TV preachers - who's the weirdest?

[LizW]

I'm flipping the channels and the winner right now is Joel Osteen. Creepy accent, strange facial expressions and gestures. Scariest thing is, he's preaching in a gigantic coloseum FULL of thousands of people. It looks like a rock concert, except everyone is sitting mesmerized. There's this big spinning gold world globe thing on the stage behind him.

I'm freaked out. :scared:

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. Jan Crouch, the pink-beehived monstrousity.

In undergraduate school, I had a roommate who watched Jan Crouch for some reason. Probably mesmerized by the beehive.

Jan Crouch looks like Tammy Faye Baker, if Tammy Faye had gone blind and started to apply pink car paint on her face.

For the most part, the Crouches do not seem as malicious as say Jerry Falwell, and they don't seem as greedy or manipulative as Benny Hinn. But they are the most horrifyingly stupid.

In one episode, Jan gave little white baby dolls to starving kids in Africa. white baby dolls. But not food or anything. :eyes:

[Crazy Dave]

11. White baby dolls and probably a message

"God only helps those who help themselves sweetie"

Reminds me of Barbara Bush donating about 2 million dollars to the New Orleans school district with the stipulation that the money could only be spent buying educational software that one of her nephews or somebody close in the family was selling. The schools are far behind from being rebuilt, no open schools, no students, no computers, but at least they got 2 million dollars worth of software.

[StellaBlue]

22. here she is!

[SKKY]

24. I'm going with Big Hair Lady as well...

...she freaks me out. She can't, I mean CAN NOT think her hair looks good. So, my question is this, "What's it purpose?" "What lives
in there?"

[hsher]

29. If only Jesus were her hairdresser, he would say...

"Honey, you're only supposed to use ONE wig at a time..."

[bumblebee1]

41. In the words of Austin Powers,

"She looks like a man, baby!!!" She looks more masculine than her husband.

[NC_Nurse]

32. She was my first thought too.

She looks like an possessed Easter bunny! :crazy:

[Neshanic]

40. Her crying jags meandering through the field. Epic strangeness.

[TheBaldyMan]

2. YouTube yesterday: preacher with a toilet seat round his neck and

threatening to shoot a piece of fruit with a pop-gun !

Total creationist and RW nut-job. Very, very strange.

on edit: Reverend Ricky the toilet-wearing fruit-threating 'Christian'.

[StellaBlue]

21. Reverend Ricky is from Austin, Texas

He's a piece of work. We used to watch him in college for kicks, even called in a couple of times to argue about feminism. He has a strange obsession with the Beatles. That's why he wears the toilet seat around his neck, because John Lennon did it onstage in Hamburg once. Sheesh. :eyes:

Haven't caught him in a long time... I think he is no longer on local access...

[Neshanic]

39. Saw the You Tube. That is beyond any description.

[Lethe]

45. i remember him from access cable

definitely cooky

[Initech]

43. What the fuck????

:yoiks:

[Archae]

3. Jack Van Impe and his wife.

They are both so laughingly stupid.

[jarab]

4. I second that choice. n/t

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[KT2000]

23. Agree!

Just caught them for the first time - holy cow - how weird can it get?

[youthere]

27. I'm with you..Jack and Rexella...

so fucked in the head it defies logic:



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[Dude_CalmDown]

5. Don't know the weirdest but here's my favorite one:

Click Me

[Dude_CalmDown]

6. One More:

Click Me

[Elidor]

15. I knew that was coming

And frankly, if you hadn't posted the farting preacher, I was going to have to do it myself. So thanks for saving me the trouble.

[Dude_CalmDown]

33. Well I don't post a lot but...

...I'm almost certain that of the 3 or 4 posts I've made in the last few months, at least 2 of them were videos of the farting preacher.

[Maestro]

18. Tilton was run out of Dallas

for being a crook. Now he is doing the same in Fla.

[jakefrep]

20. He wasn't run out of Dallas...

..his ass propelled him out (judging from that sort of gas).

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. I don't think he does much any more, but Ernest Angley...

:scared: El Creepo.... and to make things worse, he bought his mother a house one street up from my mom in the mid-80s... :yoiks: I don't think his mom is still around, but every once in a while, Mom would see Ernest and his very bad toupee over there... :P

[OnionPatch]

9. LOL

:rofl: We were thinking of the same guy! He was definitely the weirdest I've ever seen, hands down.

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. OMG....

