Nope. Not the biggest fraud imaginable.
Rightwing televangelist and demon-spawn Jimmy Swaggart recently died at age 90
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Margot
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It's like farmers support Trump, who is the Antithesis of the country community
Dutch Uncle
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I believe Perry is mildly retarded. Sad.
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose massive ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose multimillion-dollar ministry and huge audience dwindled following his prostitution scandals, has died. He was 90.
The Louisiana native was best known for being a captivating Pentecostal preacher with a massive following before being caught on camera with a prostitute in New Orleans in 1988, one of a string of successful TV preachers brought down in the 1980s and ’90s by sex scandals. He continued preaching for decades, but with a reduced audience.
Swaggart encapsulated his downfall in a tearful 1988 sermon, in which he wept and apologized but made no reference to his connection to a prostitute.
More trouble came in 1991, when police in California detained Swaggart with another prostitute. The evangelist was charged with driving on the wrong side of the road and driving an unregistered Jaguar. His companion, Rosemary Garcia, said Swaggart became nervous when he saw the police car and weaved when he tried to stuff pornographic magazines under a car seat.
Swaggart started a radio show, a magazine, and then moved into television, with outspoken views.
He called Roman Catholicism “a false religion. It is not the Christian way,” and claimed that Jews suffered for thousands of years “because of their rejection of Christ.”
Swaggart’s messages stirred thousands of congregants and millions of TV viewers, making him a household name by the late 1980s. Contributors built Jimmy Swaggart Ministries into a business that made an estimated $142 million in 1986.
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose massive ministry was toppled by prostitution scandals, dies at 90
In a tearful 1988 sermon, he wept and apologized, telling parishioners across the nation, "I have sinned against you."www.pbs.org
Didn't Jerry Lee Lewis marry his child cousin?
Dutch Uncle
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Agreed it's odd, but MAGAts aren't Christians while many who supported Swaggart were true believers.
The Charlie Kirk memorial service drew a clear line between the MAGAt mammon-worshipers and the Evangelical Christians.
Freddy Figbottom
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evangelicals are dumb zionists and Charlie got murdered for resisting Zionism.
It's the Christian fundamentalists and Christian nationalists you have to watch out for. Evangelicals are a catch-all term that isn't as monolithic as is widely believed. Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson, and Bill Clinton were evangelical. There has always been a measurable social justice element to some denominations of Evangelicalism.
Jake Starkey
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Yes, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown, in 1957. She was his first cousin once removed, and the marriage caused a massive scandal that nearly destroyed his career.