![]() It takes a lot of chutzpah to hit up 200,000 people for the approximate sticker price of an Xbox One, especially when facing unsavory allegations about using a fake name (no!) and reports that members of his flock had to show their W2 forms like entry passes. (He's even * GASP* flying "commercial just like anyone else.") And it's doubtful the feds would be interested if he were truly living like some Dickensian guttersnipe now, as he claims to be. Considering the organizations involved, chances are slim that investigation had anything to do with Hinn's son beating the snot out of a handicapped man in Brazil a few years ago (a hefty payoff appears to have solved that one). ![]() Postal Service inspectors who raided his North Texas headquarters last year. Unfortunately for Hinn, any change of heart regarding siphoning outrageous funds from the gullible had little effect on the IRS and U.S. After the death of Billy Graham, Hinn expressed remorse at accumulating more cash than eight Pamela Andersons: "We get attacked for preaching prosperity, well it's in the Bible, but I think some have gone to the extreme with it sadly, and it's not God's word what is taught and I think I'm as guilty as others." Hinn is a longtime proponent of the prosperity gospel (aka "If you donate to me, God will make you rich" - it's kind of a spiritual cryptocurrency scheme), but after all the years of pretending that his flying jacket heals the infirm, perhaps the man does have some decency and shame after all. Worse, not only was the the promise of a cure a lie, but money that was raised for his treatment somehow seems to have not gone to him, but was instead delivered straight to church coffers.īenny Hinn Ministries At least the ER doctor will have a good laugh when he hears why his patient has a lumbar fracture. Most recently, a legally blind recipient of one of his "BAM you're healed" spectacles actually came forward to reveal the unthinkable: He still couldn't see for crap. Like many "healers" and basic cable holy men who've been in the game for a while, Benny Hinn has no shortage of the kind of controversies and debacles that might cause a reasonable person to doubt his supernatural abilities. ![]() 6 Benny Hinn Regrets His Prosperity (As The IRS Closes In) Some of these guys who became wealthy faith-healing superstars in the '80s and '90s are still around. Just because wacky televangelists aren't a staple of the news cycle anymore (the Joel Osteen follies notwithstanding) doesn't mean that this particular breed of huckster has become a thing of the past.
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