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...divine that sex was the apple that lured Jimmy Swaggart from his cushy Eden atop the garbage heap of televangelists. After all, Swaggart not only called his fellow philanderer Jim Bakker a cancer, but he also led the battle to coerce convenience stores into removing Playboy and Penthouse from their shelves...
...inhabitant of Baton Rouge, home to Swaggart's multi-million dollar estate, church and Bible College, I derive particular amusement and satisfaction from his fall. Swaggart represented the hypocrisy and hatred that arises from militant organized religion. The moral of his fevered sermons--often laden with anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic overtones--was to give more money to his ministry...
...sermon taped shortly before the scandal broke, Swaggart pleaded with his herd to send more money, claiming that Bakker's fall from grace was causing a drain on funds. He warned that Satan would find ways to thwart God's work. Obviously, Swaggart pays God's salary and He recently demanded a raise. But the Bakker sex scandal did not stop the flow of postal trucks arriving every day at Swaggart's complex, which has its very own zip code...
...Bakker's antics also did not have much of an effect on Swaggart's annual Thanksgiving revival. The long weekend of preaching and praying again drew thousands to Baton Rouge this year...
...family walked by. They wore matching Jimmy Swaggart Bible College sweatshirts. Go team...