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speaking of Swaggart and Bakker...

Jim Bakker had his “problems” and few were as verbal about it that Jimmy Swaggart...

Swaggart railed againt Jim Bakker with a “righteous” vengengence...week after week...and many of the Christians got behind him repeating in churches in whispers what was said...

then after the Bakkers were destroyed it was discovered that Swaggart was not slow to have his own little adulterous affairs picking up prostitutes for one night stands in his car etc...

and so Swaggart breaks down on his TV show and cries like a baby (somewhat like Beck but a bit more finesse)

and a whole lot of Christians were turned off from Christianity...Swaggart had a huge following on TV and at his Christian university in Louisianna for years..

Funny thing about Jimmy Swaggart...he was 1 of 3 boy cousins who were all taught to play the piano by the same Christian aunt or grandmother...

Jerry Lee Lewis became a successful rock star playing piano but he fooled around with and married a 13 year old girl...

Mickey Gilley played piano in his own western saloon complete with a barrel bull...and women...

the only one who seemed to keep to his very deep Christian roots was Jimmy Swaggart and so he did seem to for many years playing the piano and singing his own songs and preaching the gospel...

and so Jimmy Swaggart was the fair haired boy of the family for many years...decades...

Then in the mid 1980s came the Bakker fiasco in charlotte, NC and Jimmy came out and roundly condemned the unfortunate Bakkers who found their friends and support evaporated overnight, many afraid to stay due to Swaggarts longoing condemnations...

Then in the summer of 1987 it all came out about Swaggart and his extra women...I’ll always remember being told of the news just breaking on the radio...We were in Daytona Beach, FL witnessing on the beach there when one of the local Christians had heard it as they drove down...

Jim Bakker went to prison and his wife Tammy Faye divorced him and remarried...

I followed the Bakkers story for a while and was sorry for them..but I was disgusted with Swaggart so how he faired I could care less...

and so now we have much the same situation with Trump and Cruz...

What’s that saying ??? oh yes...

those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones...

and then theres what God has to say...no not one of your Mormon gods Glennie...The God of the Christian Bible...

Judge not so you wont be judged yourself...