I felt it necessary to revive an American legend from obscurity. Marjoe Gortner was the youngest evangelical preacher when he was ordained at the tender age of four. He traveled the country with his parents holding revival meetings and “healing” the sick. With every town visited, the family bilked more and more money from their faithful followers.
In the late 60′s though, all that went awry when Marjoe had a change of conscience. He decided to make one last revival tour and bring along a film crew this time. Marjoe was about to expose to the world the true inner workings of his family and other ministers. Marjoe gave detailed information on how he and countless others deceive the faithful out of millions and get nothing but praise in return.
The resulting film, Marjoe, won the 1973 Academy Award for best documentary. Watch the preview below and add this movie to your must-see list. Enjoy!
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Kathy-
I’m well aware of Alex Jones. He is a fraud, like David Icke. I don’t “have problems” with what you believe in, I reject it categorically. Alex Jones is a purveyor of “the US government attacked the US on 9/11,” which is totally false. National Geographic ran an excellent program refuting the “9/11 conspiracy,” and I have spoken with friends in the military who saw the plane crash into the pentagon; I have also spoken with engineers who have demonstrated the fact that two planes loaded with fuel brought down WTC 1, 2, and 7. But I notice you have yet to present any verifiable facts about interdimensional lizard aliens who can shape shift. That is required before I will accept such a thing, which is a central tenent of your “international satanist conspiracy.” Extraordinary claims require extraordinay proof. Now, back to the article this thread is supposed to be about: there is verifiable proof that televangelists are lying, cheating money-grubbers. Even if Marjoe simply wanted more attention and money, he exposed an ongoing sham purported to be “old time religion.” Care to comment on that, since this isn’t a “conspiracy” web site?
Hi Kurt,
It is evident that anyone who disagrees with you is a “fraud.”
It is this dogmatic, bullying and intimidating attitude of American men that is causing Wars and destroying lives globally.
Explain the Alex Jones documentary film:”Dark Secrets: Bohemian Grove” and the documentary film “Plane Sight” seeing as you are the expert.
The International Satanist Conspiracy is causing the Wars and destruction we are all forced to witness daily through the media.
The German Monarchy, the Bushes’, Blair and the other instigators of Wars are cold blooded and reptillian.
They commit Genicide and ruthlessly destroy lives to “de-populate” the planet and control it by fear for their personal Financial Gain.
These evil people despise God and Jesus and they are destroying Humanity and the Earth as predicted in Revelations.
The Creation of the Universe is a huge subject which no-one has the answers to.
Let it suffice to say that David Icke’s theory of “interdimensional lizard aliens who can shape shift” is simply his theory.
Heartless, cold-blooded and inhuman (and therefore reptillian) pretending to normal is what I believe he is trying to say.
I believe in Jesus, Angels, Miracles, Healing and World Peace.
American Evangelists who rob God’s Faithful to support the despicable Bush Regime and their bloody Wars are NOT CHRISTIANS.They are Satanists and this is the point I am trying to make.
For your information, Religion has been forced on us by a bunch of conspirators, the Roman Catholic Church.
Jesus taught Peace and Love and His Church was His Disciples.
Christians must live by the example of Jesus. If they do not, they have no right to call themselves Christians.
It is the responsibility of people themselves to refuse to support evil and wickedness.
God Bless,
Lots of Love,
Kathy Methven
Kathy –
“It is evident that anyone who disagrees with you is a ‘fraud.’†– incorrect. There are many who might disagree with me; that is their right. But anyone who lies, distorts and misrepresents facts for the purpose of selling tapes is indeed a fraud.
“It is this dogmatic, bullying and intimidating attitude of American men that is causing Wars and destroying lives globally.†— also incorrect. I am a scientist, dogma is the antithesis of my world-view. I have never bullied nor intimidated anyone in my entire life. I don’t see how a demand for producing evidence is in any way dogmatic, bullying, or intimidating. This statement also shows how those who cannot support their arguments stoop to name-calling and gross over-generalizations; we didn’t cause the Terror War, we responded to attacks upon ourselves and our allies. Sorry if you don’t get that; I have always been in favor of the strong protecting and freeing the weak. If you feel that to be in error, I suggest you go to Iran and try to live as a Christian there. Good luck.
“Explain the Alex Jones documentary film: ’Dark Secrets: Bohemian Grove’ and the documentary film ‘Plane Sight†seeing as you are the expert.’†– propaganda and cleverly produced distortions of reality. Here’s a web site which blows “Plane Sight†right out of the water, seeing as how you seem to like web sites so much: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/06-09-11.html
You then go on to repeat your unfounded statements about the “international satanic conspiracy.†Repeating things again and again was a trick Hitler was fond of; against the unwary they have a cumulative effect of creating belief. Doesn’t work on me.
“Let it suffice to say that David Icke’s theory of ‘interdimensional lizard aliens who can shape shift’ is simply his theory. Heartless, cold-blooded and inhuman (and therefore reptillian) pretending to normal is what I believe he is trying to say.†— also incorrect. He really means it, and has stated as such during many over-priced lectures he gives to fleece the gullible. And, by the way, that isn’t a theory in a scientific sense, it isn’t really even a hyopothesis. It is pure speculation.
