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More difficult than a pastor in a denomination that answers to a higher authority, where being credibly caught in a sex scandal would probably result in the revocation of his credentials. If an independent church has a board of elders, then it would fall on them to defrock and/or dismiss the...

You got the picture right, but not the televangelist. It was Jerry Falwell who took the infamous plunge: Falwell had taken over PTL Ministries from Bakker to keep it afloat while Bakker lay low after the Jessica Hahn sex scandal. But then Falwell had access to their books and found out how...

For September: Faust Part Two, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tomorrow the World, James Gow and Arnaud D'Usseau The Libation Bearers, Aeschylus The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov Sartoris, William Faulkner After That, the Dark, Andrew Klavan Anne of Avonlea, L. M. Montgomery Currently...

Ekklesian is the charter, and so far only, member of the "FFF He-Man Woman Haters Club."

Fraud and conspiracy. The PTL Club sold expensive "lifetime memberships" that included an annual stay in a luxury hotel at Heritage USA. But they had nowhere near the capacity for the tens of thousands of memberships they sold. Bakker pocketed several million dollars.

Doug Phillips and Vision Forum I've heard of. So this is big like Josh Harris repudiating I Kissed Dating Goodbye, appropriately scaled down for the fundy subculture.

I've heard of people teaching this stuff--generally the strong pro-courtship people--but never heard of the Botkins. Are they well-known in fundy circles?

Yeah, I believe I made mention of this at the time. This was about the time that Kenneth Copeland was declaring Coronavirus "over." They should've all gotten together at a prophecy conference or whatever and gotten their stories coordinated. Wasn't Bakker's "cure" just another colloidal silver...

Per Charisma, his death at 86 was announced by his wife Lori: https://mycharisma.com/news/jim-bakker-televangelist-and-ptl-founder-dies-at-86-wife-lori-bakker-announces/ Funny how this hagiography makes no mention of his scandals or prison time.

Sure we ought to be above all that. But total depravity. I'm not excusing it, only analyzing it.

He is a joke. As they say, it takes one to know one.

Joooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos!

Well, he's one up on me, then. I enjoy calling Internet feminists with bad arguments "toots."

The question posed was about his solution, not his attitude, so I was paying attention to the content. Upon a second view: The woman's attitude is not exactly exemplary; she interrupts him, throws blame at him, personally, for not protecting kids, and then finally dismisses him as a "white...

Basically, a girl asks him why he's concerned about abortions and not school shootings. He proposes stationing a couple of veterans at every school. Instead of being homeless, they have work, they've got some level of security screening, and they're proficient with weapons. Of course, the same...

The seven deadly sins thing is actually true, according to Sherwood Schwartz, the show's creator. The island being hell and Gilligan Satan, though, was just a fan theory. Gilligan - sloth (for always avoiding work) Skipper - wrath (always getting mad at Gilligan and swatting him with his hat)...

LOL. You carry quite the torch for Aryan boneheads, Herr Hamessiah.

Yes, I realize you and Ekklesian are of one mind. And you happen to be the one using it now.