As an ex religious person I can see how easy it is to get brainwashed by an ass hole like this guy. Start off with a crediophilic mind. Add a dash of desperation, a carasmatic man like Tilton or what ever other preacher of the prosperity gospel it might be telling you that jesus will solve all your problems if you send in money, what ever you give you get back 100 fold, because you are programmed not to think critically and need the help you will do what ever the preacher says. It's also why you rarely see rich pepole in the crowd at one of these pastors revivals
You could make such an amazing biopic of this man. I don't know who would play him well. This is straight cinematic. That little jazzy tapping behind his bullshit is actually artistic. This is poetic.
You really could. I don't know why but Paul Wesley seems like a good fit for that role. Imagine all the millions that would come across all the old farting preacher videos afterwards. th-cam.com/video/fj_7s1PaKf8/w-d-xo.html
@zinpgh His church membership gradually dwindled, so he ended up selling the big Word of Faith church and closing the adjacent Lexington Academy christian school. He left town and moved to Florida, but was still pastor of the church, which moved to a much smaller space a couple of miles away. He would show up every few weeks and preach in person. After a hiatus, he set his TV operations up in Florida and was back in business. Not sure what became of the little church in Dallas though.
Sadly, as I am sure you know by now, still in business, different modus operandi by still at it. Like cockroaches...how do you get them to stop? Tilton, Swaggart, Murdoch, Dollar..so many others....never stopping as long as suckers still love.
@zinpgh Churches like Tilton's that center around a televangelist are basically cults of personality. They usually have a small board of directors made up of close family members and cronies. So when they get publicly "disgraced" they rarely if ever resign or get forced out, because there is no one in a position to have the power to do that to them. Example: Marcus Lamb of Daystar TV who cheated on his wife for years with a Daystar employee. He's still running the show and on TV daily.
Is the audience for real or just paid to applaud? What amazes me of Tilton is I have never seen a more obvious fraud and yet he was highly successful and made millions off his TV show. I guess it proves there are a lot of naive people easily preyed upon
Isn’t it interesting that everyone of these televangelists ends up on TV talking about some kind of scandal and trying to defend themselves at least once.
The theology of scammology. Thirty years later he's still trying to sell his snake oil in much smaller venues drawing crowds of tens of...uh, crowds of ten or so. 😁
I enjoyed Bob’s non-sequiter about Jesus asking who touched him. He couldn’t figure out where to go with it so he just starts finger snapping and moving on to another subject.
If you notice at the end he highlights how Jesus "talked to the dead" also. This is satan working through bob to take credibility from Jesus by insinuating that Jesus sinned as talking to the dead is forbidden. He also insinuated that if Jesus really was God he would know who touched him.. I realise your comment is old but hopefully you see my answer. God bless you
Imagine going to church and the only thing your preacher talks about is the church's legal problems! I'd wager a guess that he lost a large flock of fleece to them getting tired of hearing the same crap over and over again. It's like a friend who always complains about an ex girlfriend, you get to the point where you don't want to be around them.
I wonder why he even bothered having his own church. He was already raking in tons of money by begging for it on TVs across America from the comfort of his desk.
That's a good question. I will apologize in advance for how long-winded this answer is going to be. On the psychological side of things, having a church gave him an immediate hands-on group of people he could personally manipulate and have power over. Nothing beats the sound of cheers, applause and praise and a weekly audience to reinforce your vanity and react to the ego's every demand in real time. Also, the services were televised locally in the Dallas area, allowing Bob to be a local star and indulge all his whims and fantasies of being a broadcaster and community and civic leader. Much more significantly, on the business side of things, having a church is a shrewd move. It allowed him to secure and keep his tax-exempt status. Also, church pastors, being heads of tax-exempt organizations, are allowed to be paid a salary and provided with a home and vehicle (among other perks) paid for 100% by the ministry. Also being set up as a church allowed him to protect internal documents about the operation of the "ministry" (including his very shady, exploitative direct mail fund-raising operation) from the scrutiny of government authorities. Our tax system in this country is set up so that there are tremendous advantages to making your income by setting up a church and/or ministry and making yourself the pastor and/or evangelist. (I haven't done it myself but I highly recommend it... half the people in the south central US have done it already). Literally billions of dollars in potential revenue are lost each year because churches don't have to pay taxes. Churches and ministries can (and often do) acquire significant real estate holdings and sit on them, giving nothing back in the form of tax revenue and often doing nothing with the property. Meanwhile, that land or those buildings could be used for so many other things (small businesses, community gardens, learning centers, internet cafes, safe non-sectarian and agenda-free positive spaces for those fleeing gang and drug peer pressure in the inner cities, etc etc etc) that would either stimulate the economy and make the community dynamic and thriving, or at the very least improve the quality of life in the neighborhood in very real, concrete and tangible ways. Instead, you have big buildings that sit empty most of the week, then once or twice a week everyone fills them up and sits there and listens to a guy talk about his invisible friend and then ask for more money to keep paying for maintenance and energy costs on that big building. When you think about it, it's pretty depressing. Even churches/ministries that "give back" to the community by helping the needy or lending assistance to victims of disasters, can never really make up for what they collectively take from society in the form of not being required to pay their fair share. I realize that if anyone reads what I just said, there will be a flurry of outraged comments, most of them hopelessly inarticulate and charged with lots of emotion but very little substance. But that is to be expected. I guess the argument could be made that even if churches paid their fair share, the government would then turn around and take that money and waste it with its own corruption, incompetence, and layers of bureaucracy. But be that as it may, the argument that churches ultimately take as much as (or more than) they give back is one that no reasonable person can dispute without resorting to vague arguments about the supernatural benefits of church attendance and group spiritual practices.
