who is the most revolting tv evangelist

[historian]

I think its Swaggart - the sight of him crying on TV begging for forgiveness was absolutely stomach churning. He's back to his old tricks by the way.

[morgan2]

1. bill orielly?

a priest in the church of george w bush?

[bluestateguy]

2. Jack Van Impe

who called on the Democrats to refrain from running a presidential candidate in 2004 in the name of preserving the unity of the county.

[jus_the_facts]

11. I agree Impe has been callin' for the end o'the world for decades....

....he's twisted current events into Armageddon for too long...but Pat and Jerry are RIGHT up there amongst THE most repugnant too! :puke:

[Archae]

16. Van Impe is nuts.

He's obsessed with "the endtimes."

Any and every world event becomes his latest "sign of the endtimes."

(News report of a natural disaster somewhere)
Van Impe-"It's just the latest sign of Jesus' second coming! In (fill in the blank vague Bilical verse) it says that our Lord..." :crazy:

[Faygo Kid]

13. No kidding. Got a link for that charge?

I always found him and Rexella kind of a hoot. Didn't know about this. Did he really say that? He is normally not so politically obtuse.

[jus_the_facts]

27. here's the link to his website....

...dunno if that quote is there but what is there is fuuuuucked up! :(
http://www.jvim.com/

[ironflange]

I really get the feeling that Jack van Impe. . .

despite being nuts, is totally sincere about what he's doing. What I mean is that he's not in it for the money, like 99% of his colleagues, but feels he really has a message to bring. That, however, doesn't make him and Rexella any less droll to this unwashed heathern.

[w13rd0]

3. Tilton

the guy makes my skin crawl

[historian]

4. tilton?

Havent heard of him - who is he pls?

[DemoVet]

10. Dial up Google and type "Pastor Gas" in the search window....

it's a riot!

[Kazak]

19. I actually get a kick out of watching Bob Tilton...

he's a laugh riot!

[iverglas]

43. Bob Tilton

My former co-vivant, who lived with me in Canada for a while, was a Texan, and had told me about Tilton. I didn't get to see him on the teevee until we visited down there.

Then one night a couple of years later I fell asleep on the couch with the TV still on, on a kinda two-bit small-town channel (that shows Star Treks late at night). I assume it went off the air to a test pattern ... and then at 5 a.m. I was shocked onto the floor by the sight and sound of what I first thought was Satan screeching at me from the screen. Fortunately, I recognized the face and shtick from my trip to Dallas -- even though he'd obviously had a lot of cosmetic surgery to make the eyebrows more Vulcan-like and the features more all-round ferrety -- and immediately realized it was just Bob.

One o' those famous USAmerican investigative TV journalist types dug deep in his garbage a few years ago and found heaps of bags full of all the unread letters from people who thought he'd been praying over them ... minus the cheques, money orders and cash, I assume.

Me, I like Swaggart. I figure that if you fell asleep while he was babbling, you could learn to speak in tongues by subliminal suggestion.

Excuse me, which way is the bus station?
Mohabbada boshabbada!

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[aquaman]

70. My friends and I used to catch a buzz.......

and watch this guy. What a damn fool. If Hell exists, there is a special room for this moron.

[mlawson]

50. Didn't he admit years ago that he is a scam??

I am certain I saw him once being interviewed, in which case he was laughing about what he does, how he started imitating evangelists while in college, etc. YET, he continues, and undoubtedly viewers send him plenty of money.

"Duhhhh", is wallowing in understatement.

[anarchy1999]

78. "Electric Bob"

My experience in a local Dallas television studio afforded me a chance to see a doctored montage of Tilton's greatest "spiritual explosions"...all set to fake farting noises. It was side-splitting. When he grimaced, a squeaker would sneak out. When he ran from set to set, a squishy fart sound would echo every footstep. I cried the first time I saw it. He is a laughingstock in Dallas.

[MichaelHarris]

5. my vote

George Bush

[JasonDeter]

12. I agree. He's the only one forced down America's throat.

The others mentioned I turn off.

