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Haggard the only ‘real’ one in a list of rotten reverends
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel compiled a slideshow called “Scandalous Preachers in film,” and the No. 1 man on the list is Ted Haggard, now being featured in an HBO documentary
Haggard is the only real preacher in the slideshow; the other 10 are fictional characters from film over a number of decades – including Rev. Henry Kane in Poltergeist II (pictured here), Silas in The Da Vinci Code, and Pentecostal preacher Eulis ‘Sonny’ Dewey in The Apostle.
(Hat tip to Sarah Pulliam.)
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