No, I Hadn't Read That

the lying, grifting, hallelujah peddlin,' Jim Bakker had died and has most likely gone to hell.   I hope he gets out when the last of the evil he did in this world is burned out of him,  as described in Paul and, as I recall, it says in both Luke and Matthew's Gospels.   But not till then. 

Though I will admit that I had a sentimental affection for the original Azuza Street Pentecostalism which was  integrated both along racial and gender lines and produced some great music,  seeing the antics of, especially, the racist, sexist, hateful white supremacist majority of Pentecostals and not a few non-white Bakker level crooks and grifters among the current herd of them,  I don't consider Pentacostalism to be Christianity,  it is just another of the many pseudo-Christian, ideological-financial-political manifestations of the Antichrist which are most accurately considered christianist,  not Christian.   Nor, by the way do I any longer consider much of what is called "evangelical" Protestantism or "traditional Catholicism" to be much better.   

As I said in the post you objected to,  it's not the fault of authentically Christian People or those of other faiths that the lawyerly language of the First Amendment and the love that our lawyers, judges and, especially, "justices" have for playing even stupider than they are when it comes to determining a religion from a con job,  faith for robbing the vulnerable and mentally deficient,  enriching a small circle of crooks for those who give everything to the least among us,  that our Constitution and law is that stupidly written and dishonestly administered.

But there is every reason for those authentically Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Native and other Religious Believers to reject such dishonesty and stupidity.   There's nothing to keep us from calling them out and condemning them.

And daintily not doing that is not a matter of niceness or fairness,  we've got the history of such abuse of the forms of religion and the enormous numbers of People they harm to reject the idea that our own, personal and temporary tranquility overcomes the need to condemn and reject and fight against those things. 

Jesus did it continually in the Gospels.   Paul did in his letters, Luke did in Acts, and the rest of the Scripture from the time of the Prophets did too.   It's clearly a religious duty to forego the ease of that cowardly, scrupulous refusal to tell the truth about it.   At least if you take the example of the Prophets, the Apostles and Jesus as normative.