Those are good answers. Another thing that seemed to exist mostly for the PR value and adulation (although obviously he made money too) were "miracle crusades" in other countries. One thing I assume we'll never know is if Tilton really does believe in what he says, or at least justifies it to himself as "at the end of the day I'm still bringing people to Jesus." I've seen a lot of Christians assume Tilton and others like him are atheists, but I'm not sure. Even L. Ron Hubbard, who explicitly created his cult to make money, put a lot of his personal beliefs into it (such as reincarnation) and those who knew him in subsequent decades say he was both money-hungry *and* a believer in his own creation.
The simple answer is, that once he lost his church, then he started the "Success in Life" program, from his desk. Then later, there was a revival of "Success in Life", from his Florida studio.
Romans 1:16 NIV [16] For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. The power of the Holy Spirit is when the good news, the Gospel of Christ died for your sins, and resurrected. This is when God the Holy Spirit changes lives. Preach this. 1 Corinthians 1:23 NIV [23] but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
When he said the hundred fold return they stood up and cheered. They’re going to church to gamble. Put money in the bucket and God will give you more. Manda sanda Gods gonna buy me a new Honda.
He sees millions being brought into the kingdom of heaven? There is no currency in heaven there are no bodies in heaven there is only m i n d I think the dollars he's talking about is going into his bank accounts
Surprised so many people kept going to his church even after he was exposed on national television. When did he lose his church? Did he resign or was forced out?
@zinpgh I have no idea. He used to pop up on Black Entertainment Television late at night, but I haven't seen him in a while. Maybe he is semi-retired? If anyone out there knows anything please let me know.
He's still around. John Oliver did a thing on him not that long ago. He seems to be partially based on the Internet now, his hair ain't what it used to be, and he's like 70 so he isn't nearly as energetic.
the John Oliver thing was pretty awesome. Bob occasionally preaches in person (usually at hotel conference rooms that he'll rent for the day) in order to be able to keep his status as a minister and therefore keep the ministry's tax-free "not for profit" status.
On TH-cam there is a video from the Dallas TV News Station that exposed him in 1991. They tracked him down more than 20 years later, with his monthly church sermon, in a small airport hotel, near LA.
His head eventually became to large for his body and he now has to pay two men to help carry his head around,it cost a lot of money.He also has to pay a head nurse.
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I would love when this came on. Better than Saturday night live😂
The mercy of God on full display. Amazing that this man wasn’t struck down within the first 6 seconds.
More like amazing he wasn't struck down the second he started his "ministry"
He's still scamming in his old age to this day😂😂
Sometimes i like to watch the Tilton comedy hour.
It’s great! Good background noise
He’s like the Eddie Murphy of religious fraud. Pure comedy gold😂
worst part of all this ... the morons that followed this clown.
I think he’s more like Jim Carey
I'm pretty sure he came straight out of a Miami Vice casting session by the way he is dressed
the shirt, the blow dry, the waistline, just perfect 🤣
What's the name of Martin Short's character on Saturday Night Live? That's Who Tilton reminds me of. 😂😂😂😂
@@emilysanders1978Ed Grimley?
Whoever are holding it down with the music are doing a great job. I'm jamming and laughing
Such a lot of gullible people "hallelujahing" for this fraud...
