
Part One: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker
Behind the Bastards
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The Pentecostal Church
About 4.5% of Americans today are Pentecostal and I don't think most foreigners or like city folks really know a whole lot about the Pentacostal church. Jim's grandfather Joe helped to found the central assembly of God a very hardcore PentecostAL church. As a child he was terrified by a three-foot-tall picture of a human eye that hung on the wall of his Sunday school room as he and the other children saying his eye is watching you you you oh my god He said that he left him with the impression that the big eye was always looking and he would get you if you were ever bad. Another cultural touchstone for Pentecostals
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