Bakker's back (who says there are no second acts in American lives?) Jim was big. He had 47 bank accounts, a theme park, an amazing wife and God on his side. He was also a crook. He was, in the words of a fellow evangelist, `the greatest scab on the face of Christianity in church history'. But Jim did his time and now, praise Jesus...

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: June 15, 2003| Author: David Usborne | Copyright information

The life of Jim Bakker, the world's most famous fallen tele- evangelist, has always been about numbers, and we are not just talking hymns and psalms. There was the $1.9m salary he paid himself in 1986, the last full year that he led the Praise The Lord (PTL) Ministry that he founded in 1972 with his thickly mascara'd wife, Tammy Faye. At the time, he owned six luxury mansions, 47 bank accounts and a single Rolls-Royce. He was accustomed to raising $1m from his TV-goggling disciples across Ame...

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