As an ex religious person I can see how easy it is to get brainwashed by an ass hole like this guy. Start off with a crediophilic mind. Add a dash of desperation, a carasmatic man like Tilton or what ever other preacher of the prosperity gospel it might be telling you that jesus will solve all your problems if you send in money, what ever you give you get back 100 fold, because you are programmed not to think critically and need the help you will do what ever the preacher says. It's also why you rarely see rich pepole in the crowd at one of these pastors revivals
Yep! The blind, following the blind. People can be such sheep sometimes!
A fool and his money are soon parted.
That shirt! On the thumbnail, I thought I was looking at Ed Grimley for a moment!
He Does Look a little like Ed Grimbley LMBO!!!!!!
"Well I must say..." 😂
This guy's a genius. Gets thousands of strangers to fund his cocaine habit. Bloody genius.
He was doing cocaine?
@@nickmanzo2309 oh yeah def.
How could he not? Listen to him!@@nickmanzo2309
You could make such an amazing biopic of this man. I don't know who would play him well. This is straight cinematic. That little jazzy tapping behind his bullshit is actually artistic. This is poetic.
Jim Carey?
You really could. I don't know why but Paul Wesley seems like a good fit for that role. Imagine all the millions that would come across all the old farting preacher videos afterwards. th-cam.com/video/fj_7s1PaKf8/w-d-xo.html
@GrumpyBear he kinda looks like Robert Tilton, maybe Will Farrell he looks a lot like him.
7:55 that part made me laugh the most, when he shouts "jesus talked to the dead" while having some sort of psychotic seizure.
Hahaha! Hunched over , like he’s 80 years old
He must have been under tremendous stress - he's cracking-up on stage.
Best hype man ever
@zinpgh His church membership gradually dwindled, so he ended up selling the big Word of Faith church and closing the adjacent Lexington Academy christian school. He left town and moved to Florida, but was still pastor of the church, which moved to a much smaller space a couple of miles away. He would show up every few weeks and preach in person. After a hiatus, he set his TV operations up in Florida and was back in business. Not sure what became of the little church in Dallas though.
Sadly, as I am sure you know by now, still in business, different modus operandi by still at it. Like cockroaches...how do you get them to stop? Tilton, Swaggart, Murdoch, Dollar..so many others....never stopping as long as suckers still love.
I dunno 'bout you, but I smell Heaven's bakery cookin' up somethin' good for you!
The only place he's bringing them is on the highway to hell 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂
I've got a lot of attorneys and we've...*this Church* has got a lot of money.... So don't mess with us!
Good while it lasted wasn't it Bob
Sadly, if Tilton was smart, he would have put away much of those millions of dollars he got suckers to send him. I am sure he isn'y hurting for money.
Comedy gold
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH DELIVERING SMILES, LAUGHTER, AND MIRACLES.
PRAISE BE THE GLORY!
That shirt alone is a crime.
Terrible
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instead of him dancing on stage he should be dancing on a table in the prison lunch room then the showers
Tilton couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
WOW what a performance, truly Bob your one in a million!
@zinpgh Churches like Tilton's that center around a televangelist are basically cults of personality. They usually have a small board of directors made up of close family members and cronies. So when they get publicly "disgraced" they rarely if ever resign or get forced out, because there is no one in a position to have the power to do that to them. Example: Marcus Lamb of Daystar TV who cheated on his wife for years with a Daystar employee. He's still running the show and on TV daily.
Everybody say," The devil is dumb". The mindless robots say, "The devil is dumb". If he tells them to go jump in the lake, they will jump in the lake.
It's like some strange televangelist jazz Odysee.
F Tilton.
I see that "church" exists no more!! Woo-Hoo!!
Much like his buddy Ken Copeland, his head looks much too large for his body
What the hell Robert ?!?! Where's your $5,000 Gucchi silk suit ? 😮😊
Is the audience for real or just paid to applaud? What amazes me of Tilton is I have never seen a more obvious fraud and yet he was highly successful and made millions off his TV show. I guess it proves there are a lot of naive people easily preyed upon
He lost his lawsuit against ABC.
First Church of Damage Control
"People being healed like 'popcarn'"
that one still confuses me lol
Hallelujah! I’m grooving to the beat.
This is not a ministry. This is a sad, perverted joke.
He saw things, all right. Most of all, he saw his "Ministry" crumble down around him! Today, if he has ANYBODY following him, it'd be a wonder.