[Octafish]

6. Pat Robertson, Deserter and Liquor Officer

As a US Marine Lieutenant, his US Senator daddy got him off the troop ship en route to the fighting in Korea:

http://www.schlatter.org/liquor_officer.htm

As a TV preacher, he used the money to run for President:

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/pat-robertson/

He used the money he raised by preaching the Word to buy into gold and diamond mines... in Africa.

http://www.religiousconceit.com/Robertson/

PS: Sorry I can't post more links to this gold-plated turd of the BFEE. I will after I get back from re-primering the Jeep.

[Wapsie B]

7. James Dobson.

I know he's a shrink by trade and not a preacher, but he does his evangelizing nontheless. His Focus on the Family organization routinely rips off mainstream churches each year for what is a thinly-disguised PAC for the gop. Plus his PHD lets him have that thin veneer of legitimacy when talking about the wingnuts. He is the equal to Pat & Jerry.

[Archae]

8. Falwell

Jerry Falwell, hands down.

He began his career using his pulpit to defend racism and segregation, using Biblical verses.
His church didn't let blacks join until 1970, and they were kept in their own little section for almost a decade.

He's made himself a fortune, and has always refused to open his financial records.

During the 1990's he used his TV ministry to sell that slander video, "The Clinton Chronicles," and when confronted about that, he would just make excuses.

He called a church that actually accepted gays a "church of evil," then lied about saying that until finally in court, his own words in a recording of the sermon where he said it was heard.
Even then he said it "was of no consequence."

On 9-13-2001, he blamed the ACLU, Pagans, atheists, etc. for 9-11.

Hollywood has never come up with a better caricature of a smarmy, self-righteous prophet for profit, then Falwell.

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/jerry-falwell/

[Ilsa]

17. I'll second that, although FRANKLIN GRAHAM

comes close to being as repugnant and hypocritical as they come.

Graham is taking over his father's ministry after getting his rocks off on boozing and chasing babes for the last few decades. Yep, he finally saw the light after having been blessed with the time and money to do whatever the hell he wanted, godly or not. I liked him better as a heathen.

[ironflange]

31. Repugnant is an apt description

His organization is behind all those shoeboxes that school kids fill every Xmas. My kids did a couple, many years ago, before I learned that they add religious propaganda to each box before handing them out. We now make a donation every Xmas to a genuine relief organization such as Oxfam. I've never been sure that kids in poor countries really need to be reminded of how well our kids have it here, what with giving them photos of ourselves and trinkets and goodies we can easily spare. All right, rant over.

[ironflange]

32. oops

had to move this post, attached it to the wrong message.

[SharonAnn]

68. The light he saw was MONEY! He figured out that he could get

lots more money in the "preaching" business than any other line of work.

The man's a real oily loser.

[lumpy]

54. I could be wrong

but wasn't Falwell indicted for tax evasion some years back?
All of the money for prayers and pass the plate preachers are the slimiest of con artists but they still rock on preying on people's emotion.

[DrWeird]

9. The Pink Hair Lady.

I had to delete that channel from my TV. Retched every time I saw her.

[MisterP]

21. Jan Crouch

it's a nightmare to watch her pancake makeup liquefy as she kneels before the bloated Rococo table, croaking out obscenely as mascara blots on the white shag carpet, or sitting on giant gold thrones with her theocratic husband, begging for DONATIONS

[readmylips]

25. Is that the lady with 500 lbs of hair?....

What the hell is that? Is she represents christians, I'd rather be in hell. The biggest whore is tammy faye baker, whatever her other names are. That tramp should have served many years in prison doing hard time. I guess, God gave her cancer...good karma tammy.

[misanthrope]

14. Mel Gibson

He's easily the most transparent.

[plumbnsquare]

15. How about

the Crystal Cathedral's Robert Schuller? I don't trust anyone who smiles that much.

[Az]

18. Peter Popoff

Though Jack Van Impe runs a close second(he lives local to me). Van Impe does not con sick old ladies out of their money for false hope.

Peter Popoff was a televangelist several years ago that had a faith healing act. He would appear to know who was ill with what disease. He claimed to be know this through god. He would then "heal" these people.

James (the Amazing) Randi took a radio reciever to one of Peter's shows. What he found was his wife broadcasting information about various patrons that had been collected when they arrived. Peter had a hidden ear phone that he would listen through and be guided to specific people in this way. Then with a variety of other tricks would appear to heal them. Thus lifted with false hope they would trundle off, stop seeing their doctors, send Peter more money, and die.

