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hooah212002

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Message 1 of 5 (655627)
03-12-2012 8:28 AM

I get the feeling that at least one of you will actually enjoy this doco and not think of it negatively.

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Message 2 of 5 (655640)
03-12-2012 9:56 AM

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03-12-2012 8:28 AM

I suppose a tl;dr is in order. Marjoe is/was a child evangelist popularized in the 40's. This doc goes into detail what he went through, how he was treated and follows him on his final revival tour.

From the Wiki:

Marjoe was a precocious child preacher with extraordinary talents, who was immensely popular in the American South. His parents earned large sums of money off him up until the point he outgrew his novelty. Marjoe rejoined the ministry as a young adult solely as a means of earning a living, and not as a believer; he spent the next several years using his fame and status as an evangelist to defraud a small fortune out of individuals both through tent revivals and televangelism.
Eventually, Gortner suffered a crisis of conscience and decided to renounce his ways, offering the documentary film crew unrestricted access to him during his final revival tour. The film contains scenes from genuine revival meetings showing Gortner preaching and praying for people, interspersed with footage of Gortner admitting on camera that he was a non-believer and revealing the tactics used by himself and other evangelists to manipulate people.[1]

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Message 3 of 5 (655645)
03-12-2012 10:59 AM

Reply to: Message 2 by hooah212002
03-12-2012 9:56 AM

As long as you are posting this in Links and Information, you might have given the links and information.

Well, here they are:

The "marjoe" youtube page

The marjoe wiki page (the person, not the movie)

Those pages contain other relevant links.

When I saw your post, the name "marjoe" immediately rang a bell, presumably related to the media noise at the time the movie came out. However, I never did watch the movie, though I just watched that youtube excerpt that you posted.

I personally see this as a clear case of child abuse / child exploitation.

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