Yes It Was.
Holy shit! That shirt is the biggest sin ever!😳😆
I Know Right 🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Fire burning in your bones??” Nah….that’s just the arthritis, honey
Also rofl at him walking hunched over….
He has an unusually elongated head from front to back. The mullet accentuates that fact
white perch look
I want that shirt, it looks comfy.
Dude's gettin his groove on!
cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Isn’t it interesting that everyone of these televangelists ends up on TV talking about some kind of scandal and trying to defend themselves at least once.
Did Bobby ever open a Bible that morning? It was a "church", wasn't it?
The theology of scammology. Thirty years later he's still trying to sell his snake oil in much smaller venues drawing crowds of tens of...uh, crowds of ten or so. 😁
Hoobabakanda
I enjoyed Bob’s non-sequiter about Jesus asking who touched him. He couldn’t figure out where to go with it so he just starts finger snapping and moving on to another subject.
If you notice at the end he highlights how Jesus "talked to the dead" also.
This is satan working through bob to take credibility from Jesus by insinuating that Jesus sinned as talking to the dead is forbidden.
He also insinuated that if Jesus really was God he would know who touched him..
I realise your comment is old but hopefully you see my answer. God bless you
@@mysticalglowtv1796 or Bob was on drugs...
@@Thegamebasement Bob wasn't on drugs. He is the drugs
@@mysticalglowtv1796 Yes He Was Insinuating That God Didn't Know. Tilton Should Have Been Ashamed Of Himself.
Imagine going to church and the only thing your preacher talks about is the church's legal problems! I'd wager a guess that he lost a large flock of fleece to them getting tired of hearing the same crap over and over again. It's like a friend who always complains about an ex girlfriend, you get to the point where you don't want to be around them.
right? that's why he's like a cult leader....true followers didn't care
Of course you got a lot of money and a lot of attorneys you took all the money from everybody
Bob’s dancing is kind of hypnotic
Im sure this guy was the inspiration for Steve Martins leap of faith movie..
people being heal like popcorns .Lol
I wonder why he even bothered having his own church. He was already raking in tons of money by begging for it on TVs across America from the comfort of his desk.
That's a good question. I will apologize in advance for how long-winded this answer is going to be. On the psychological side of things, having a church gave him an immediate hands-on group of people he could personally manipulate and have power over. Nothing beats the sound of cheers, applause and praise and a weekly audience to reinforce your vanity and react to the ego's every demand in real time. Also, the services were televised locally in the Dallas area, allowing Bob to be a local star and indulge all his whims and fantasies of being a broadcaster and community and civic leader. Much more significantly, on the business side of things, having a church is a shrewd move. It allowed him to secure and keep his tax-exempt status. Also, church pastors, being heads of tax-exempt organizations, are allowed to be paid a salary and provided with a home and vehicle (among other perks) paid for 100% by the ministry. Also being set up as a church allowed him to protect internal documents about the operation of the "ministry" (including his very shady, exploitative direct mail fund-raising operation) from the scrutiny of government authorities. Our tax system in this country is set up so that there are tremendous advantages to making your income by setting up a church and/or ministry and making yourself the pastor and/or evangelist. (I haven't done it myself but I highly recommend it... half the people in the south central US have done it already). Literally billions of dollars in potential revenue are lost each year because churches don't have to pay taxes. Churches and ministries can (and often do) acquire significant real estate holdings and sit on them, giving nothing back in the form of tax revenue and often doing nothing with the property. Meanwhile, that land or those buildings could be used for so many other things (small businesses, community gardens, learning centers, internet cafes, safe non-sectarian and agenda-free positive spaces for those fleeing gang and drug peer pressure in the inner cities, etc etc etc) that would either stimulate the economy and make the community dynamic and thriving, or at the very least improve the quality of life in the neighborhood in very real, concrete and tangible ways. Instead, you have big buildings that sit empty most of the week, then once or twice a week everyone fills them up and sits there and listens to a guy talk about his invisible friend and then ask for more money to keep paying for maintenance and energy costs on that big building. When you think about it, it's pretty depressing. Even churches/ministries that "give back" to the community by helping the needy or lending assistance to victims of disasters, can never really make up for what they collectively take from society in the form of not being required to pay their fair share. I realize that if anyone reads what I just said, there will be a flurry of outraged comments, most of them hopelessly inarticulate and charged with lots of emotion but very little substance. But that is to be expected. I guess the argument could be made that even if churches paid their fair share, the government would then turn around and take that money and waste it with its own corruption, incompetence, and layers of bureaucracy. But be that as it may, the argument that churches ultimately take as much as (or more than) they give back is one that no reasonable person can dispute without resorting to vague arguments about the supernatural benefits of church attendance and group spiritual practices.
