[Morgana]

“Ohio televangelist ‘forced members to have vasectomies and abortions, told women to treat pregnancies as tumors and allowed children to be sexually abused’”

Gamecock...don’t know if Earnest Angley qualifies as Megachurch but I remember his tv ads so he’s not small affair.

[Oratam]

He rated mockery from none other than Robin Williams. He made the Big Time.

"Hee-yull!"

[Calvin Locke]

There used to be sect known as "The Shakers" that didn't believe in procreation.

They just had separate dorms for the two genders, without resorting to medical procedures.

They're not around any more, except as museum villages, and furniture styles, and wood working tools.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

I remember seeing him in the 1970s on TV. To me, he became the stereotypical televangelist huckster, with the HEAVY Southern (??) accent. Jokers like him gave Christians, and especially Pentecostals, a very bad name, opening the doors to ridicule of Christianity.

Angley’s ‘ministries’ had a 10AM Sunday spot on a local Ottawa TV station. As my dad would leave at 10:15AM for church, I usually only saw the intro to the show. I still remember it because he was so full of hyperbole, or something! (Angley’s smarmy delivery began something like: “Aynd the Lowerd brought me to a seashore and sayed to mee that the number of the gray-ins of saynd, these shall be the number that you sayve.”)

Having just seen a portion of a current broadcast of his on youtube, it appears that he is somewhat frugal, continuing to use the same toupee!

Here is a little skit from “Bizarre” that skewers two faith healers of that era: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuQ4SJWECBY&list=PLzX9SuWGTFAsSP581bkVvRq7zWxw—loi

[Gamecock]

Gamecock...don’t know if Earnest Angley qualifies as Megachurch but I remember his tv ads so he’s not small affair.

His "church" seats 5,500, so sure!

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[af_vet_1981]

Gamecock...don’t know if Earnest Angley qualifies as Megachurch but I remember his tv ads so he’s not small affair.

It seems to me the Protestants/Evangelicals have jurisdiction in this case. Angley is a native of Gaston County, North Carolina; in his early life he was raised a Baptist, and at the age of 18 he accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior.[1] In the early 1950s, traveling with their tent and camper, he and his wife arrived in Northeast Ohio as a traveling "salvation and healing" Pentecostal evangelist.