hold this kick behold the Atheist
nightmare these were the moments that
rocked some religions to their very core
the banana and the hand op perfectly
made one for the other
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're
counting down our picks for the top ten
religious scandals for this list will be
ranking high-profile and widespread
scandals that had some serious
repercussions within their respective
religious institutions number 10 Jim and
Tammy Faye Baker rape and fraud scandals
for a scandal about this televangelism
has proven popular and lucrative since
the 1950s with a number of high-profile
preachers like Rex Humbert and W V grant
achieving massive financial success Jim
and Tammy Faye Baker were even more
popular running their praise the Lord or
PTL Club ministry / TV show from the 70s
to the 1980s scandal arose when Jim was
alleged to have raped his church
secretary Jessica Hahn the PTL ran into
further problems when the Baker's were
accused of defrauding their flock of
donations for heritage USA a Christian
theme park allegedly the Baker's
pocketed the excess funds and promised
hotel stays that could not be fulfilled
Jim was sentenced to 45 years in prison
serving only five while Tammy Faye
divorced him during his incarceration
number nine Mother Teresa's motivations
and charity scandal to her the convent
and the Catechism matter more than the
clinic Albanian Indian nun and
missionary mother Teresa founded the
missionaries of charity and did a large
part of her work in India where her
organization ran hospices and assistance
programs for the poor and sick in 2015
however Mohan Bhagwat the head of a
Hindu nationalist group criticized
Teresa's legacy citing suspected
ulterior motives to convert those she
helped to Christianity journalist
Christopher Hitchens had expressed
similar denunciations saying that
Teresa's perceived altruism was in fact
a ruse he alleged that she wished to
advocate suffering and not to save
people from the hardships of poverty
others held mother Teresa accountable
for misusing
and delivering poor medical assistance
accusations that fail to impact your
declaration of sainthood by the back end
in 2016 why are you not boiling water
and sterilizing your needles says
there's no point number 8 Gilbert day at
child abduction and trafficking scandal
this kenyan evangelist ran into
controversy soon after establishing his
gilbert Deum ministries in the united
kingdom in the late 1990s daya who
refers to himself as the archbishop of
Pecha has made many claims over the
course of his career for example he sold
olive oil by suggesting it had the
infused holy power to combat cancer and
HIV
the most serious allegations against
daya and his wife mary daya however were
those involving child trafficking and
abduction tied to his ministries
promised to assist infertile couples
Mary Dayle was arrested in 2004 and
bishop daya was apprehended two years
later after it was revealed that they
had stolen children from a Nairobi
Maternity Hospital and presented them as
miracle babies number 6 but Zizzi foot a
herpe scandal the practice of male
circumcision is an ancient covenant of
the Jewish faith dating back to the
religions foundation Medici Pope a is a
traditional form of circumcision that
became newsworthy in the early 2000s
when a number of Israeli and New York
City infants were diagnosed with herpes
critics claimed the virus was
transmitted by the moil during this
process this is due largely to the fact
that Madiba pay involves Lamoille
sucking the blood from the circumcision
before bandaging the area New York's
Department of Health later responded by
passing a regulation requiring that all
parents recognize the health risks
associated with Madiba pay and sign a
consent form before proceeding with the
ritual number 6 prep low-dollar
Gulfstream jet and domestic violence
scandals truth is that a family
conversation with our youngest daughter
got emotional in 2014 the Atlanta based
evangelist creflo dollar came under fire
when he asked for donations to purchase
a 6
million-dollar Gulfstream jet which he
stated he would use to spread the
ministry of his non-denominational world
changers church international prior to
that in 2012 a more serious accusation
of domestic violence was made against
the minister by his teenage daughter
dollar was arrested for battery after
his daughter claimed she was choked and
punched by her father at their home the
altercation actually stems from an
argument over the 15 year old attending
a party the charge was later dropped
after dollar who maintained that he was
innocent
completed a required anger management
course I should have never been arrested
number 5 mount Cashel orphanage child
sex abuse scandal the mount Cashel
orphanage was a home for Ward's of the
state located in Saint John's
Newfoundland which took in young
