Apparently Resurrected, Fornicating Christian Conman Reverend Jim Bakker Returns

I do understand why people continue giving money to this adulterous criminal who tells them he is sent by God to save them: They're dumb Christian American Evangelists, like the criminal adulterous conman Donald Dumb they all love!

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Televangelist Jim Bakker Says He Needs A Million Bucks Or 'I'll Be Out On The Street'
Ed Mazza

Wed, May 7, 2025

 

By "saved", he means those idiots who give him money.

Televangelist Jim Bakker, who was at the heart of one of most notorious religious scandals of the 1980s, says he’s in desperate need of cash right now. [He hasn't bilked enough ignorant "faithful" so-called Christians out of their life savings, as he tells them “I guarantee you God’s going to do something ... God’s gonna bless you as you give. Case closed! The Art of the Con Deal.]

And if he doesn’t get $1 million, he will lose everything and be homeless.

“If everyone that watches this program will give $1,000, we’ll be able to pay our bills and stay on the air,” he said on his show on Tuesday. “Otherwise we got about another maybe a month.”

He said it’s not just his show that’s on the line.

“If they foreclose on this ministry, they will take my house too, so I’ll be on the street,” he said.

Bakker claimed he hasn’t taken a salary himself and has no money of his own.

“We have a big debt,” he said, saying an unnamed “they” has “taken millions of dollars from us.”

One of the show’s cohosts indicated the financial problems began in 2020, when Bakker was in trouble with a number of authorities for hawking “Silver Solution” during the COVID-19 pandemic. In one case, he reached a settlement with the Missouri attorney general that included restitution of $156,000.

Bakker at the time also used the threat of an impending bankruptcy to raise funds.

He said on Tuesday that those who give him money will reap other benefits.

“I guarantee you God’s going to do something,” he said, later adding: “God’s gonna bless you as you give, because when you give, you’re gonna receive.”

Bakker spent the 1980s turning his ministry into an empire that included a TV network and a resort. But it all came crashing down on him as he resigned amid a sex scandal and fraud allegations, the latter of which landed him in prison for four years.

Here he is in the 1980s admitting on TV that he had adulterous affairs with married women and prostitutes, right alongside his wife Tammy Fae whose tears streamed the mascara down her face. They built an air-conditioned kennel for the dozen dogs they owned, right next to their multi-million palace that was funded by the millions of imbecile Christians who attended their "church".

In more recent years, Bakker has fashioned himself as something of a doomsday prophet ― saying on Tuesday, for example, that we’re in the “end times” ― and sells food buckets and other “prepper” items on his show and website.

The 85-year-old has also had some health issues including a series of strokes in 2020 and a hospitalization last year.