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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe world is short one Grifter today. Paul Crouch of The Trinity Broadcasting Network has died.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/30/us/trinity-broadcasting-network-founder-crouch-dies/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
His eternally stylish wife Jan however, is still kickin'
Headline text credit goes to Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian;
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mrs-Betty-Bowers-Americas-Best-Christian/312383761871
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)May he rest in peace.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)dchill
(38,502 posts)Evidently...
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)She makes Tammy Faye look like a fashion model.
MADem
(135,425 posts)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)Never talk about the dead unless you can say something good. He's dead. Good.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Raksha
(7,167 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)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)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)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)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)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)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
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Still, condolences to his family and what not
tavernier
(12,392 posts)far away from me.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)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)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)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.
agent46
(1,262 posts)Marrying her must have been a special kind of kinky. Rest in peace you old dog, you.
spanone
(135,844 posts)RI....
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)He looks like a Vegas hustler in that picture.
RandySF
(58,896 posts)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)I have never understood why people send money to televangelists, but they do. God bless them.