Televangelist Brings Ministry To Houston But Not Without Controversy. (Benny Hinn...

ABC13 Eyewitness News ^ | 2/24/2005 | ABC13 Eyewitness News

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

...Chances are you've seen Benny Hinn on TV, performing his miraculous healings. Houstonian Jackie Deleon went with her mother to see Hinn's crusade during his last visit here.

She was suffering from cancer and for her, Hinn was a last hope. She appeared on TV, apparently being healed by Hinn.

After her appearance, she gave hundreds of dollars she couldn't afford to his crusade and stopped taking her medications. She died three weeks later...

Hinn's ministry denied Eyewitness News requests for an interview and a request for a list of healings.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

1.) Resources on Televangelism

What's Wrong with Benny Hinn?

Listen on MP3

Benny Hinn Audio Track 1: "I am a Little God...I am a little messiah,"

2.) From "What's Wrong With the Faith Movement?" (Part One)

Hinn also admits to frequenting the graves of both Kathryn Kulman and Aimee Semple McPherson to get the "anointing" from their bones. 31

31. Benny Hinn, "Double Portion Anointing, Part #3" (Orlando Christian Center, n.d.), audio tape #A031791-3, sides 1 and 2. This sermon was also aired on TBN (7 April 1991).

1.) and 2.) can be accessed below

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

1.) http://www.whitehorseinn.org/bennyhinn.mp3

2.) http://www.equip.org/free/DC755-1.htm

[since1868]

booked

[Lekker 1]

I just love Benny Hinn. Especially when he's chasing that little old dude Jackie around, in fast motion, while Yackity Sax is playing!

[mbraynard]

I don't know why Robertson/700 club types still have this guy on.

[yellowdoghunter]

He makes Christians look bad. I will never understand how people think it is okay to live like billionairs from tithes or donations people make. I think Jesus would want you to live in a modest home, have your needs taken care of, and then the rest to help those who really need it.

[Bigturbowski]

This sickens me. My mother, a devout Christian falls for these people like Hinn and Bob Tilton and gets bilked out of all kinds of money that could be more well spent on a deserving charity.

It is men like this that tend to drive people away from Christianity calling them whackos and tarnishing our great religion. He should be imprisoned with the rest of their kind and repay the millions they pilfer yearly from good people.

[Liberal Classic]

That's tonight? Ug. Wonder if there will be anyone protesting him?

[tallhappy]

What's Wrong with Benny Hinn?

He's a fake. A charaltan first and foremost.

Even if his docrtine were not outside the norm, his fakery would be enough to reveal him.

Still, Hinn has been doing his show for a long time. I'm not sure why it is news.

[since1868]

I like Robertson and I also wondered why they have him on.

[battlegearboat]

We usually have the Benny Hill picture up by now...?

[yellowdoghunter]

Me too, it makes Robertson look bad to have him on.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Snake oil salesmen might take offense at you lumping him in with them....

[maestro]

Televangelist Brings Ministry To Houston But Not Without Controversy. (Benny Hinn...

THEN.....Benny to buy out Robert Schuller!

THEN,....Benny to buy out 'TBN'.....

THEN,....Benny to buy out Franklin Graham

THEN,....Benny to buy out Guru ________

THEN,....Benny to buy out the Dali Lamba

THEN,....Benny to make a Mel Gibson 'Pope' Movie with Michael Jackson....Benny to 'star' as 'Pope'

naw...

/sarcasm

[Carpe Cerevisi]

I liked it when he'd slap that little old man on the top of his head! Oh, and that wacky salute with his hat on sideways. Good stuff.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

No, it was a few days ago. I didn't notice this on FR so I decided to post it.

[timtoews5292004]

He also has claimed that the dead would rise again if you put them in front of the TV set while his crusade was on. Dateline NBC is doing an expose on the guy, or has recently. I think it was supposed to air this week, but I missed it cause I was at church.

[Vicki]

He's on the same level as Robert Tilton. Tilton was caught taking all the money out of the envelopes sent in and the prayer requests that people made were tossed out in a dumpster in the back of his building.

I don't know how people can believe in these guys.

[bigfootbob]

M-O-N-E-Y

You'd not believe all the little old ladies who believe his charlatanism and send in their envelopes stuffed with a portion of their subsistence money hoping to insure they go to heaven.

My mom and aunt gave dough to Benny Hinn's predecessor, Oral Roberts. It drove me nuts. My mom even gave dough to Jimmy Swaggart.

[B Knotts]

[Minus_The_Bear]

This video is all you need to know about Hinn and his dealings...

WARNING: It's in REAL format so you'll need REAL Alternative or REAL Player.

