Most Annoying Televangelists

[displacedyankeedem]

My vote goes to John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. The guy believes that the government is out on a crusade to take away your children, rails about the lack of corporal punishment, and laments the Bible being taken out of schools.

[demnan]

1. Someone with the stomach to listen to these guys

ought to have a poll. For me, I don't know I shut that out of my "beautiful mind".

[Autumn]

2. All of them

Take your pick.

[baldguy]

7. Agreed

Hawking salvation in exchange for money on teevee is no better than an infomercial - and just as shameless, tasteless, annoying and plain ridiculous.

[Stew225]

3. Ernest Angeley is so funny that it's hard not

to like the guy! But, alas poor Yorick, he is still annoying.

[asthmaticeog]

13. I hate that guy.

He takes five freakin' syllables to say "scripture." He's archetypal, yes, but if God really loved him, he'd get that man into speech therapy.

[BlueJazz]

17. Baaaaaa-By.......Baaaaa-By

He IS a Trip!
Many years ago our band used to make it a point to watch him........When we were stoned....Whoa...!
I haven't seen him in a long time. Does he still say I'ah (for i).

...And I'AH will rejoice when all.....

[kikiek]

4. I've said it before..Oral Roberts for surviving being held hostage by God

Personally I was very disappointed a rich person bailed him out and donated the money to his organization. I wanted to see how God would take him. Actually it was probably God who gave the big donor the money. He wasn't wanted there either.

[Bossy Monkey]

5. At least Oral's funny; he announced he'd made the nut on April Fools' Day

more here:
http://www.ondoctrine.com/10robero.htm

[kikiek]

6. It was funny. I kind of miss the old fart.

[miss_kitty]

8. they are all bad

but anyone here remember Kathryn "i Believe in Miracles" Kuhlman?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

11. before my time, but she was the mentor to this nehru-jacketed fool

he still shows clips of her on his show and brags about how he's one of the few people who has keys to her mauseleum

hinn gets my vote, by the way

[miss_kitty]

27. my sister and i used to turn the TV on on Sundays just to see her look

into the camera as she proclaimed "I...BELIEVE...IN...MIRACLES!" her catchphrase, and laugh our asses off...i had no idea Benny Hinn was her protoge...i had a friend who used to try and get me to watch Hinn for a laugh-but i declined. :)

[soothsayer]

9. My latest favorite is the dude who writes in Hebrew and Aramaic and

Greek and Sanscrit and godnoze what other languages on his big ol' white board. Verrrrrrrrrrrrry bizarre! But I'm not sure he's annoying. Just inscrutable.

[BiggJawn]

14. This guy?

Theat's the imfamous Dr. William Eugene Scott, or "Gene" Scott, or "Doc" as he's known to his fans.
He's about the most honest of the hucksters out there, which isn't saying much...

[soothsayer]

16. Hmmm. I don't recognize the hat, and I thought my guy was sort of

lankier, but the name sounds right. Maybe.

He's kooky, that's for sure!

[theoceansnerves]

20. he runs his "church"..

out of an historic building in downtown los angeles. he used to let people come in and look at the interior, but after 9/11 (of course) he stopped doing that.

[BiggJawn]

31. He got the church back?

I thought he had run into a problem with a deed covenant and couldn't hold his "kind" of church there?
Of course that was about 15 years ago.Last I saw he was back in "King's House #1"

[Tredge]

40. While not a fan...

...Dr. Gene Scott has had some amusing moments over the years. I used to watch him when I would have bouts of insomnia and his show was the only thing on.

I haven't seen him lately, and when I have he's usually dressed in a preacher's uniform w/collar and scribbling incomprehensibly on a dry erase board. The photo above looks like something from about ten years ago when I would watch him.

At one point I guess he was suffering for content, and so he filled about half an hour with film of him trying to hit golf balls over his barn with a pitching wedge. It was mindbending and surreal.

[PittPoliSci]

10. all.

duh.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

12. My old favorite is Bob Tilton

BET airs his scam late at night. He's now joined by his wife (I think) Maria who sings, after a fashion.

They are all annoying but fascinating, and some are scary. EWTN is good too - they're not like the "buy your way to heaven" crowd but they're nutty nonetheless.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

32. TILTON TILTON TILTON

What an ass. I normally give people some latitude when they are holding forth from the pulpit...but this guy is a HOOT! I challenge anyone to watch one of his broadcasts...see how long he talks (at any point) before mentioning something about money. "You gotta sew that vow of faith..." The man is all money, all the time!!!

What a friggin' jerkwad...

theProdigal

[GRLMGC]

15. This chick with pink hair

She's on a Christian channel here in L.A.. I don't know if she appears elsewhere around the country. Anyway, I don't know her name but she literally has pink hair and her lipstick tends to match with her hair.

[GRLMGC]

28. I have a picture

can you guys see that?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. Didn't come through....

I've seen her, though. Reminds me of Tammy Faye. :puke:

[GRLMGC]

36. Times 10

Good lord, this woman is EXTREMELY plastic looking.

[VOX]

43. It's Jan Crouch, of Paul and Jan Crouch. Big article on them in L.A. Times

They live like sultans, and Paul is busy fending off charges of having a gay lover.

[GRLMGC]

44. Why isn't that surprising?

hmmmm....

[Dude_CalmDown]

18. Sorry but I find them to be quite entertaining - let's go to the video

http://www.thedierks.com/allowe/video/FartingPreacher1.mpeg

http://www.thedierks.com/allowe/video/FartingPreacher2.mpeg

[BlueJazz]

19. Damn!!!...That's Funny!.. LMAO!!!

FRAP!!!! I sense his presence! LOL!

