Jim Bakker: Washington Train Derailment Was A Warning From God

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

End Times prepper pastor Jim Bakker declared on his television program last week that last month’s train derailment in Washington state was some sort of warning from God.

“What do you think that train going off the tracks in Washington state was?” he asked, rhetorically. “What is the spiritual side? Why is it right now, at this time of the year?”

Noting that the train was on its maiden voyage on a new stretch of track, Bakker likened the derailment to the sinking of the Titanic, which apparently made it spiritually significant.

“The great preachers of all times have said the Titanic is God’s warning,” Bakker said, “and I believe—here again, one of the fast new trains, brand new, crashed off the tracks on its maiden voyage—people, you had better listen to what is going on.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jim-bakker-washington-train-derailment-was-a-warning-from-god/

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

1. I think Jim Bakker and his ilk

Are the warning from God.

[ProudLib72]

2. I'm sure God has better things to do with her time

than to play with choo choo trains.

[gvstn]

12. I don't know

She seems to care about all those teenage boys she made horny, jerking off. She seems to think it's a sin if the Catholic Church is to be believed.

Sorry, l just think any all-powerful God that exists, has better things to do than let terrible things happen to decent people.

[Sancho]

3. too bad that tRump was concentrating on airlines and not railroads...

[Wwcd]

4. Jim Baker is proof that God Doesn't Exist

[jberryhill]

5. Yep

[spanone]

6. the hottest seats in hell are reserved for these con men televangelists

Following a 16-month Federal grand jury probe, Bakker was indicted in 1988 on eight counts of mail fraud, 15 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.[9][17] In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, the jury found him guilty on all 24 counts, and Judge Robert Daniel Potter sentenced him to 45 years in federal prison and a $500,000 fine.[6]:52[18] He served time in the Federal Medical Center, Rochester, in Rochester, Minnesota, sharing a cell with activist Lyndon LaRouche and skydiver Roger Nelson.[19]

In February 1991, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Bakker's conviction on the fraud and conspiracy charges, but voided Bakker's 45-year sentence, as well as the $500,000 fine, and ordered that a new sentencing hearing be held. The court held that Potter's statement at sentencing that Bakker's actions resulted in "those of us who do have a religion" being lampooned as "saps from money-grubbing preachers or priests" was evidence that he had injected his own religious beliefs into considering Bakker's sentence.[20]

On November 16, 1992, a sentence reduction hearing was held. Bakker's sentence was reduced to eight years.[6]:104 In August 1993, Bakker was transferred to a minimum security federal prison in Jesup, Georgia, and then he was granted parole in July 1994, after serving almost five years of his sentence.[6]:116, 130 Bakker's son, Jay, spearheaded a letter-writing campaign to the parole board on his father's behalf, urging leniency.[6]:106–115 He was released from Federal Bureau of Prisons custody on December 1, 1994.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker

[SHRED]

7. Senile old koot.

[OhioBlue]

8. When I read the headline, I thought maybe he had a moment of clarity

and meant the Trump Crazy Train in DC

[left-of-center2012]

9. Didn't the news reports say ...

... the train was going about 70 MPH around a curve with a speed limit of 35 MPH?

Just thinking "gawd" could work in a more miraculous way.

[SharonClark]

10. God sure gives a lot of warnings. When is the hammer coming down?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. The seemingly endless warnings are much like a Mueller investigation.

Maybe the hammer will drop, but WHEN?

[struggle4progress]

11. "So never board a train without a year's supply of my freeze-dried food in your luggage!"