Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2020-05-05
Books mentioned on Part One: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker
Robert is joined by Vic Berger to discuss Televangelist, Jim Bakker. FOOTNOTES: PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire Touching Empathy The “Real” Reason Televangelist Jim Bakker Went to Jail What happened to Tammy Faye Bakker after the PTL scandal?
Robert Evans discussed Move that Mountain by Jim Bakker and others, PTL by John Wigger, and The Big Three Mountain-movers by Jim Bakker and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Move that Mountain
Discussed“In his 1976 autobiography, Move That Mountain, which is like the first of so many autobiographies, this guy's written way more than a person should, Jim describes how, quote, "Mom and dad considered me so fragile that they didn't allow my brothers and sisters to even breathe on me. As a result, during his childhood, he never experienced the sensation”
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PTL
Discussed“So, one of my sources for this episode was the exhaustively written book ptl, the rise and fall of Jim and Tammy Fay Baker's Evangelical Empire by John Wigger.”
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The Big Three Mountain-movers
Discussed“At the end of 1977, he wrote a short book titled The Big Three Mountain Movers. Now, it was angled as a book of like biblical financial advice and the like. He told his flock that God wanted them to have money and would provide it, but they had to provide God with testaments of faith first.”
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