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How do you feel about Tammy Faye now?

posted 16 years ago by Screen-7
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I'm curious... how do you feel about Tammy Faye now that the scandal is long over and she has died.

As for me: while there are true scumbags in the televangelist scene, Tammy Faye was probably not one of them.

Her husbands seems like a first-class jerk. Jerry Falwell seems even worse.

But Tammy Faye? Maybe not the brightest bulb on the string but I think she was genuinely a kind-hearted person.

The way she treated the gay community for example: her theology taught her they were sinners but her heart told her they were humans deserving her friendship. Her heart seemed to win out.

[–] ClockworkKarma 16 years ago

I feel like it's a good thing that she was compassionate and spoke out to conservative right-wing Christians, because she sure-as-Hell took care of #1.

That opulent lifestyle she lived is also part of her un-realistic version of reality. Maybe she thought she really could make a difference in her skewed vision of the world.

At the last presidential election of her life, she witnessed so-called Christians voting to re-elect a president that started a cycle of death, that will claim over a million lives before it is through.

THOU SHALT NOT KILL.(10 commandments.)

[–] jjjunob 16 years ago

I have a MUCH more positive view of her after seeing this documentary. She actually seems different from so many other self-professed "Christians" who could not be LESS Christ-like, as they go around hating everyone who isn't exactly like them.

[–] Filmsweep-by-Persona 15 years ago

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>>>Her husbands seems like a first-class jerk. Jerry Falwell seems even worse.

Her husband made some mistakes, especially in relation to the huge vision he had and the money he needed to raise for it, and ESPECIALLY with the whole Jessicca Hahn thing. But I don't think he was a first class jerk. I think he wanted something good, and for God, but as he said, "the tail wagged the dog."

>>>But Tammy Faye? Maybe not the brightest bulb on the string but I think she was genuinely a kind-hearted person.

>>>The way she treated the gay community for example: her theology taught her they were sinners but her heart told her they were humans deserving her friendship. Her heart seemed to win out.

Totally dead on. I want to be more like her in this aspect.

jjjunob
>>>I have a MUCH more positive view of her after seeing this documentary. She actually seems different from so many other self-professed "Christians" who could not be LESS Christ-like, as they go around hating everyone who isn't exactly like them.

HATING is the word I use for Falwell. Sorry, Jerry, I just can't see any way around this.

[–] construct 12 years ago

My opinions about all these people remain unchanged from what I thought about them while it was going on.

I saw and still see Tammy Faye as a basically decent person who was incredibly naive. She was the only one of the bunch that I felt was really authentic. The rest are utterly plastic.

I never believed that Jim Bakker was unaware of the financial mismanagement. It's possible, maybe even probable, that he was in over his head, but the swindle was just too extreme for me to believe that he was unaware of it.

As for Robertson, the Crouches, and Falwell, these are truly evil people. I knew it at the time, and they haven't changed--apart from Falwell's being dead. I guess Falwell can't personally do any more harm, but his legacy lives on.

[–] DingelBerry 11 years ago

I love Tammy Faye back in the day I was mesmerized by her make up!!!!! those eyes and lips

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16215) 3 years ago

Falwell's offspring still walks the Earth.

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