Hinn was invited to join a delegation of pastors to meet with Trump during the 2016 campaign, but sent an emissary instead. The Daily Beast speculated that his absence may have had something to do with the presence of Paula White, another prosperity preacher and Trump’s closest spiritual adviser, who was accused of having an affair with Hinn in 2010 (he refuted such accusations).

He won't get off free with all of them. Let's face it, Obama/Democrats can't be more despised by most of the hard-core RR, no loss there, but since they took Rump on anything from true faith to a nervous leap he has credit to lose. Hope, hope.

Jim and Tammy had a huge spread in South Carolina along with an air conditioned dog house while they scammed their followers.

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

He's selling "doomsday survival food buckets."

but I actually thought he was dead. I know his wife is.

I will never forget visiting his theme park where there were signs posted "only Christian bathing attire allowed".

That place was creepy, just like those two.

It's abandoned and a wreck.

http://www.tommyandjames.net/heritageusa.html

that's a nightmare! The only thing I really remember is the inside of the shops and there was a high ceiling which was supposed to make you think of the heavens above!

I lived near enough in the '80's and went there a couple of times just to say I'd seen it. I already thought the Bakkers were fakes from their TV show. I saw Tammy Faye in a shopping mall once and she had even more makeup on in person than on TV!

They were both scam artists.

yup

be revealed for the self-serving egotists they are.

The sad thing is, he probably has convinced himself that he lives up to his hype.

Adoring crowds that throw their last dollars at you can be like heroin, and men who feel like they have been underappreciated don't give up that kind of fix until they are hauled off to jail, or drop dead from cancer or something, drinking in that sweet, sweet validation.

a reject from a bad 80's hair band?

wife of ex-con/preacher Jim Bakker

I met her years later at Sun Dance film festival, post-Jim with her "friend" and prior to her cancer.

She was very apologetic about all the things she did in the past.

I think she probably knew she had cancer at that point, but it wasn't apparent to everyone else yet, and was trying to scrape her "soul" clean before her leap into the great beyond.

fucking grifters.

Known for enormous pink hairlike edifices.

It's hard work to keep straight on all of those thieving "X-tian" con artists.

It isn't Tammy Faye Bakker

If these evangelists can truly heal, why aren't they visiting hospitals and cancer clinics?

1. Revival shows pay much, much better.

2. The results can be verified.

CASH!

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Those who follow these flim flam men would do well to remember that Christ Himself said that "My kingdom is not of this world."

and a vengeful god like Yahweh. People like these assholes belong there.

and a fucking grifter

On the one side, Benny is (in my personal opinion) a total fraud, crook, grifter. The worst of the con men. Who "sells" otherworldly rewards to the most vulnerable.

On the other side, you have the most hated of the conservative cult. The IRS, that is not only an essential but actually profitable government organization, and the US Postal Service, also an organization that pays billions into the Treasury.

Plus, of course, the religious issue.

Think of our Supreme Court. Our right wing media. Our Attorney General.

Looks like a perfect storm a-brewin".

will howl about being persecuted. And their numbnuts followers will eat it up.

Of course the modern-day devils masquerading as TeeVee preachers demonize the IRS and the Postal Service--two entities with the power to take them on and expose their criminality.

lol

and he would bring 'em back to life, right then and there. It did involve placing big money in Hinn's offshore bank accounts, of course, but hey--he wouldn't lie to ya, would he?

For a very long time now, Hinn and his ilk have made me physically ill. They also made me turn tail and run, not walk, away from the fundamentalist evangelical arena I'd been a part of for most of my life. Would love to see the results of this investigation destroy Hinn and his so-called "ministry". Since I'm now an atheist, it wouldn't convince me god's finally whacking Benny with a rod of iron, but would go a ways towards my notion that justice is possible.

Have a feeling that won't happen, which is why I continue to call myself the Tired Old Cynic.

Thanks for sharing that disturbing but very revealing anecdote.

You know, I met him once. I lived in Laguna Beach, CA, some years ago, and I ran into him a couple of times at the local health food store. Besides the surprise of seeing him in one at all, I remember being struck by how paranoid he seemed - especially given that he had a 7 foot tall, 300lb+ bodyguard.

It was quite a sight. Benny Hinn, practically a midget, with his toupée; his fat, ill-bred little boy, running around the store with some kind of ADHD issue; and this thug that looked like something out of the Duvalier dictatorship (probably was).

Oh, well. Life's little postcards.

At the time, I was reading a book about the "prosperity preachers" (so called), and I was beyond horrified at what Hinn was putting out there, plus especially confused by those who supported him spiritually and financially. Simply boggled my mind, as the saying goes. Your account of your meetings with him sickens me. Sorry you had to go through that. As you said, life's little postcards, definitely from the edge of insanity.

Stay strong and blessings.