After Randi blew his act he went underground for a time. But Peter is back now last I heard. He is playing the same old games. Conning the same people. Unfortunately for skeptics we cannot be there all the time to protect people from these chalatans. We keep knocking them down. They just wait for a new audience and start again.

The Steve Martin movie Leap of Faith was based on Peter Popoff.

[ironflange]

30. Yes, Popoff is still around

And up to his old tricks. That guy really makes my skin crawl.

[MisterP]

20. it might be Dobson, but it's

the CROUCHES who give nightmares!

[Hotdiggitydog]

22. John Hagee is pretty disgusting, too.

Watch him for a few minutes sometime.

[newyawker99]

35. Hi Hotdiggitydog!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[mike1963]

23. Jerry Foulball.

I would gladly put a ------ in his ----.
:grr:

[readmylips]

24. Benny Hahnna(?)...guy with nuru jacket...

Benny is a big-time crook. I also dislike that old lady with the many Diana Ross dresses, sitting on that old chair. Why do they all use a gold chair? What's with that. Wasn't God humble?

[Octafish]

34. Benny Hinn. A fine charlatan.

About 15 years ago his hair was really big. The guy starred in an all-star holiday Pass The Loot show with the rest of the hypocritic oafs. The short of it is these preachers all fancy themselves sinners, I mean singers and so they burst out in a PTL version of "Bust a Move." I kid you not.

[readmylips]

26. How about...that guy from that Univ All Repigs love...

he's often on tv with larry 7wives king.

[Bozita]

28. Scott McClellan - Church of WH Daily Briefings

[woofless]

29. In order to form an opinion

much less a comparison, I would have to watch several of them.

THAT ain't gonna' happen.

[ironflange]

33. Ernest Angley

http://www.ernestangley.org/

I can remember Mrs. Ironflange and I watching his show twenty years ago, rolling on the floor laughing 'til it hurt. He's the guy who would hold his healing hand up to the camera and encourage you at home to press your afflicted body part against the TV screen. HAHAHAHAHA! I believe it's him who John Byner used to imitate on that crazy TV show 'Bizarre;' I remember Byner as the faith healing car mechanic.

[Rockholm]

36. I Remeber Ernest Angely!!!!

Wow, FINALLY, someone who does! My friends all think I am nuts when I start imitating him. Remeber, he would have some deaf child come out of the audience, then he would rub the kids ears and head, then holding the ears, say "Evil Spirits Come OUT!" The kid would then look at him all dumb and then Ernest would say "Jesus" The kid would then go..."Je-Huz" Back and forth the two would go saying "Jesus" "JeHuz" and then kid was then healed! It was beautiful! Thanks for the memories!

[iverglas]

44. and if you don't fall over the first time he punches you in the head

... he'll just punch you again. I think the smarter people in the audience figure out that the best thing to do is to collapse in rapture and gratitude after the first smack.

I love how he wears those looong suit jackets to make his torso look like a taller person's on camera. And the toupée ... whew.


And now, anybody remember Garner Ted Armstrong and the World Tomorrow? When I was in first year university back at the end of the 60s, some anonymous well-wisher subscribed me to the print production, The Plain Truth. I suspected it was the residence house mother, whom I had suggested go to hell when she tried to make me follow their sexist stupid rules ...

.

[MacCovern]

37. Angley is on TV in Atlanta

and he's on TV at a primo time: 11:00 am Sunday.

Angley is comical in some ways, but I actually believe he is
sincere. His late wife was nicknamed: Angel. That's right
Angel Angley.

[Rockholm]

38. Wow, Still On?

He must be getting petty old at this point. I used to watch him as a kid while getting ready to go to church on Sundays. I thought it was a pretty harmless show. I don't remember him ever preaching, though. Did he?

[ironflange]

57. Yes, now that you mention it

He's more like Jack van Impe: nutty but sincere. He's a step up from guys like Popoff.

[ikojo]

72. KNLC TV Channel 24 shows Ernest Angley in St Louis

About a decade or so ago my friends and I would watch him before watching SNL. The thing that struck us was that Angley has no neck. None.

[mitchum]

39. So many hucksters, so little time

ALL OF THEM

[snippy]

40. Bush.

[DemoVet]

41. Click on these two links to some Robert Tilton videos...

http://www.weirdcrap.com/tilton/gods_will.mpeg
http://www.weirdcrap.com/tilton/gods_will2.mpeg

The second might take a little while to load (39 megs) but if you have the time it's worth it.

