For those of you who don't know, televangelists are frauds! These loathsome creatures prey on the desperation of the poor and the generosity and good faith of (gullible) Americans to line their wallets. Leading televangelists like Benny Hinn will ask people for donations, promising them that if they make an offering to the Lord (and what greater offering than cash?), God will shower them with more money than they will be able to count. Check out Benny Hinn in action on youtube!
Benny Hinn recently asked his "congregation" through a newsletter to donate money so that he could buy himself a jet, a Gulfstream G4SP which he is calling "Dove One" and which God told him he would need in order to spread the Good News. Here is the introduction from the brochure he sent: "I am writing you, as one of my closest and most faithful partners, to let you know about a tremendous and historic opportunity for the Gospel of our wonderful Lord Jesus, and I am praying that the Holy Spirit will speak to you as I share this glorious news!"
Although I am absolutely disgusted by people like this, who try to profit off of religion, I don't think that they should be subject to legal crackdowns. If people want to be mindless sheep and throw away their money, they should be allowed to. I do however think that all of these so called "ministries" should have their tax-exempt status stripped away from them. They are running a business, plain and simple, and therefore should pay their fair share of taxes. The only God being worshiped here is money.
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its very scary that money is the reason for so much evil in this world. friends betray friends, kids murder kids, and outgoing "religious" folk use their status as a platform into tricking fellow believers, who are more than likely putting their ACTUAL faith into this scheme, into giving them money! makes me shake my head and wish we just traded objects for objects, but i'm sure we'd be able to find a dangerous and more cleverly profitable way of doing that as well...
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