RE: Expensive houses of well known televangelists
May 14, 2012 at 3:55 am
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2012 at 3:59 am by BethK.)
(May 11, 2012 at 2:51 pm)Ziploc Surprise Wrote: Here's another quote: Long responded in a statement Thursday night, "I am relieved that after more than three years of intense investigation and countless untrue allegations, that Senator Chuck Grassley's review has found no evidence of wrongdoing. Our ministry at New Birth has always and will continue to operate with accountability and integrity. I am thankful to God that the public now knows the truth."
If I were paranoid (and I am) I would venture to say that the lovely senator was paid to "not find anything".
I also wonder how much money was spent to make the senator's investigation threatening enough to require pay offs.
Just a little paranoia. I don't trust these guys as far as I can throw them.
If or when they are shown to have been bribing officials, interfering with a Senate investigation, the S will hit the Fan! If it's handled right, it will open the eyes of "average" Americans. The uber-religious who follow these huxters will continue to follow them. Perhaps the pendulum will swing back from not saying anything to offend them, and people to brush them aside as "religious nuts" or some other similar term. That's how it was for the most part in the 1970s.
How did these people get at least acceptance and not looking too closely by the majority of Americans?
Mansions in the here and now can be demonstrated to exist.
Mansions in the sky cannot be demonstrated to exist.
It shows what they really believe - and it's not their own BS.
Note that even if what they preach is true, many of them would have to be positive that they're not going to their reward in heaven... just the opposite from fleecing the poor in the name of someone who preached poverty.
