this ministry, they will take my house too, so I’ll be on the street.”
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Sorry, but I’ve reached the point where I simply no longer care about stupid people getting scammed. The local paper had a story today about a local immigrant community that voted for Trump because they wanted him to keep other immigrants out. They now feel betrayed because he’s deporting them too. If you’re going to allow yourself to fall for a blatantly obvious con, maybe there should be consequences. (Which does not mean I oppose prosecuting con artists. Just because a homeowner left the door open doesn’t mean we don’t prosecute the burglar, but neither do we feel sorry for the homeowner.)
Years ago there was a religious con artist named Marjoe Gortner, who admitted that it had all been a scam. After admitting it had all been a scam, and receiving wide publicity about it, he started another “ministry” that in no time was again raking in big bucks from the gullible. Oh well, stupid is as stupid does.
Jim & Tammy feature prominently in Zappa’s “Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk” (along with some of their fellow grifters):
Sorry your Church of the Perpetual Scam isn’t working out for you any longer, Jimbo. But, look on the bright side, there’s always social security. Just make sure Elon hasn’t declared you dead already.
We are living in an age where soooo many sheople are joining crack-pot cults.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/amanda-marcotte/113785/tiktok-s-jesus-glow-trend-exposes-the-emptiness-of-social-media-religion
A social media site is currently awash in before-and-after videos from people purporting to be recent converts, celebrating their physical transformation from alleged misfit to their current “Jesus glow” status. There’s the former goth who now sports a prairie dress look.
I’d hate to see him on the street
because he belongs in prison
Back in the 1970s, I had a Sunday morning gig running a local radio station in Pittsburgh. The job was basically firing up the transmitter in the morning* and then playing tapes from syndicated radio preachers.
One of them was Reverend Ike who, IIRC, was one of the first of the “prosperity gospel” scammers. His bit was, if you truly believe (and incidentally send some money to Reverend Ike), then you too can enjoy worldly success.
He would actually have testimonials on the show. I remember one woman who said that she had prayed really really hard and, “you know what I found in my driveway the next morning? A Cadillac!”; and Reverend Ike said, “A Cadillac?! That’s what rich people drive!” (I’m not making that up. I wouldn’t be able to make that up.)
Even though I needed the money, I quit after three or four weeks because I didn’t want to be a party to ripping off poor people.
*That was during my wires-and-pliers period, and I had a First Class Radiotelephone License (which is no longer a thing). You needed such a license to operate a directional AM station.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall believe pretty much anything – Marks 1
He should try his hand at selling pillows.
Surely the Trump administration can find a job for such a worthy man.
Lol. For God so loved the world, that he drowned everyone in it. Cursed it too.