children for decades starting in the
1950s
unfortunately the orphanage is largely
remembered for the scandal that
eventually forced it to close its doors
in 1990 it was revealed that over 300
residents had been abused by staff
members of the Christian Brothers of
Ireland in Canada during their time at
Mount Cashel this sex abuse scandal was
the largest in Canadian history and one
of the largest worldwide it was made all
the more troubling given the fact that
many religious and local authorities
knew of the abuse and had paid off
several victims in my opinion we've just
scratched the surface I mean there's a
lot of people out there that haven't
even come forward there's a lot of
people out there that have settled
already and are still living with this
because you never shake this number for
Bishop Eddie Long sex scandal because
men are being feminized and women are
becoming masculine in 2010 the New Birth
Missionary Baptist Church in DeKalb
County Georgia became a center for
scandal multiple male parishioner
stepped forward with lawsuits claiming
that new births Bishop Eddie Long a
crusader against gay marriage during his
ministries had pressured them into
sexual relations when they were in their
teens I don't trust nobody I will not
trust anybody I'm have to go through a
lot of therapy sessions I know I will
the lawsuits detailed that long had
plied
young boys with presents and trips in
exchange for sex long denied the claims
via his attorney and in prepared
statements he eventually resolved
out-of-court with the plaintiffs though
details remain confidential
why did you settle the case the old
gambling song had no one to hold it no
when to fold it know when to walk away
number three Jimmy Swaggart sex scandal
Jimmy Lee swagger was a well-known
televangelist in the 1980s and a
minister of the Pentecostal Christian
denomination known as the Assemblies of
God Swigert success and notoriety came
under fire in the public eye however
when the preacher became involved in a
sex scandal with a prostitute this
ultimately led the Assembly to strip him
of his ability to practice religious
ordinances Swaggart's struggled during
the scandal reached its peak when in
1988 he addressed his wife and
congregation in a choked up confession
it was watched on television by millions
and served as one of the most memorable
moments of the 80's televangelist boom
number two the Vatican leaks scandal the
Vatican leaks scandal or vatileaks
received significant public attention
when a book by Italian journalist
Gianluigi Nuzzi
entitled his holiness the secret papers
of benedict xvi was released the book
contained letters between pope benedict
xvi and his personal secretary that
exposed stories of financial corruption
including bribery further fuel was added
to the fire when an internal vatican
investigation revealed the church
outsiders had blackmailed homosexual
clergymen ultimately Pope Benedict
resigned his position in February of
2013 the first time in almost 600 years
that a pope had done so before we unveil
our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions La Cosa Nostra SOC
sent a ray a token tostado
Malo stay so Roberto Calvi persona
capacitive nakata-sensei scruple Mike
Jones is standing by his stunning
allegations that Reverend Haggard paid
him for sex about once a month for three
years as
well as for methamphetamines that is God
penetrating your heart it's burning on
the inside of you and you need to make a
vow of faith of $1,000 number one the
Boston sexual abuse scandal Cardinal law
and the Boston archdiocese are
defendants in 25 of those lawsuits
accused of negligence for not properly
supervising Gagan the Academy
award-winning 2015 film spotlight takes
inspiration from this series of news
reports first published in 2002 by
journalists at the Boston Globe we've
got two stories here we've got a story
about the generate' clergy and we've got
a story about a bunch of lawyers turning
child abuse into a cottage industry the
articles brought to light accusations by
a number of plaintiffs of sexual abuse
against Catholic priests in the
Archdiocese of Boston some of whom said
their tales of abuse went all the way
back to their childhood that abuse was
happening during the time that I was
growing up in discovering Who I am as a
person this series of articles assured
in even more claims as more alleged
victims came forward perhaps most
notable was the criticism that landed at
the feet of the church itself the
institution was accused of covering up
these crimes
having reappointed the incriminating
pastors to other parishes in order to
protect its reputation
now that glow of investigation into
court documents revealed that the church
knew a great deal about Gagan and his
offenses at the time they were committed
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