[thebigidea]

42. he's the most ENTERTAINING tv preacher

for some reason, I'd love to meet him and "talk shop" - he strikes me as a complete carny-style huckster.

SHOUT HOSANNA! HADABOSOY!

[LTR]

45. There are a whole bunch of bible bangers who are appalling human beings

Falwell
Robertson
Wildmon
Dobson

The list goes on.

But there is one guy that is a total riot. Totally entertaining. And that man is Dr. Gene Scott:

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/dr-gene-scott/

Utterly entertaining!

[FizzFuzz]

60. Dr Gene!

Wow I remember seeing him ages ago; I always wondered what is UP with him? But he was on so late at night, all I remember is that he seemed real smart but didn't make much sense, lol

P.S. I love that delete Bush window!

[Athletic Grrl]

62. Poor, poor Rebecca DeMornay.

Dr. Gene is a NUT.

[HiramAbiff]

46. Franklin Graham

No question.

[OnceBlind]

48. Hmmmm....

I don't think he is all that bad, to tell you the truth.

I know he was once a real heathen, though.

[Ilsa]

49. He's right up there with Falwell for me, also.

I liked him better as a heathen vs a hypocrite.

[asthmaticeog]

65. You've got yourself...

... a BRILLIANT screen name, HiramAbiff.

Welcome to DU.

[OnceBlind]

47. Toughie here....

but I would have to say Benny Hinn!

Joel Osteen bothers me, too, in a different way.

[Malva Zebrina]

51. Sometimes I am really revolted by the Pope

Does that count?

[leesa]

52. Billy Graham is the most insidious viper. He is the one who gives

the best impersonation of a man of God therefore he is the most dangerous. The rest look and act like used car dealers.
Lovely Billy...the one who recommended blowing up dams in Viet Nam and murdering a million people.

[mlawson]

55. But he opposes homophobia.

He has several times. He has criticized robertson and foulwell, for it. He doesn't preach hate, like many of them do.

I can't defend him on Vietnam. He did get caught up with Nixon, but regretted it later.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

61. Graham has been anti-semitic but Nixon shocked even him. n/t

[leesa]

64. Exactly my point. Remember he is Bush's mentor.

He cons many, many people and is a major thrust in this fake Christian movement.

[mopaul]

53. Dig this poem by Carl Sandburg about religious blowhards

http://www.carl-sandburg.com/to_a_contemporary_bunkshooter.htm

[LibDemAlways]

56. I don't know her name, but she's the one

who totters around on stage in high heels looking like she just swallowed a bottle of caster oil.

Choice number two - Gene Scott - one scary-looking dude.

Benny Hinn is just laughable. One of my all time favorite DU posts was the guy who said if the chimp found himself out of a job, he might consider becoming a "catcher" for Benny Hinn.

[Kool Kitty]

58. Oh, geez-

they're all so repulsive, do I have to pick ONE? :think:

[masshole]

59. is there such a thing

as a non-revolting TV evangelist?

[Dr Fate]

63. Ralph Reed. n/t

n/t

[freeforall]

66. George W. Bush n/t

[Razoor]

67. they are several

they are several that I can think of

Robert Tilton my grandma got caught up in his little scam

Jan Crouch I cant stand her. she has like a 200 pound wig and puts on makeup with a trowel ewww. she has real hair but yet she still wants to wear a pink wig my friend who used to watch Trinity broadcasting network told me one time.also cant stand her husband Paul crouch. heard he has several mansions from the money he makes from TBN.
Jerry Falwell seen him on cnn lately :puke:
pat robertson :puke: cant stand him or the 700 club
John Hagee he is freaky.
thats all I can think of I cant stand to watch TBN but I dont watch it though.
what I find funny is the tv evangelists that hold huge meetings and were they supposedly "heal" someone.

[Sugarbleus]

69. I like Jimmy Swaggart's music but he is part of the whole "movement"

Who do I dislike the most? There are just too many TV fundies to mention. They are all revolting. I like Billy Graham Sr.even though he is, technically, a fundie. I deplore Pat Robertson and Fawell the most, I guess.
Frankly, I almost never watch TV unless it's the news. Moreover,I stopped watching TV gurus a very long time ago.

