But who is it that has the temerity to advocate for the Christian masses to warn them about the crimes and clever con artistry they are being subjected to everyday of the week.
Not even the saintly and venerable Billy Graham chose to utter a peep over the self-evident ,in your face robbery, and fraudulent game of scriptural charades that many dozens of phony baloney television con artists portraying themselves as men of God and had so successfully enriched themselves, at the expense of the most gullible. And throughout this shameful episode of degeneracy and high stakes swindle, no one from the mainstream legitimate Christian leadership ever stepped up to the plate to personally condemn what had been taking place for so many years. Here’s a case in point: many in the Christian Community are familiar with the years of constant swindling and major fraud which came about as a result of the totally fraudulent televangelist ministries of Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker. And there’s nothing more to it than that. The problems which indeed exist and have brought great woe to the faithful are of their own doing. Rest assured, there are no dark phantoms hovering overhead wishing to bring harm to the community of Faith. How often have your heard Christians place the blame for their situation on the Almighty or on the lack of supplication for his succor during times of great need or as some have stated, to seriously pray before the calamitous events unfold before our very eyes ,is really what’s needed.Īll of which has done nothing to bring clarity or respite to the current state of apostasy gripping the Christian Faith community in America. In many instances it was easy to direct blame for their plight onto others. This has caused them a great deal of confusion and consternation over the godless direction the nation unwittingly has chosen to go. The preacher with the syrupy sounding baritone voice who claimed to speak in tongues with the gifts of the spirit, also enjoyed the guilty pleasures of watching Debra Murphree a poor wretched 20 dollar whore masturbate ,while he sat in a green molded lawn chair in room #7 of the travel Inn motel ,located in New Orleans.Many times in the past, the Christian Faith community has expressed many deep concerns ,concerning the conditions which have negatively affected them over the course of many years. The sick encounters with hookers during his tenure as the fire eating ,condemning Bible overhead waving lying son of a bitch have become legendary. The scope of the vast wealth he accumulated during the course of his career as America’s best know Evangelist and preacher. The utter depravity and corruption that was part and parcel of Jimmy’s Christian revivalism became known, not only for the salaciousness of his sick and filthy escapades with hookers ,but also noted for the depth of his hypocrisy as much as My Fellow Christians: It’s been many years since the scandals revolving around the Swaggart ministry of televangelism made headlines in America, and all over the world. Swaggart’s television ministry continues airing around the world. The California incident came three and a half years after he gave his infamous “I have sinned” speech, after he was secretly photographed with a prostitute at a seedy New Orleans motel.Ĭaught with a hooker for the second time in less than four years, Swaggart told his congregation that “demon spirts” were responsible for his troubles.Ĭolumnist Paul Bedard on the expanded Washington Examiner magazine 11, in 1991, television preacher Jimmy Swaggart was found, for the second time, in the company of a prostitute when he was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol for driving on the wrong side of the road.
In the end, the author sees Jimmy as a victim – like many others – of a primitive faith colliding with the forces of the late 20th century fame. It is the story, too, of the rapid rise of the Religious Right, with its competing personalities and ideologies. A major theme of the book is how the religious ecstasy of Pentecostalism – the rousing music, the speaking in tongues, the reception of the Spirit – combined with its severe sexual repression leads to the kind of furtive acting out that brought down not only Jimmy Swaggart but also other evangelists. This the tale of the rise of two intimately linked colossi of the American century: Pentecostalism, the fastest growing religious movement in the world, and its “evil twin”, Rock ‘n’ Roll. But then, in a cheerless motel west of New Orleans, Jimmy’s life and ministry took a calamitous turn. By 1987 Swaggart was one of the most popular video preachers in the world, with a weekly television audience of 2.1 million in the US and a worldwide audience of millions more in 143 countries.
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