[SaveTheChief]

Great... Now I'll have that song in my head all day.

[Lekker 1]

Major Scuttle at your service!

[texaschick]

Hank Hannegraf wrote an excellant book about modern day faith healers like Hinn and his bunch. It's called Christianity in Crisis. I highly recommend it.

[Swanks]

He has now moved his family (daughter, son-in-law) onto the gravy train. They 'lay over' between engagements in the Carribean, etc. in $3,000 to $4,000 per nighte hotel rooms, go shopping, and send the bills to the ministry, er, supporters.

Anyone funding these people are fools that deserve to have their money seperated from their wallets.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

They already aired it.

Go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7090144/

Not much, though.

[Asclepius]

Hinn also admits to frequenting the graves of both Kathryn Kulman and Aimee Semple McPherson to get the "anointing" from their bones. 31

I heard some Christians drink the body and eat the blood of Christ. Or something like that. And what about that die and be born again stuff. Or the rupture (rapture?--only what's rapt about it?), when all the believers get sucked out through a rent in the sky and leave SATAN INC. controlling the federal reserve. Or priests practicing celibacy, or not practicing it enough.

It's enough to give you the willies.

[ARA]

were you at Benny Hinn Church?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Part and parcel of the American experience.

They will always be with us. That genre died down for awhile after the Trinity Ministries here in Dallas exposed Robert Tilton after much hard work. He is still trying to sneak back in the back door. Exposing them is the only antidote but that takes media cooperation. Fortunately they are usually eager to jump on anything Christian in order to discredit us all. We need to keep the heat on this Hinn character by asking the media to expose him.

[scripter]

Bookmarked to read later.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

I agree. Christianity in Crisis was an excellent read. Most enlightening.

[Liberal Classic]

Oh, I just noticed the date on the channel 13 website.

[Portnoy]

I've always enjoyed reading Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis.

[DaveLoneRanger]

Binny Henn is crazy. He has made many false predictions, his showy policies are not in accordance with Scripture, and he gives Christians a bad name. He believes that, since Adam had dominion over all the animals, Adam could fly.

Birdie birdie in the sky
Drop a bird-bomb in my eye
I don't mind when you fly by
But I'm sure glad that cows don't fly

[timtoews5292004]

uh, no. his church is in orlando, I think. I am in KY. I used him, the great people at TBN, and a couple other religious broadcasters as fodder for a paper I wrote about religion and television during graduate school. The things some of those people say boggles the mind.

[4everontheRight]

He was here locally a few years back and a local radio show was talking about the appearance and people were calling in to tell stories about the crusade. Apparently one man had a ill mother in a wheel chair who he wanted to get on stage to be "healed" by Hinn and was told pretty much to go F himself. Others called in who had worked with a private company to collect money during the show and a few said that the "healed" people were all kept in a room in the back and brought out and mingled into the audience.

[A_TN_VOL]

There is only one true TV healer. Errr...nest Annn...sely!!!! Ha-la-lu-ya!!!!!!

[reagan_fanatic]

Follow some of the Internet links on this guy...absolutely incredible that anyone follows someone so blatantly false as Hinn.

TBN keeps this guy on for one reason and one reason only - MONEY. They know full well he's a fraud and a fake, but they just can't resist the lure of the mountains of cash he hauls in.

Benny Hinn is a money-grubbing, self-absorbed false prophet who could make his brain-dead followers believe the Sun revolves around the Earth if he wanted to. As a Christian, I am absolutely appalled by this man's trickery and deceit in the name of the Lord.

[timtoews5292004]

well shoot. I guess thats what I get for not setting the VCR.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Yes, unfortunately, when the MSM finds someone they think is a charlatan, then somehow, someway, they will try and use the ole' broad brush stroke and paint all Christians the same.

[Sender]

Touchy healers like Benny Hinn and Peter Popoff give me the willies. You can get many injured/invalid people to jump up and dance around for a minute if they're excited enough. It doesn't mean they didn't fall down later off-camera. But please, send in those seeds of faith!

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

How's it going Scrip? Check out link #2.

Enlightening.

[Range Rover]

I was sent this a few years ago and almost hurt myself laughing

For those not easily offended...Robert Tilton is PASTOR GAS

pastor gas 1

pastor gas 2

[D Edmund Joaquin]

never go to a church where the pastors wear Rolexs and ride in limousines

[Frank_Discussion]

OMG.

[richmwill]

Glad to see that not many Christians are fooled by Hinn. (At least on here- he seems to be wearing nice clothes when I see him on TV, so some poor old ladies are obviously still being robbed by this guy)

[4everontheRight]

My son LOVES those!! I personally find the second one so much funnier then the first one...it is scary how real it looks