We already knew that Jim Bakker had gone way, way off the deep end since returning to television a decade ago. Indeed, he sounds even worse than he did in his heyday in the 1980s. But yesterday’s episode of “The Jim Bakker Show” may have taken the cake.
Bakker claimed that the devil is pulling out all the stops to derail Donald Trump because he is on the side of “righteousness.” But later on, Bakker veered from standard religious right agitprop to sheer lunacy. He claimed that “about half of America are God haters”—and this crowd is largely responsible for promoting the evidence that Russian hacking influenced the election. Don’t take my word for it—watch it here. Bakker’s rant on Russia starts at the 25-minute mark.
Uh huh. So the entire intelligence community hates God, because it agrees the Kremlin meddled in our election. This is the kind of mental contortion and distortion that is all too common inside the fundie bubble.