[pstokely]

71. D. James Kennedy

nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

73. How soon we forget...

JIM AND TAMMY FAYE BAKKER! (Remember the PTL Club? Heritage USA? Jessica Hahn? Massive Makeup? {Tammy Faye, not Jim...})
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/jim-bakker/

[booradleyjr]

74. Bakker circa 1980-81

I came home from classes one afternoon and flipped on the TV to see Jim & Tammy Faye acting all serious and weeping that they knew the end times were upon us at this very moment and that the world was going to be destroyed in the NEXT FEW DAYS.

[Nobody]

75. It's award time!!!!

And now the badges of shame to be handed out. There's just so many hypocrites to choose from.

Jimmy Swaggart: Crocodile tears award, for castigating unfaitful spouses and weeping when caught with a prostitute.

Tammy Bakker: The Medusa award, for wearing so much makeup it would make even Medusa presentable. It was fun to watch her become moved to tears by the first song played on their show. It would leave ruts in the makeup. Think unplowed alleyways and tire tracks.

Jim Bakker: The Pass The Loot award, for gold toilet seats and his statement that televangelists deserve to travel first class through life. (apparently the rest of us should pay for their tickets and be happy with traveling steerage)

James Dobson: The Transexual Award. For an audio tape entitled (this is NOT a joke) "To Be A Woman", The intro on the inside cover of the package said that his expertise comes from having a mother, sisters, and other female family members. I challenge anyone to prove that they DON'T have these so-called credentials. And what of his expertise on being a woman? It's to justify the "Man is the head of the family and the woman must be subject to him in all ways" steaming pile. Gotta break it to you, I know more about being a woman than you do, Jimmy boy. I AM a woman.

Pat Robertson: The Thor Award. Thor, Norse God of Thunder, could toss around lightning bolts. Pat Robertson could divert hurricanes to veer away from wealthy areas and slam into more densely populated poorer areas. He boasted about diverting the hurricane, but left out the truth about where it did hit.

Oral Roberts: The 8 million Dollar Man Award. Oral is the one who used as his pitch for raising money: If I don't raise 8 million dollars by X date, the lord will call me home. I'd have liked to have seen his bluff called, but unfortunately, he did raise the 8 million dollars. Ozzie Osbourne sent in $1 with a letter about how he hoped that that was all he'd get.

There may be more, but this is all I can think of for now.

On edit: Added Oral Roberts

[BiggJawn]

76. I gotta pick ONE????

Can't be done. They're ALL crooked bastards. The only "honest" ones I ever knew of were Lester Sumrall, and he's dead, and Gene Scott, who tells you up front that he's gonna buy horses with the money you send him...

Richard Roberts-crook. Gene Scott said it best "The 'Power' is not handed down from father to son, like Real Estate..." And Roberts has a LOT of Real Estate.

Rod Parsely-Crook who got in a fist fight with his builder because Rod tried to stiff him on part of the bill for his dad's 2-megabuck house.Has a multi-megabuck empire on the east side of Columbus OH.

Jimmy Swagart- "Ah. Have. SINNNED Agin' You!"

Jim Bakker-Jessica Hann.

Hal Lindsey-"Send me some money TODAY! We might not be here tomorrow!"

The Van Impes.

Bob "The Farting Evangelist" Tilton-Crawling around on all those prayer requests every day gave him ink poisoning, and he had to get plastic surgery around his eyes to fix the damage.

Benny Hinn, Ken Copeland, Dee-James Kennedy, the whole lot of them.

[anti-NAFTA]

77. Van Impe's WIFE

She's such a superficial dolt. "Ugh the Democrats are spreading hate against our Dear Leader."

I also HATE Benny Hinn. He's an Indian (from India) who sells out his roots for money.

Evangelists should be dragged to death on the back of a pickup truck like they did to that Byrd guy.

[philosophie_en_rose]

79. Jan Crouch!

The most evil televangelists are Dobson, Falwell, Robertson, and others.

However, Jan Crouch is by far the most revolting.

[Hammie]

80. WTF?

If you find them revolting why do you watch? I find all those guys revolting. I simply don't watch. It's easy, you just press the button on the remote, and voila they're gone.

[The Zanti Regent]

81. ALL OF THEM

All of them make me sick