Member of the wealthy and influential echelon of religious evangelists, usually with a succession of Bible products, national TV and radio shows, best selling books. Often holds controversial cultural views (i.e. Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson) but may also refer to those who simply have large following (i.e. Robert Schuller, Billy Graham).
Sure that televangelist is popular and has his own TV show, but he's not a megavangelist with his own corporate complex, 20,000-member church, and media empire.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)