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The world is short one Grifter today. Paul Crouch of The Trinity Broadcasting Network has died. (Original Post) A HERETIC I AM Nov 2013 OP
Jan....yikes! SammyWinstonJack Nov 2013 #1
that's one of her better photos. nt grasswire Nov 2013 #15
Double yikes Art_from_Ark Dec 2013 #25
May the poeple they tricked to give them money find peace and healing. hrmjustin Nov 2013 #2
He had been doing some pretty good resting so far, if you ask me A HERETIC I AM Nov 2013 #4
Oh my! hrmjustin Nov 2013 #5
The lord helps those who help themselves. dchill Nov 2013 #6
There's big money in deceiving people, no doubt n/t A HERETIC I AM Nov 2013 #7
That "house" looks like a hotel....! nt MADem Nov 2013 #11
Maybe she could take up with Donald Trump. They obviously have the same hair stylist. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2013 #3
LOL llmart Nov 2013 #8
I am going to take my great grandmere's advice.... MADem Nov 2013 #9
I always quote Moms Mabley in these situations. Frank Cannon Dec 2013 #24
+1!!! nt MADem Dec 2013 #30
LOL! I'll have to remember that one. Raksha Dec 2013 #32
Oh, ffs. Let the body cool before dancing on it. Un-recced. madinmaryland Nov 2013 #10
I'm not dancing. I am relaying news. (Edited) A HERETIC I AM Nov 2013 #12
Sorry, madinmaryland. longship Nov 2013 #14
Do you really think I like these people? I am just saying that we as Democrats and Progressives madinmaryland Nov 2013 #16
Well, you will not hear me say I am glad he's gone. longship Nov 2013 #21
You're right about that... countryjake Dec 2013 #23
I would feel sympathy for those who loved him if they still lived. haele Dec 2013 #33
Well, can't say I'm sorry to see him go. NuclearDem Nov 2013 #13
God bless them and keep them tavernier Nov 2013 #17
I don't know who this guy Trey Smith is... countryjake Nov 2013 #18
That's horrible. polly7 Dec 2013 #28
Those are exactly the sort of folk their "pledge" demands are aimed for... countryjake Dec 2013 #31
Marrying her agent46 Nov 2013 #19
stole from the poor and enriched themselves..... spanone Nov 2013 #20
I thought he was dead already. Major Hogwash Nov 2013 #22
He was the South African government's No. 1 fan. RandySF Dec 2013 #26
She was born in 1938. Given that she's 75, she looks like an old lady pretending to youth. Shrike47 Dec 2013 #27
Getting up off the floor malaise Dec 2013 #29

MADem

(135,425 posts)
9. I am going to take my great grandmere's advice....
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 08:00 PM
Nov 2013

If you can't say something nice, say nothing at all!!!!!

I couldn't find a nice thing to say....

Frank Cannon

(7,570 posts)
24. I always quote Moms Mabley in these situations.
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 06:11 AM
Dec 2013

Never talk about the dead unless you can say something good. He's dead. Good.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,370 posts)
12. I'm not dancing. I am relaying news. (Edited)
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 08:11 PM
Nov 2013

The dancing had begun hours ago by others.

And FWIW, I miss the unrec feature!


And also for what its worth, the guy was a cheat, a liar, a crook and he preyed on the gullible.

Good god damned riddance to bad rubbish.

So there!

longship

(40,416 posts)
14. Sorry, madinmaryland.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 08:16 PM
Nov 2013

No can do. Paul and Jan Crouch were evil people, made themselves ultra rich by doing nothing more than promising Jesus blessings if the they gave them money. And give they did.

Meanwhile, the mansion pictured above isn't their only one, nor is the jet.

These people deserve no respect and no mourning. The couple was going through a divorce recently and their children were already fighting over the spoils of that.

Please don't feel sorry for them.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
16. Do you really think I like these people? I am just saying that we as Democrats and Progressives
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 08:19 PM
Nov 2013

are far better than those on the other side of the aisle that actually do that kind of thing. Disgusts me. Let the body cool.

longship

(40,416 posts)
21. Well, you will not hear me say I am glad he's gone.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 08:32 PM
Nov 2013

But the dude was not a nice guy and although I won't dance on his grave, I'll not be mourning either.

I apologize ahead of time if that offends others.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
23. You're right about that...
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 01:46 AM
Dec 2013

and while I, too, am guilty of doing a little dancing over the news today, I think that what this man represented and undertook as his life's work is what most people are disgusted by and condemning. The TBN should be labeled a criminal enterprise, as far as I'm concerned.

I'm sorry for being crass about a man's death, but I cannot mourn him, nor feel sympathy for those who loved him.

haele

(12,659 posts)
33. I would feel sympathy for those who loved him if they still lived.
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 07:37 PM
Dec 2013

People like that don't usually have "people who loved them" other than perhaps parents, grandparents and the occasional sibling. They have sycophants, business partners, fellow-travelers, and "worshippers" who they prey on. People who "loved" them for the money or the power that followed them. Most of them aren't even really loved - or even really liked - by their own spouses and children. Who can trust a con man who will happily tell comforting stories to coax the last dime from the lonely or frightened, leaving them naked and helpless out in the cold and dark - and then tell his victims it's their own fault for not "trusting" or believing him enough?

The only "sorrow" that tends to truly follow the death of a person like that is the sorrow of those who are going to fight over who gets what crumbs of his empire now that he's no longer there to mouth promises and control the cash flow.

Haele

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
18. I don't know who this guy Trey Smith is...
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 08:27 PM
Nov 2013

but his short clip toward the end of this video, showing the pink-haired woman on tv asking for people to send in their grocery money, leaves me absolutely red with outrage.




But I still don't come close to looking like this:


polly7

(20,582 posts)
28. That's horrible.
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 06:36 AM
Dec 2013

My elderly neighbour lady here gave faithfully every week to a ministry like this as her house literally was falling down around her. She was living on the minimum Old Age Security amount, which isn't much ... and when we helped to clean out her house after she moved into a nursing home in another town, it looked like she'd been living on very little food, and basically owned nothing but a few pieces of tattered and wobbly furniture and of course, her beloved tv. I was running the post office at the time and remember how she'd walk downtown even in the worst weather to get that cheque in. I despise these shucksters. Seeing these pictures of their obscene wealth is nauseating.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
31. Those are exactly the sort of folk their "pledge" demands are aimed for...
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 07:26 PM
Dec 2013

hooking them with the hymn singing, then asking, over and over again, for a chunk of poor elderly people's social security.

And yes, I despise them too.

RandySF

(58,896 posts)
26. He was the South African government's No. 1 fan.
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 06:19 AM
Dec 2013

I had to watch this crap when I was a kid and every other night he would go on air and defend the South African government saying there was no apartheid. He was cozy with the right wingers in El Salvador as well.

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
27. She was born in 1938. Given that she's 75, she looks like an old lady pretending to youth.
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 06:20 AM
Dec 2013

I have never understood why people send money to televangelists, but they do. God bless them.

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