Jim Bakker, building a Christian community in Missouri, "NASA's pick for safest place to live"

[Miles Archer]

[Raster]

1. Wonder if he'll be building an amusement park and sell timeshares...

...Oh look, he's found a new "Tammy Faye."

[RoBear]

2. Yet another reason

to stay the hell out of Missouri!

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Great! Just what we need in MO, more nuts...

From a show me boy, LEAVE!

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Does he know about the Missouri earthquakes of 1811-1812

It might not be so safe as he thinks.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Have you ever read "On Shaky Ground" by John Nance?

The best book ever about earthquakes. It has several chapters on the New Madrid Quakes. OMG!

Did I mention it's the best book ever about earthquakes?

This is one of the several topics I'm obsessed about. The first time I read it was on the exact 25th anniversary of the Great Alaskan Quake of 1964, which I remember quite well. The first four or five chapters are about that quake.

I'd bought a paperback edition of the book, and it was crumbling and falling apart, so I decided to re-purchase it it hardback. I'd ordered it on Amazon and the day it was supposed to arrive I awoke to NPR reporting a massive quake in Japan. Huh? Wasn't there such a quake yesterday? Yes, there was, but this was a new quake, the one that took out Fukushima. That morning, after listening to NPR, I got up and collected my local newspaper. It was the morning of March 11, 2011, and on my front door was the new copy of "On Shaky Ground" that I'd ordered a few days earlier. Wonderful, if somewhat creepy coincidence.

And creepy coincidences aside, On Shaky Ground is simply the very best earthquake book ever. Its earthquake science is perfect. It's only slightly outdated because of various earthquake events since its publication, but its precise science is unchanged.

[rusty quoin]

5. It is an amazing thing, Christian forgiveness. It is a powerful thing.

After what he did in the 80s when he created the empire he did, and why he did it was all about enriching himself, they have forgiven him and send him money again.

Some call it powerfully stupid.

[RockRaven]

6. There are all different kinds of suckers

and I know they come in every flavor of belief/woo, but damn if Jim Bakker doesn't give Christians a bad rep as credulous morons.

[Sophia4]

7. St. Louis Missouri murder rate: 59.8 per 100,000 people

Kansas City, Missouri murder rate: 23 per 100,000 people

"Murder" includes non-negligent manslaughter.

Los Angeles: 7 per 100,000 people

New York City: 3.4 per 100,000 people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

Certainly not all that safe.

[shanny]

8. Nope. Per NASA that honor goes to Storrs CT. My aunt lives there and I remember

when the story came out.

Srsly? Aren't there tornados in MO?

[Blue Owl]

9. Do I get a free bucket if I sign up???

n/t

[Archae]

10. He's selling bottled water at $150.

[pecosbob]

11. "NASA's pick for safest place to live"

Unless you work in the governor's office...

[justhanginon]

15. Or the governor's basement!

[gordianot]

13. Prison did not help Baker, wonder what the terms were for his release?

My guess he will settle in Southwest Missouri with the Christian Taliban.

[tanyev]

14. Republic of Gilead?

[Collimator]

16. NASA's Pick?

Since when would a true Bible believer take NASA's word on anything? Find backing for your decision in the Bible or shut up Bakker.

In the meantime, can someone pull a verse or two from the darkheart of the Bible to condemn Bakker? Somebody could sell nice, well-balanced stones to execute the guy for heresy or divination or whatever. They could make a killing. (pun intended)