leap of faith

Leap of Faith (1992). “Leap of faith” was a movie about a traveling con man turned preacher “Reverend Jonas Nightingale” who knew how to convince a crowd to fill a donation plate. He decided to set up camp in Rustwater, Kansas, a small farming town hard-hit by drought, where one of his tour vans had broken down; he seized the opportunity to put on his show as a means of making a quick profit from people …

…in the minds of scandal-weary, cynical audiences they are still the ringmasters of electronic religion predators. The question with evangelist teachings is how an individual is to know who is really honest and who is not; as the painful memories of past and present scandals still burn alive in peoples’ minds. The best way out is to seek salvation and faith within oneself rather than handing it over on a silver platter to so-called “evangelists.”