[Dude_CalmDown]

22. "Oh thank you Jesus!!!"

My favorite is the last one on the second vid - "Dear God!!!"

Yes this is the only way in which I can watch any of those idiots.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

33. oh man, THANKS

that it one of the funniest things I have ever seen! I have tears rolling down my face here in class...this is going to be with me for a long time!

theProdigal

[VOX]

37. I'm sitting in my cube on a Monday morning...and I'm barely able to...

Keep my cool, and not bust out hysterically.

This is one of the funniest bits I've seen in many moons.

Thanks for posting -- :toast:

[MrScorpio]

21. Before you confirm your choice, remember that Jimmy Swaggart

Is ONE sick fucker

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=1691885&mesg_id=1691885

[pstokely]

23. D James Kennedy

he begs for cash to 'expose' the ACLU

[yellowcanine]

45. Also the most self-rightous prick on TV. Falwell comes close, though.

[AgadorSparticus]

24. ALL!! I am allergic to televangelists.

:evilgrin::evilgrin:

[No2W2004]

25. Try not to barf when you read about these scumbags...

Pastor Paul Crouch looked into the camera and told his flock that Trinity Broadcasting Network needed $8 million to spread the Gospel throughout India and save 1 billion souls from damnation.

Crouch, head of the world's largest Christian broadcasting network, said even viewers who couldn't afford a $1,000 pledge should take a "step of faith" and make one anyway. The Lord would repay them many times over, he said.

"Do you think God would have any trouble getting $1,000 extra to you somehow?" he asked during a "Praise-a-thon" broadcast from Trinity's studios in Costa Mesa.

The network's "prayer partners" came through once again, phoning in enough pledges in one evening to put Christian programming on 8,700 television stations across India.

TBN was not short on cash. In fact, it could have paid for the India expansion out of the interest on its investment portfolio. But at TBN, the appeals for money never stop. Nor does the flow of contributions.

Over the last 31 years, Crouch and his wife, Jan, have parlayed their viewers' small expressions of faith into a worldwide broadcasting empire — and a life of luxury.

With his silver hair, mustache and bifocals, Paul Crouch comes across as a grandfatherly sort. What he calls his "German temper" can rise quickly, however. He often punctuates a point by shaking a finger at the camera.

"Get out of God's way," he said once, referring to TBN's detractors. "Quit blocking God's bridges or God is going to shoot you, if I don't."

Jan Crouch wears heavy makeup, long false lashes and champagne-colored wigs piled high on her head. She speaks in a sing-song voice and lets tears flow freely, whether reading a viewer's letter or recalling how God resurrected her pet chicken when she was a child.

She and Paul project the image of a happily married couple. But off the air, they lead separate lives and rarely stay under the same roof, according to former TBN employees and others who have spent time with the couple.

The Crouches also present themselves as thrifty and budget-conscious. During one telethon, Paul said his personal $50,000 donation to TBN had wiped out the family checking account. He often says that he and his wife live in the same Newport Beach tract house they bought 33 years ago for $38,500.

But nowadays, neither of the Crouches uses that home much. Whether in Southern California or on the road, they live in a variety of other TBN-owned homes. In all, the network owns 30 residences in California, Texas, Tennessee and Ohio — all paid for in cash, property records show.

These include two Newport Beach mansions in a gated community overlooking the Pacific. One of them was recently on the market for an asking price of $8 million. A real estate advertisement said it featured "11,000 square feet of opulent European luxury with regulation tennis courts and a rambling terraced hillside orchard with view of the blue Pacific."

(more if you can stomach it...)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=716&e=27&u=/latimests/20040919/ts_latimes/pastorsempirebuiltonactsoffaithandcash

[Maleficus]

26. Benny Hinn.

And Jesse Duplantis.

[AgadorSparticus]

29. i see that name and all i can think about is benny hill. lol

[Lindsey]

30. Hey you left out the best part of the Paul and Jan Couch story-

He had at least one homosexual affair a few years ago and was in the process of I guess being blackmailed or paying the guy off. All of this has been outlined in the past two Sunday editions of the L.A. Times (There was a front page story today). THESE PEOPLE ARE THE SCUMS OF THE EARTH. They accept money from people who are on disability (the most vulnerable amongst us) and yet they live lifes of luxury. PLUS the fact that they openly condemn homosexuality while they are leading double lives. MY GOD....WILL THIS EVER END?!?!?!?! The hyprocrisy is at a level that's it's almost intolerable to me. William Bennet and his gambling, Limbaugh and his "hillbilly heroin." ..and yet 1/2 of Americans support these nutcases....I continue to just be blown away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lgreen]

35. When I lived in New Orleans

there was this guy who broadcast out of Meridian, Mississippi. I can't remember his name, but he had this big bushy beard and sat on this ugly brown couch. He would say that Bill Clinton was the Anti-Christ and try to prove that Jesus built the pyramids in Egypt. My roommates and I used to watch it just to see what crazy stuff he would come up with next.

[terrya]

38. Jimmy "Get some therapy right now, because you need it" Swaggart.

For his recent comments about gay men.

[arwalden]

39. The Ones With Big-Hair... The Ones That Speak In Tongues

[GoddessOfGuinness]

41. The other night I saw some faux-hippiechick

whose makeup couldn't cover the fact that she had to be at least 50, try as hard as it might. She was spouting out some sort of girly-gibberish (is this what they mean by speaking in tongues?) occasionally interrupted with a flip of her hair and a "Praise Jesus!"

Lord help us...

[TrogL]

42. Peter Poppoff

Needs to be charged with practicing medicine without a license.