Cozmoe

I don't know about anybody else, but I get a kick out of watching some of these televangelists out there. Why I don't know. Maybe I like being pissed off, or maybe it's like building up an immunity to snake venom, the more of this crap I watch, the stronger an atheist I become. My cable company just added TBN, so my cup runneth over.

Some of my favorites are Zola Levitt and James Kennedy, but the crème de la crème has to be John Hagee. He's a televangelist right out of central casting, big guy who rants and raves and spits while he talks and won't shut up about gays, pagans, sin, the devil, abortionists and so on.

Anybody else out there agree or am I a nutcase too?

IvanK

I used to watch Jimmy Swaggart, pre-weird behavior with prostitutes. Turned the sound down and put the Sex Pistols on the stereo. Awesome pogo, dude. For the younger set, Swaggart was cousin to Jerry Lee Lewis; a younger Jack Van Impe on angel dust.

Y'know it might be fun to put together a guide to televangelists like those rock band family trees or something . . .

irishajo

What about Benny Hinn?

Or Robert Tilton? (Once saw a video on him that someone had put together - farting sound effects were added everytime he screwed up his face in earnest prayer.)

clark

That Tilton flatulent tape is hilarious! I think it's called "Heaven Only Knows." The one good way to make atheists cry is to show them that tape. The cries, of course, are from laughter.

"Father?" <fart sound> "Oh, yes, I sense your presence!"

THOUGHTfully Yours,
Clark Adams

-DM-

My all-time favorite is Ernest Angley (who pronounces his last name as if it were spelled "Angely"). He says that he was carried aloft as a child (at the age of nine, if I remember correctly) to count the stars with "God." He is also a healer and he may, in fact, be the one whom Steve Martin patterned his Televangelist routine after inasmuch as Ernest says "Be Healed-duh" just as Steve Martin does.

--Don--

-DM-

Being both perfect and gaseous Himself, the Holy Ghost cannot fart.

--Don--

Viti

I like the Van Impes....just smiling happy and excited while talking about death, war, famine and other "End Times" horrors

Corwin

*shudders*

Those two freak me out big time.

'Preachers of the Corn' or somethin....

Cozmoe

Bob Larson's good too. He's mainly on radio and he always casts out those nice, polite demons who keep their language within FCC regulaions.

Stephen Maturin

Absolutely! When it comes to unabashed public lunacy, no one else is in Angley's league. He's a nutburger's nutburger.