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Hemant Mehta writes at the Friendly Atheist: On today’s episode of The 700 Club, a woman wrote in to ask Pat Robertson why God allowed her 15-year-old son to die. Robertson, for some reason, decided to give her a very specific answer: God may have let your son die to prevent him from becoming an alcoholic or atheist later in …

Scamvangelist Pat Robertson today called for Trump to shut down Robert Mueller’s investigation and issue a blanket pardon for everybody touched by the Russia probe. Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Trump “can grant a pardon to everybody involved in this thing if he wants to,” Robertson said. “This whole thing has got to be shut down. He has …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: End Times prepper pastor Jim Bakker said on his television program today that the attacks on President Trump are a sign that the White Horse of the Apocalypse is galloping across America and that the wildfires and Hollywood sexual assault scandals are God’s judgment on California. “This is that white horse today, this …

“They sacrifice children at the highest levels in Hollywood. They drink blood of young kids. This is a fact. That is why the next thing to be exposed will be all the pedophilia that is going to come out of Hollywood and out of Washington, D.C. The human sacrifice and the cannibalism has been going on for years. Some of …

Bisexual scamvangelist Jim Bakker today declared that God will punish you for mocking him just because his prophecies about the end of the world haven’t come true. “God is speaking to his people. The only ones who probably aren’t talking to God these days are mean people in America, people who just are anti-Christ. If you don’t want to hear …

From a must-read cover story by Newsweek: For many decades, Trump was the sweaty embodiment of the Manhattan libertine—a Studio 54 denizen who ran a modeling agency as his personal Tinder, and laughingly told Howard Stern that his Vietnam was avoiding STDs when he was a swingin’ bachelor…and a swingin’ married man. He wasn’t known for his religious faith until …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: On “The 700 Club” today, televangelist Pat Robertson linked last night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas to a disrespect for President Trump, the national anthem and God. “Violence in the streets, ladies and gentlemen. Why is it happening?” he asked. “The fact that we have disrespect for authority; there is profound disrespect for …

Viral YouTube comedian Vic Berger’s Super Deluxe channel has posted a scary/funny supercut of Jim Bakker and his cast of scamvangelicals pitching his infamous food slop buckets, which Bakker helpfully points out can also be used as emergency toilets and as flotation devices during floods. BONUS: This clip also features completely insane “prophetess” Cindy Jacobs. Watch below.

Jim Bakker today declared that when the End Times come, the only thing to stop you from eating Grandma will be his food slop buckets. Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: “In perilous times, they do crazy things,” Bakker said, adding that he has “cried so much” over the destruction wrought on Houston by Hurricane Harvey. “I saw wonderful …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: On his program today, End Times prepper pastor Jim Bakker interviewed “White House correspondent” William Koenig about the new edition of his book, “Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel,” which asserts that all the major natural disasters and catastrophes that have struck America in recent decades have been God’s punishment …

Author John Wigger has a new book out titled PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire. From the lengthy review published by Christianity Today: Drawing on a wide range of interviews, newspaper reports, and court documents, Wigger expertly documents the larger-than-life transgressions that eventually brought the Bakkers and PTL tumbling down. Where to begin …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: During his interview with Jonathan Cahn this morning, End Times prepper pastor Jim Bakker suggested that he could be murdered for going out in public wearing a hat with a cross on it. Bakker went on to declare that “everything God’s ever spoke to me has come to pass” while fuming that society …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Starting last Thursday, right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau streamed a nightly series of videos on Periscope in which he commanded Hurricane Irma to change its projected path away from Florida, ordering the storm to dissipate and turn out into the Atlantic Ocean. That obviously did not happen, but that didn’t stop Wallnau from streaming …

Just as they did before Hurricane Harvey, a slew of scamvangelicals have issued last-minute prayers for God to command Hurricane Irma away from the United States. Here’s a few of them. Landon Schott: Father, we come to you in the name above every other name, the name of Jesus! We plead the powerful blood of Jesus over Florida and that …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway was interviewed by Pat Robertson on “The 700 Club” today, where she declared that President Trump’s most notable characteristic is his humility. Robertson kicked off the softball interview by asking Conway “what characteristic stands out in your mind” most about Trump, to which she replied that “it’s …

From the right wing Christian site Charisma News: Jonathan Cain—songwriter and keyboard player for the band Journey—revealed on The Jim Bakker Show the Christian roots of the band’s biggest hit. His father imparted some Christian wisdom to him, including the phrase “Don’t Stop Believing.” He shares his testimony and performs the song live in this clip. Cain is married to …

Scamvangelical Kenneth Copeland, who flits around the country speaking in tongues aboard his $20 million private jet, says that America will win the Afghanistan war now that God His Damn Self has put Donald Trump in charge. This, despite Copeland’s February 2016 declaration that Ted Cruz had been “anointed by God” to be president. Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing …

“Firefighter prophet” Mark Taylor, currently the darling of extremist Christian sites like World Net Daily and a regular on Jim Bakker’s show, who recently claimed that Trump has secretly imprisoned 3000 “elite pedophiles,” says that God His Damn Self visited him in a dream with instructions on how to permanently destroy the Democratic Party. Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing …

The Christian Post reports: Famed televangelist and host of “The 700 Club” Pat Robertson was hospitalized over the weekend following a fall while horseback riding. Physicians believe that the conservative Christian social commentator will “make a full recovery,” according to a statement released by the Christian Broadcasting Network, which Robertson founded. “Horseback riding is one of Robertson’s greatest passions and …

“If you wanted to destroy the Fox News, you really wanted to destroy them, what would you do? Well you would send some salacious material, ostensibly from one of their popular co-hosts or hosts and you’d send it out and then get it publicized and then you have some woman complain that she had gotten this salacious material from this …