Jim Bakker was a smarmy, sex-scandal embroiled, 1980s TV evangelist fraudster and ex-con who fleeced his followers for decades with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker.  He was one of the many TV evangelist fraudsters in the 1980s.  It was the cool thing in the 1980s — shoulder pads and being a TV evangelist fraudster.

One day, the feds caught up with Bakker and he cried.

And he later went to trial and was found guilty.

And Tammy left him.  And he did his time.  And then he admitted he was wrong in a book with a very unimaginative title.

And then he took a long road to recovery.  So I hope he’s not out there doing that televangelist huckstering.

Naaah.  He’s just selling buckets of potato soup to elderly people so they will have food to eat when the Lord comes and smites the world for all the abortions and gay marrying we’re doing.

P.S.  The son of Jim and Tammy is in the religion biz as well.  But he’s actually kinda awesome.