fighting for it's life against the UNGAWDLY Terraists! He wasn't with us then now was he! The church's worst enemy is REALLY guys like Pat and Jerry...HYPOCRITES...they are what turns public opinion against the churches. Guys who beg for money to do "God's Work" and then spend that money they beg and bum, for things like whores, like Jimmy Swaggart got caught doing and things like a $15,000 dog houses with AC, like Jim and Tammy bought. I doubt if God told Jimmy Swaggart to go to the whore house.
Falwell Helps Car Dealers Escape Merchandise Tax
Church & State, Feb 2004
Virginia car dealers trying to escape a tax on inventory have found a new friend willing to help them for a price: the Rev. Jerry Falwell.
Amherst County, Va., has a law requiring business owners to pay a tax on all inventory held on site on Jan. 1. For car dealers, who keep large numbers of expensive vehicles, the tax can easily amount to tens of thousands of dollars.
Eager to duck the fees, some dealers arranged to temporarily rent space in an empty parking lot at FaI well's Liberty University in Lynchburg. The school is inside the city limits, making it beyond the reach of Amherst County tax agents.
Ronald Godwin, president of Jerry Falwell Ministries, refused to tell the Lynchburg News & Advance how much the dealers paid Falwell but added, "There will be some remuneration to Liberty University. We have a lot of empty parking lots, and these guys wanted to use them." MORE...
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200402/ai_n9369035Swaggart Plans to Step Down
The television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, faced with accusations that he picked up a California prostitute for sex, will step down from his worldwide ministry at least temporarily, a ministry official said tonight. Rosemary Garcia, a 31-year-old prostitute in Indio, Calif., said she was with Mr. Swaggart on Friday when he was stopped by a police officer and cited for traffic violations.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/r/religion_and_belief/index.html?query=SWAGGART,%20JIMMY&field=per&match=exactJimmy is now in the local police departments "book of Johns"
Jim Bakker
The Lord giveth and taketh away
fine toupees and Rolex watches.
Up until 1987, televangelist Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye were living in extravagance. The way they told it, prosperity was a gift from God, and He had blessed them with an army of followers and immense personal fortunes. The PTL ministry had a burn rate of $500,000 per day. Everything seemed to be going perfectly. But then Jim was caught fucking anything with a pulse and they could no longer conceal their egregious cash skimming.
Jim got snagged funneling $265,000 in hush money to virginal church secretary Jessica Hahn, in order to cover up their adulterous tryst. Suddenly the Bakkers became pariahs. All of their friends deserted them. Even fellow Assemblies of God minister Jimmy Swaggart took some unnecessary potshots, just for fun and just to be a dick. Swaggart went on CNN and told Larry King that Jim was a "cancer in the body of Christ."
Bakker's rival and business competitor Jerry Falwell was called in to rescue the PTL ministry along with its Heritage USA theme park, but Falwell had a much different goal. Years later, he described his brief stint as head of PTL this way:
"God sent me there to bring an abrupt end to the immorality and financial fraud of this 'religious soap opera' that had become an international embarrassment to the Christian gospel." MORE...
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/jim-bakker/If the church isn't getting the respect some believe it should, then maybe we democrats aren't the cause of their problems at all, as they insist! MAYBE it's the hypocrites that have caused people to lose respect for the churches.
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