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In their success, the Bakkers took conspicuous consumption to an unusual level for a non-profit organization.

According to Frances FitzGerald in an April 1987 New Yorker article, " They epitomized the excesses of the 1980s ; the greed, the love of glitz, and the shamelessness ; which in their case was so pure as to almost amount to a kind of innocence ".

Detractors often said that PTL stood for Pass The Loot.