8: Envy - Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker vs. Jerry Falwell Pt 1

Seven Deadly Sinners

Rachael O'Brien

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker broke into television in the heyday, when no medium could rival the Christian ripoff off of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Their televangelist show thrived at appealing to the sensibilities of bible belt stay at home wives with kids. The ratings soared and so did the ministry donations leaving Jim and Tammy in control of more money than they'd ever even thought of... but they knew just how to spend it. They went as far as breaking ground on a half baked attempt at a Christian Disneyland before envy got the best of an opportunistic rival in the ministry game: Jerry Falwell; and he was seeking to banish them from God's stage forever. Sex, Drugs, and millions of stolen dollars are at the heart of this sordid Evangelical story. And it wasn't just the predatory sexual encounter he had with 19 year old Jessica Hahn that landed him in jail, it was a forensic accounting look into his fraudulent use of viewers donations. You'd think he'd spend his life repenting but no no, Jim Bakker is still to this day grifti-ng his way into vulnerable people's pockets selling end of times kits and Coronavirus cures.

SOURCES-
PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire -Book by John H. Wigger
Rightwingwatch.org
Wiki
Youtube
Charlotte Observer
Eyes of Tammy Faye Documentary
New York Times

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0:39.9	swagger and a prostitute to church leaders.
0:42.3	I have said against you, my lord.
0:45.0	Make a vow of faith of a thousand dollars.
0:48.0	This incident on top of the Jimmy Baker's...
0:50.0	Devil back off.
0:51.0	Kill the televangelism industry. Back off, Devil! back off. The TV. I'm on.
0:54.0	I look at you and I see money.
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1:00.0	To guide me. You're listening to
1:06.0	listening to seven deadly sinners.
1:20.6	Envy. Envy, like greed and lust is characterized by an insatiable desire. It can be described as a resentful coveting of the traits or possessions of someone else.
1:27.0	Envy is the emotion that's triggered when another person achieves what we want and we think they don't quite deserve.
1:37.4	We desire what they have or we wish they lacked it, which to me makes envy one of the weakest of the seven deadly
1:46.2	sins for I think it encompasses every single one of the sins into its envious self. Think about it. Greed, gluttony, lust. Those all make you want
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