Jim Bakker, who built ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire, has died at 86

8 days ago by lechekaflan to c/news

Jim Bakker, who along with his then-wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died.

Ugh.

tooq 43 points 8 days ago

Good riddance. One less grifter grifting.

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Wytch 26 points 7 days ago

Reaper just working his way through the octos, leveling up for the final boss fight. This one's a doozy of a pos too

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Rothe 18 points 7 days ago

Why do these grifting ghouls almost always get so old? Is it the pure evil which keeps their rotting corpses alive?

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lechekaflan 15 points 7 days ago

Some, I believe, have medical teams paid on retainer.

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DagwoodIII 11 points 7 days ago

Best medical care money can buy, plus access an unlimited supply of acolytes to do their bidding.

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lemmyng 5 points 7 days ago

Spite (and tobs of access to meds) tends to keep people alive.

gestures at the White House

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hanrahan 3 points 7 days ago

better medical care then you

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phutatorius 16 points 7 days ago

May he burn in hell eternally.

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Zerlyna 11 points 7 days ago

Just in time for midterms. (I’m going to hell for that, aren’t I. )

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Murse 4 points 7 days ago

I’m going to hell for that, aren’t I.

You good if we make a quick pitstop in Valhalla on the way there? I wanna try their mead.

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eurodyne 10 points 7 days ago

Good

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oopsgodisdeadmybad 8 points 7 days ago

Excellent. Fuck this stupid cunt and his dumbass bonus buckets.

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inari 6 points 7 days ago

Lived too long

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prole 6 points 7 days ago

Good

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TryingToBeGood 4 points 7 days ago

I didn’t realize he was still alive.

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Professorozone 2 points 7 days ago

Same.

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EpeeGnome 4 points 7 days ago

He leaves behind a legacy of all the harm he caused to so many people.

To be fair to him, his water park was actually pretty good. I have some fun memories of going there as a kid, till they had to shut it down because it started falling apart fast enough that it wasn't worth repairing.

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collapse_already 3 points 7 days ago

Made his living scamming elderly fixed income nincompoops.

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captainlezbian 3 points 7 days ago

Hell yeah, it's just a shame he outlived his ex wife

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tacoplease 1 point 7 days ago

Flashback to when a consensual but illicit affair was enough to bring down a religious grifter.

Pedophilia, rape, and bestiality are the entrance qualifications for conservatives now.

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billwashere 1 point 7 days ago

TIL that Jim Baker hasn’t been dead for 20 years.

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Modern_medicine_isnt 1 point 7 days ago

RIH? rest in hell...

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Professorozone 1 point 7 days ago

My first professional job was in the same building where they had their ministry and from time to time someone would drive by and ask if they were there.

"Nope. And it took forever to get Tammy Faye's make-uo out of the place."

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