Reply #6: I think that depends more on who the tv preacher is, really --- [View All]

[elehhhhna]

99% of them are showboating predators & failed actors.

At least Jim & Tammy sold timeshares. For this, Jim Bakker went to jail. Falwell orchestrated the whole thing.

On the other hand, TV preachers DO serve a vast audience, and expose millions of us to ideas we may not hear elsewhere.

My brother&sister-in-law used to have Jim & Tammy PARTIES on Friday nights--the show came on around 10--back in the early 80's (shout out to Schaumburg, Illinois!) It was so inadvertently funny & high-camp that we became cultish slaves to it.

Here's the thing--all that preaching actually got to us. Tammy Faye, all riled up, delivering her special seminar to female prison inmates, was shockingly "real". She MEANT it. They GOT it. Hell, I got it.

Since then I've become a connoisseur of TV Preaching--Benny Hinn, Robert Tilton, the tongue-speakin' Dallas preacher,( I SWEAR the "tongue he spoke in was Polish--every other word sounded like "Kielbasa") Jan with the pink hair (!), etc.

IMO, the only goodies out there today are Joyce Meyer and MAYBE Joel Osteen. Maybe.