Posted on 01/24/2005 10:20:39 PM PST by Gengis Khan
Who was paid off?
Was paying this off cheaper than facing even false charges backed by every liberal ACLU type in the country who would spend them into poverty?
One thing common about charlatans is that you will find them in every religion.
I hope there is a special place in Hell for people who try and enrich themselves on the suffering of others. To tantalize the blind, the lame, the dying, the afflicted, the terminally ill, to dangle hope before parents of a severely afflicted child, is an indescribably cruel thing to do, and to do it in the name of God, to do it in the name of religion, I think, is unforgivable.I'll echo Nickel's last word after quoting this passage: "Amen."
This fellow at this site uses the LA Times as the word of all truth regarding the issue you mentioned. He even says he relies on the LA Times for this story and offers NO KNOWLEDGE of his own on the matter.
Now we saw how fair the LA Times was to Bush and Christians in general all last year and during the elections.
They got it right about what, 5% of the time with 95% bias?
The Los Angeles Times is validity for you? Interesting.
Cute, but this Nickel is a Senior fellow of the website you directed me to and they are very much associated with lots of aethiests all through the net.
Doesn't that smell the least bit fishy to you and do you really expect atheists to use science to validate anything Christian of of faith in your lifetime?
Amen
never ever in the history of these so called healers has someone grown another leg, arm or eyeball when they have been missing them,, somehow out of the millions healed God decided to only heal unseen problems and deemed bone spurs, ankle injuries or bad hearing more important to heal than devastating injuries,,,,,,,,, and I loved the guys response when Hinn says with pride he has visited twice with the Pope and the guy said why didn't you volunteer to try to heal all the Popes afflictions then,,,LOL,,,
The same preachers, ministers and priests have no problem asking for money to allow their Church to hear them speak the word of God.
If there is a healing ministry, it is your position that they should operate only while broke? Makes no sense to me.
I figure the fact that they travel the world is a staggering cost. They have to pay unions to run equipment. They have to buy and maintain the set and equipment, phones, employees and so forth.
You can't do that broke.
Now I'm sure there are other genuine faith healers that do this ministry different on a small local scale and they might be able to do it on five bucks a day.
It all depends on the circumstances, but I don't ridicule a ministry that collects money, what faith doesn't do that today with all the lives and buildings to finance?
And in every profession on earth. It is a human failing due to a sin nature.
What makes you think the Pope is meant to be healed?
Whether Crouch did or didn't engage in the behavior attributed to him in the article, he shouldn't have paid hush money, and I hope he didn't. It's tantamount to bribery.
The problem with TBN having an employee make accusations like this is that there are a gazillion layers from the ACLU and elsewhere willing to drag the issue into court and cause TBN expenses in the many millions to defend.
TBN is a target. Christianity is a target.
Becomes much cheaper to pay once and them never allow privacy with employees again for safety.
That's one of the reasons why these days lots of doors remain open so people can witness nothing happening.
It's too easy to make charges and gain a great pay day.
Like I said, Hinn isn't my cup of tea, but I do not think TBN thinks he is a phony.
I also think the local paper on which this tread was started would not exactly be thrilled with any form of Christianity.
If one has done nothing wrong, one shouldn't encourage others to question one's integrity and morality because one didn't have the stomach to face down a false accuser and resorted to payoffs instead.
The philosophy is nice, but the reality is that such a case would cripple TBN in court to defend.
Millions in costs to defend.
Would not only break the bank, but would allow what could be easily false accusations to be spoken like gospel through a trial which would make many members of their ministry to leave even if this was a false accusation.
So once, you pay something off, and the lesson you learn is to NEVER be alone with an employee again and to leave the doors open during most meetings and all where there are just two people who aren't married.
The cost of defending the truth and their honor could have easily wiped them out.
Similar crud is happening all through life, which is why there are open doors and many cameras installed to prove what did NOT happen.
AGAIN, I think Hinn (just like all ministers, preachers and priests) asks for donations.
It is scriptural to give to the CHURCH and at times the CHURCH might be the local healer.
I have never heard Hinn claim the healing is from him, he has always claimed that Christ deserves the glory and does the healing.
I am no fan of his style, but God works many times through those we least approve of. I don't know that this Hinn is false at all.
I'm not so sure he teaches any false thing either.
Why do most people believe Michael Jackson is guilty of pedophilia?
Because he paid off an accuser's family.
Assuming his innocence, Crouch has lost far more integrity via this purported payoff than he would have had he stood in front of a court, faced down his accuser and denied engaging in the behavior.
It could conceivably have cost him millions to do it, but what's more important? His solvency or his integrity as a man of God?
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