:rofl: My mother worked at a Catholic college in the late 70s, and the monks there would turn on Ernest Angley on Sunday afternoons for entertainment. They'd pop popcorn and drink beer and laugh like hell at his antics.. :rofl: "Out, out! Evil spirit, OUTah.." :yoiks:

[Archae]

12. That freak is still around...

http://www.ernestangley.org/

[OnionPatch]

13. We used to put it on too

back in my "partying" days, on a Sunday morning after being up all night. It was just so entertaining that we would have a hard time choosing between that and Pee Wee's playhouse. :rofl:

But monks watching and laughing? Too much!!

[tokenlib]

30. We had a few beers "with" Ernest as well....

In the early eighties, we'd watch Ernest with a bit of spiritual enlightenment as well. Damn how I miss "put your hand on my hand on the television screen..it's a new form of the laying on of hands that Jesus gave to me.." or some such thing as the hand of Ernest filled the screen to offer healing from any demon you could imagine...

No one has interacted with the TV audience like he did---

[OnionPatch]

8. I haven't checked out those channels in a long, long time

That's just way too scary. Luckily, our remote doesn't surf in the way that you need to view each channel as you pass. So for years I haven't had to look at that kind of garbage (or Fox News, either) for even a second.

I remember back when I did channel-surf like that....there was a televangelist named Ernest Angley (or something like that) who did a very animated, ritual-like thing where he would slap the forehead of a "believer" and yell "Spirits, OOOOOOOOUUUUUTTTTTTTT!" with the "out" sounding like a howl.

We would roll on the floor watching it. Maybe we should have seen it as more of a harbinger of things to come and taken warning. :scared:

[Rockstone]

14. There's one who is a stand up comic, combined with preaching.

Think "Larry the Jesus Guy".

[Taverner]

16. Joel Osteen hands down

The man is not only scary, but also popular. His church is what used to be where the Houston Rockets played. They bought the spare basketball stadium.

At least enough people see Pat Robertson for the wild-eyed lunatic that he is.

[deucemagnet]

17. I can't believe nobody's posted the "Spirit of Truth" guy yet...

NSFW warning! This file should not be opened at work, around children, or near small, cute, fuzzy baby animals.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/07/spirit-of-truth.html

[China_cat]

19. Benny Hinn

[Burma Jones]

25. Ernest Angley

http://www.ernestangley.org/

[hsher]

26. Benny Hinn

Cobra hairstyle, evil gaze, evil "electric-touch" pinch...

[mwdem]

28. Jimmy Swaggert. I caught him this a.m. & he's still tearing up..

he's preaching about the Middle East, with a map behind him. Iran is bigger than Saudi Arabia on said map. Every time he points to Jerusalem, he starts to tear up. It's the whole Armageddon thing. :puke:

[bmbmd]

31. I used to love this guy.

http://www.drgenescott.org/docbio.htm

Came on late at night, very unorthodox, profane, chain-smoking, whcoks of white hair and a big old hat. They don't make 'em like that any more.

[Neshanic]

38. OMG!

[Maccagirl]

34. "Breakthrough"s Rod Parsley

He maybe only a Midwestern celeb, but I've never seen anyone sweat like he does...plus he's really political and great friends with Ken Blackwell and Ann Coulter. At his World Harvest Church here in central Ohio (on of those 9,000 seat megas) he once had a John Lennon mannequin writhing in hell to the tune of "Imagine". Nice guy.

[philosophie_en_rose]

35. I forgot to add James "I beat dachshunds to feel like a big man" Dobson.

He's not as weird looking as Jan Crouch, but he's certainly one of the weirdest assholes pretending to be mainstream.

[Initech]

42. Dont forget, he advocates child-rearing and thinks you should show your

weiner to your kids to advert homosexuality. :scared:

[Initech]

36. Osteen came to Anaheim last year

Did a sold-out show at the Pond and tickets were going for $300. To see a televangelist. I am not fucking kidding.

[Neshanic]

37. Creepy? Swaggert. Fabulously flamboyant, the Crouches, the gold standard.

Swaggert with the crying, and he's just plain wierd.

The Crouches, now THAT'S entertainment!

[GrpCaptMandrake]

44. Hagee? We've gotten into this list without Hagee?

I'm not going to give a link and help his web stats, but this dude is as evil as Benny Hinn, as sharp as Oral Roberts and as scaly as George Bush. Showed up at the U.N. to support Israel killing Lebanese children. What a man of God!