Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“By the 1990s, there was almost universal antipathy for the TV preacher. Most were found either to be frauds, philanderers, or both. They did a good job of preying on the gullible and the desperate. They took advantage of innocent people, and yet people like my grandmother would argue that these preachers, despite their sins, ‘brought a lot of people to the Lord.’ My grandmother was no dummy, so maybe she was right. Me? I doubt God uses snake-oil salesmen as instruments of His will. … Even if you still think there are some earnest televangelists out there with good hearts, or that God can work miracles, I hope you’ll agree that when it comes to the secular religion known as politics, a lot of people have replaced God with government. Politicians are perhaps the worst form of televangelists.” (09/08/25)