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Originally Posted by CC1
I hope you are kidding. Do you actually think after his affair with that young girl and his criminal conviction for his timeshare scam that they would have "recovered"? I would like to think folks would not have been that stupid.
You did not have to be a Rhodes scholar to do the math and see that they had sold way more nights stay at their hotel than was physically possible.
I hated to see their fall because PTL was a much better Christian TV network than TBN. It had better programming in my opinon and instead of a little clique of the same performers actually aired some good concerts from the "barn", etc. I think they were doing a better job or bringing Christian entertainment to the masses.
Jim was so discredited the only "recovery" they would have made would have been like Swaggarts. Just a few die hard fans who would continue to follow them even if they personally witnessed adultery with a prostitute.
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CC1 not a Bakker fan nor apologist but I think the whole affair about the so-called fraud was bogus. Nearly every hotel, resort, airlines I know overbook. The folks who gave the money were NOT complaining. I personally think if Swaggart and Falwell hadn't opened all their business up for the world to see they would have recovered. The adultery would have been forgiven and PTL would have survivied. His lawyer was an old personal friend that the case was over his head he slept through a lot of it.
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