Expensive houses of well known televangelists

[Ziploc Surprise]

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?

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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.

The U.S. government is horribly corrupt. In this case there is little political motivation to "watch the watchers" so to speak so I say that the investigation had more ability to do schenanagans than in other investigations. It looks to me like it was a relatively easy way for a senator to drum up some cash. Then again I might just be paranoid about this.

As for the preachers, for whatever reasons, time and again, people fall for the line "well those preachers may have been phonies (or false prophets) but I've got the real thing." I'm serious, this line works, and it has worked over and over. People want to believe in miracles. They want to follow charismatic leaders who "have the power of god in them." They support someone who tells them everything they want to hear. They want to believe.

Where there is a desire to believe with little to no question there will be con artists who will take advantage of the situation. I was a Christian for 30 years. I've been duped and I've seen many people less skeptical than I get duped. Though I tried to convince them out of their belief, they did it anyway.