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yellowcanine

(35,692 posts)
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 11:06 AM Aug 2020

Maybe Jimmy Swaggert will swoop in to "save" Jerry Falwell Jr.'s "ministry."

Like he did back in the day in collaboration with Jerry Falwell Sr. to go after Jim Bakker.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-25-mn-97-story.html

Longstanding differences between television evangelists Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, the type of conflicts in evangelistic circles normally kept out of public view, erupted Tuesday into internecine warfare involving many of America’s brand-name preachers.

Swaggart said Tuesday that he had forewarned his denomination against being “dragged through the mud” by Bakker’s scandal-touched PTL ministries, but he denied a charge that he was planning a takeover of the $172-million evangelistic empire Bakker relinquished to the Rev. Jerry Falwell last week.

Swaggert, a classic Pentecostal preacher with strict views of personal sanctity and doctrine, said he was hoping to minister to Bakker, who last Thursday confessed to a sexual encounter in 1980 and a payoff to keep the incident quiet.


The notion of Swaggert "ministering" to Jim Bakker just raises all kinds of horrifying images.
Irony is totally dead and the fundy Jebus says movement just keeps on sleazing and oozing.

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Maybe Jimmy Swaggert will swoop in to "save" Jerry Falwell Jr.'s "ministry." (Original Post) yellowcanine Aug 2020 OP
Jerry Fallwell, Jr. is a "university" president. phylny Aug 2020 #1
The fundys have a broader view of "ministry" which could include a university. yellowcanine Aug 2020 #4
Not compatible. Jimmy likes female prostitutes, not pool boys. keithbvadu2 Aug 2020 #2
Don't see why not. Falwell's church and university owns at least half of the city of Lynchburg. no_hypocrisy Aug 2020 #3

yellowcanine

(35,692 posts)
4. The fundys have a broader view of "ministry" which could include a university.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 12:01 PM
Aug 2020

Calling something a ministry puts in a special place which puts it above mere mortal standards.

keithbvadu2

(36,622 posts)
2. Not compatible. Jimmy likes female prostitutes, not pool boys.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 11:19 AM
Aug 2020

Not compatible.

Jimmy likes female prostitutes, not pool boys.

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