“I believe in Jesus, Angels, Miracles, Healing and World Peace.†– good for you. I don’t buy into the first three (okay, Jesus did indeed exist, but as an individual more divine than anyone else, no). The last two; sure. But healing is done by medical doctors and psychologists; world peace is only achievable by strength against tyranny. Benjamin Franklin: “If you want peace, you must prepare for war.â€
You then go on to claim that the money-grubbing televangelists are Satanists. This implies, along with your other statements, that Buddhists, Moslems, and anyone not of your particular faith are Satanists. Along with the Roman Catholic Church, the original branch of Christianity, out of which the Protestant Reformation came (all evangelicals are protestants of one kind or another). I call balderdash on that notion. Where is your independently-documented evidence of such? I’ve many friends who are Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, and Buddhist. Won’t they be surprised to find they are actually Satanists?
“It is the responsibility of people themselves to refuse to support evil and wickedness.†— I agree. And part of being evil and wicked is lying and distorting. I will therefore continue to be a scientist in the best tradition of Descartes: by questioning, and demanding proof.
If that offends you, well I am truly sorry, but that’s the way it is. And, again, I point out this is a religious discussion site, not a site to air 9/11 conspiracy theories. If I wanted to do that, I’d be on those sites.
Thank you for your blessing and love; may the Universe do the same for you.
[...] She takes no orders from Klaatu, neither the uptight “if you don’t stop fighting, I’ll kill you” alien nor the “hey, is this really the Beatles?” band. No, I chose the name Gort in honor of child evangelist turned B-movie star Marjoe Gortner: [...]
I got it from my library.
Before Jim Jones led 900 people to their deaths in a cult massacre 30 years ago today, he was just a young Indianapolis pastor who preached a Gospel that appealed to people like Gene and June Cordell. The Cordells, who
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Personally, I hope the real Jesus blesses Marjoe for revealing exactly what was written over two thousand years ago about false prophets and the like. This is the main reason why I don’t go to church or big tent revivals. Do my Bible studying at home every morning and read the Bible all during the day for true inspiration. Real Christianity is about picking up your personal cross daily because of your faith in Jesus Christ and not getting worked up by drum and guitar music.
From the few clips I have seen Marjoe seems like a nice guy with a conscience, which I believe is Gods law written in our hearts, as is also the knowledge of Gods existence. Above all please remember that God is now in the business of forgiveness and mercy, and blasphemy is not accepting Jesus as His son. Wherever you are you can desire His guidance and He will help you, just stop lying
to yourself. Pride is a lousy reason to refuse to see the truth, what? God wants you to act like an idiot? No, but to say His name is a big pride breaker, even for me after 40 years. Mankind seems to flip from humility to conceit second by second. Do not lie to yourself, ask Christ into your heart and ask Him for the truth. Don’t be loud or fanatical, and stop making excuses, be at peace, read as you can and treat others as you want to be treated, with mercy and kindness. Jesus is a fuzzy bear, to those who love the truth, and reguardless of all the crap we hear today from Hollywood, even from an apostate (sleeping) church, He cares for you, He cares very much. For nine hours He was in agony, He did His job to help us, and is here to listen now, talk to Him a little, then do your best to treat others as you want to be treated, with compassion. My fav book is James, the wifes is Ephesians.
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The gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Marjoe Gortner may have conned the people of God out of their money, but God once used a donkey in the bible. He did use Marjoe to cause people to come to the Lord.
God know exactly what He was doing. He was being used by God, even if he didn’t believe it.
The gifts and calling of God are nothing but just pretend.
I fucked allah hard up the ass.
I’m reading all of these lame responses and laughing really hard. I can’t believe that all of you actually still believe in a boogey man in the sky. That’s ludicrous to me. What’s even funnier is that some of you believe Marjoe was touched by some hand of God when it was clear that he was force fed the bible and even smothered with a pillow by his mum when he didn’t get it right. When all was said and done Marjoe confessed that he’s an Atheist. Can you say that loud and clear? Here, let me say it for you. HE’S AN ATHEIST. That means he doesn’t believe in a nameless, faceless God, and doesn’t believe in a nameless faceless false prophet named Jesus who, to date, is the biggest Messianic scam known to man. I mean come on folks. Look up other Gods and you’ll discover that there were some 60 other Gods before Jesus came around that all were born under a star to a virgin mother, became a preacher to men, died on the cross and was resurrected. Mithras was the biggest of the Gods and his worshippers died out about 100 years before the Jesus hoax was created. Funny thing is that anyone who really wants to see the truth simply needs to read the bible and look for all of the inconsistencies that prove the entire bible is written by man and is therefore the most famous piece of fiction ever written. So, you all keep believing in your fake God and I’ll keep believing in the Pink Unicorn and Flying Spaghetti Monster.l
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