Those are good answers. Another thing that seemed to exist mostly for the PR value and adulation (although obviously he made money too) were "miracle crusades" in other countries.
One thing I assume we'll never know is if Tilton really does believe in what he says, or at least justifies it to himself as "at the end of the day I'm still bringing people to Jesus." I've seen a lot of Christians assume Tilton and others like him are atheists, but I'm not sure. Even L. Ron Hubbard, who explicitly created his cult to make money, put a lot of his personal beliefs into it (such as reincarnation) and those who knew him in subsequent decades say he was both money-hungry *and* a believer in his own creation.
The simple answer is, that once he lost his church, then he started the "Success in Life" program, from his desk. Then later, there was a revival of "Success in Life", from his Florida studio.
@@SufferinSprings Even Jesus said to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
There are good ministers out there unfortunately some have made others look bad though God will deal with them in the end that is for certain.....
AMEN!!!!
Romans 1:16 NIV
[16] For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
The power of the Holy Spirit is when the good news, the Gospel of Christ died for your sins, and resurrected. This is when God the Holy Spirit changes lives. Preach this.
1 Corinthians 1:23 NIV
[23] but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
I guess he didn't know what point he was trying to make about Jesus asking who touched him.
When he said the hundred fold return they stood up and cheered. They’re going to church to gamble. Put money in the bucket and God will give you more. Manda sanda Gods gonna buy me a new Honda.
Did he really get hit in the face with a pie as he said between 3:50 and 3:54?
@SufferinSprings Ah I see. Yeah that's convenient for them! Biblically a pastor should be held accountable by the church elders.
@SufferinSprings Interesting. Is it true he has no more TV "ministry" and only operates from his website now?
We thinketh thou protest way too much..
He sees millions being brought into the kingdom of heaven? There is no currency in heaven there are no bodies in heaven there is only m i n d I think the dollars he's talking about is going into his bank accounts
He was a business genius lol
I hate to admit it but he was kind of cute in his younger days.
🤔… .well the screen is really blurry so....
You are more cute, if you ask me😊
That’s the allure of the devil
Do you have a daddy complex or something?
Surprised so many people kept going to his church even after he was exposed on national television. When did he lose his church? Did he resign or was forced out?
You can get away with quite a bit using the liberal media excuse lol
@@GrassValleyGreg who the fuck care anyway what these liberals eat shit all day long on their stupid tv box
@@GrassValleyGregBut most of the congregation are more than likely are " so called conservatives
@zinpgh I have no idea. He used to pop up on Black Entertainment Television late at night, but I haven't seen him in a while. Maybe he is semi-retired? If anyone out there knows anything please let me know.
He's still around. John Oliver did a thing on him not that long ago. He seems to be partially based on the Internet now, his hair ain't what it used to be, and he's like 70 so he isn't nearly as energetic.
the John Oliver thing was pretty awesome. Bob occasionally preaches in person (usually at hotel conference rooms that he'll rent for the day) in order to be able to keep his status as a minister and therefore keep the ministry's tax-free "not for profit" status.
On TH-cam there is a video from the Dallas TV News Station that exposed him in 1991. They tracked him down more than 20 years later, with his monthly church sermon, in a small airport hotel, near LA.
His head eventually became to large for his body and he now has to pay two men to help carry his head around,it cost a lot of money.He also has to pay a head nurse.
@@SufferinSprings where you at? We need more tilton videos lol…he’s back to his old tricks
He always had the worst fashion sense....omg that last bit.....jesus talked to the dead.............
You dont put no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll.
Alright Rowdy Roddy Piper!!!! LMBO!!!!!
I need to make a vow of 10,000
Those people standing had to have been staged, like a laugh track on an old school sitcom.
Nope they’re just in a personality cult
expensive chairs!
Oooh dat devil, he got a slippery shoe!
Watch out! He be slipping’ it on you.
Guess bobs visions were false visions oops.
Lol
Pop karn!
Money is the root of all evil bob dont you read your bible or just cherry pick and manipulate?
Cherry Pick and Manipulate
He is on the coke BIG TIME 😅
What a waste of a talented house band. They literally build him up and he just fizzles out.
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