Can any nutjob get a TV show?

I was just flipping through the channels and I came across this show with some evangelist named Jack Van Impe. He was talking about all the good news in the media (like AIDS, threat of nuclear weapons, threat of avian flu). This (according to the show) is all good news because after these things kill all the non-believers all the believers will inherit the earth and live here forever. How sick is that? The implications are of course that all these terrible things are somehow part of God's master plan (he's so much smarter than us that we are just unable to see that all this suffering and death is really just because he loves us humans so darned much) and that we should not be putting any effort into curing these diseases, or using diplomacy to stop nuclear proliferation. That would just be prolonging those good times that start right after "the end" and why would we want to do that?

So did being religious make him crazy or did being crazy make him religious?

Did you catch his platinum blond wife, Rexella? She must be like 80 but due to all her cosmetic surgery looks about 25. glory be to God, I remember watching that guy back about 15 years ago when he was harping how the world would end any day, but definitely by 2000. yes, i think any nutjob with the right connections can get a tv show.

pretty much

Rossie did.

Louie Anderson did...so yeah.

yes, Benny Hinn is proof

I am pretty much a conservative Jew/ Christian and I agree with you....

All thought this evangelist makes it seem as though anybody could get a show and spread crazy messages like that, no, any nutjob cannot get a show. Maybe a nutjob with money...but not just any nutjob:D

Yep....he's an embarrassment, all right.

1. Yes. Anyone of us could get a TV show.
2. I think the man is crazy. I think this crazy man picked up a Bible. I think this crazy man mixed his crazy views with the Bible.
And then got himself a show.
Thus, the man is crazy. (neither of your options by the way)

Oh, isn't he just awful?

Religious and crazy aren't always linked, but he is most definitely both! Him and the loonies at Westover Baptist Church. (I'd give you the web address, but the profanity filter would block it. Seriously.)

It would appear that any wacko can get a religious show. I seriously dislike the way they make the rest of us look bad.

Jack Van Impe is a great Christian Bible scholar. Obviously, you are not nor do you understand what's he's talking about. The man has most of the Bible memorized. He knows the Bible and he knows the Author. He's a Bible prophecy scholar. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

I have not heard Jack Van Impe in years, but I think you misunderstood what he meant by the Good news.

The Good News of Jesus Christ is about salvation, not about destroying the world.

Yeah, check out Gene Scott sometime....

Well that evangelist deserves ten lashings on his butt. We had enough of these wierdos around us. Well reminds me of a saying... "Half the world is composed of idiots and other half half to take indecent advantage of them."

If you will notice at the beginning of the show, in small print, it says, this show is a paid advertisement.
So - No, any nutjob can't get a tv show, but any wingnut that has the cash - can. After Jack does 20 minutes of mouthing off, the sales pitch starts. This is where Rexz (Jacks side kick, you can just see the intelligence, in her limpid eyes) comes in, and of course, Chuck. (He reminds me of a car sales man.}

It is a strange world we live in but in my experience I personally
visited many religions including the moonies, old jack van, billy graham, jimmy, the witnesses, and more than I could type. I
found the preachers and relious people of popularity seem to be
more of a henderence to deal with. For some reason they all are a little crazy. I don not lean or depend on faith to have a close
relationship with a higher power. Most of these people try to be
show persons and hide behind that cloth. no one is pefect.