Televangelists: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it in threads on churches, tax exemption and religious fundraising, as the go-to explainer on seed faith televangelism.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

LastWeekTonight

Topic

televangelism

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2018

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Many people believe in the mistaken "no pain, no gain" philosophy. People seem to believe that somehow the universe will recognize their sacrifice and reward them accordingly. John Oliver did an excellent piece on a new crop of so-called "seed faith" televangelists that have popped …

• Not sure why you're getting so many down votes, but I completely agree with you. Some of his shows were incredible a few years back, two that come to mind: Televangelists[1] and Debt Buyers[2]. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

• This reminded me of something similar: televangelists asking people for "seed faiths". If you haven't heard about this yet, check out this video from Last Week Tonight: [VIDEO]