Predatory charlatans or performance artists? Mega preachers in America.

Vignettes from the American Way of Life •
Edited & compiled by Patrice Greanville

Via his iconic novel Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis criticized the US pervasive religiosity, and warned Americans about their propensity to believe hucksters. That America has long been the land of appalling, bovine gullibility, a fact that has made multi-millionaires of scores of religious charlatans, the most outrageous preaching and flaunting a "prosperity gospel" (get rich quick) to justify their own greed, is a reality decried by all progressive observers across the globe.

Below we present a gallery with some of the most notorious of the breed. That they have entertainment value cannot be denied, that's why some have justly called them "performance artists". Let your blood boil at the gall of these crooks and the political system that sanctimoniously allows them to operate with impunity, or have a belly laugh. Both are quite possible. Incidentally, although most of these bloodsuckers and con men are white Southerners of often humble origin, these crooks come in all colors and shades.