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Part Two: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker

Behind the Bastards

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The Black Christian Community Is Not Just Forgiving

Baker's sermons and ideas were just cribbed from more original thinkers people like oral Roberts it was hard for him to come with much on his own because Jim had dropped out of Bible college and never quite finished reading the Bible. It would seem to me that this would be a bad thing to reveal after you've spent 30 years as an expert on Christianity but Baker leaned into this successfully and he flipped it into a positive so now he could start claiming that he'd learned the Bible in prison. "I don't know if guys like Jim Baker are grifting on easy mode or if he's just that good it's impossible for me to really tell um but it works"

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