Marjoe the full film telling the story of Marjoe Gortner.
Marjoe Gortner was a child preacher coerced from such a young age he was preaching at the age of three and was ordained a Pentecostal preacher performing wedding ceremonies when he was four. Marjoe in this documentary explains how he was taught to whip the congregation into a frenzy, rendering the adherents ripe for extracting the maximum amount of cash possible using the collection plate and other techniques.
Pentecostalism is a very lucrative branch of Christianity, placing an exaggerated emphasis on direct personal experience with the holy spirit. Since the sixties the Pentecostals increasingly gained acceptance with mainstream Christianity and today with other charismatic evangelicals number over half a million adherents. Despite the tragedy of indoctrination and this being very dated it's a worthy watch .
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