Swaggart, Jim Baker, Eddie Long, Ted Haggard and the list goes on and on. I was awakened early one morning with this thought in my spirit. When all hell is breaking loose around them, when the enemy is attacking them left and right, when the powers and...

Schaeffer and other religious hucksters who saw that they could sell their endorsements. They flamed out in a tidal wave of revelations focusing on their sexual immorality and hypocrisy. I don’t think that would have done permanent damage to the...

And yes, it's also a matter of faith. I grew up in the first Golden Age of Religious Hypocrisy (we're currently living in the second), with Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart disgracing themselves because they loved pussy and skimming from the collection...

Less encouraging is the heavy “burn-out” factor Allen identifies, as members of these sects grow wearied or jaded by the incessant religious hysteria—how many of us can live like Jimmy Swaggart or Jerry Lee Lewis all our lives?—and drift away from the...

Less encouraging is the heavy “burn-out” factor Allen identifies, as members of these sects grow wearied or jaded by the incessant religious hysteria—how many of us can live like Jimmy Swaggart or Jerry Lee Lewis all our lives?—and drift away from the...

Roosevelt, liberals, the New Deal and, in his case, Jews. I decided to take them all on with a film and started writing one I called RELIGION -- hoping to savage these TV ministries much in the way Paddy Chayevsky savaged the Networks. And then -- one...