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Family Feud Reveals Luxuries At Largest Christian TV Network [Televangelist Crooks Galore!]
MSNBC ^ | May 05, 2012 | Erik Eckholm

Posted on 05/05/2012 4:49:14 PM PDT by Steelfish

Family Feud Reveals Luxuries At Largest Christian TV Network Granddaughter attacks founders, who accuse her of embezzlement

The Trinity Broadcasting Network, which also runs the Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, Fla., is at the center of a family battle.

By Erik Eckholm

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — For 39 years, the Trinity Broadcasting Network has urged viewers to give generously and reap the Lord’s bounty in return.

The prosperity gospel preached by Paul and Janice Crouch, who built a single station into the world’s largest Christian television network, has worked out well for them.

Mr. and Mrs. Crouch have his-and-her mansions one street apart in a gated community here, provided by the network using viewer donations and tax-free earnings. But Mrs. Crouch, 74, rarely sleeps in the $5.6 million house with tennis court and pool. She mostly lives in a large company house near Orlando, Fla., where she runs a side business, the Holy Land Experience theme park. Mr. Crouch, 78, has an adjacent home there too, but rarely visits. Its occupant is often a security guard who doubles as Mrs. Crouch’s chauffeur.

The twin sets of luxury homes only hint at the high living enjoyed by the Crouches, inspirational television personalities whose multitudes of stations and satellite signals reach millions of worshipers across the globe. Almost since they started in the 1970s, the couple have been criticized for secrecy about their use of donations, which totaled $93 million in 2010.

Now, after an upheaval with Shakespearean echoes, one son in this first family of televangelism has ousted the other to become the heir apparent. A granddaughter, who was in charge of TBN’s finances, has gone public with the most detailed allegations of financial improprieties yet, which TBN has denied, saying its practices were audited and legal.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crouch; tbn; televangelists
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To: WestwardHo

It DOES help to read the Bible : )


21 posted on 05/05/2012 5:25:16 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: WestwardHo

” Lord, have mercy on our nation!”

I pray he does!


22 posted on 05/05/2012 5:26:36 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Steelfish

TBN—The Blasphemy Network. There’s hardly one (maybe only 2%) that teaches the true Gospel on that station. It’s pretty pathetic.


23 posted on 05/05/2012 5:27:09 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: truth_seeker

” Conservative Orange County is very well represented in this industry.”

Nice weather....ocean.....good restaurants......... : )


24 posted on 05/05/2012 5:28:44 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Steelfish
The story behind the story is that virtually any religion, once it gains a critical mass, becomes corrupted by money, power, and political influence. And despite any protestations you may hear to the contrary, none are immune.
25 posted on 05/05/2012 5:31:06 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Tex-Con-Man

That’s basically the purpose of these wolves. Turn people away from the Gospel.


26 posted on 05/05/2012 5:37:18 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Steelfish

BFL


27 posted on 05/05/2012 5:43:05 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Jonty30

Wonder what Jim Wallis pulls in per year.


28 posted on 05/05/2012 5:43:44 PM PDT by boop (I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. ...Ernest Borgnine)
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To: Steelfish

There's a special place in hell for people with this sort of taste...

29 posted on 05/05/2012 5:57:59 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Steelfish
"Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself." (I Timothy 6:5)
30 posted on 05/05/2012 6:03:06 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Anybody but Obama and Romney)
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To: SpaceBar
The story behind the story is that virtually any religion, once it gains a critical mass, becomes corrupted by money, power, and political influence. And despite any protestations you may hear to the contrary, none are immune.

This is why the only church Jesus Christ authorised as His Body is the local church assembly.

31 posted on 05/05/2012 6:05:25 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Anybody but Obama and Romney)
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To: Steelfish
More religious hucksters, You know, kinda like Islam!
32 posted on 05/05/2012 6:07:44 PM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: Steelfish

Well, color me shocked. /sarc


33 posted on 05/05/2012 6:10:45 PM PDT by richmwill
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To: Yashcheritsiy

You are so right - Jesus had great disdain for the hierarchy of the religious professionals.


34 posted on 05/05/2012 6:20:31 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: Steelfish
I'm shocked, I tell ya, they're so nice!


35 posted on 05/05/2012 6:21:57 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Steelfish
Needless to say, my and your favorite televangelist is A-OK, isn't he?! (Until he gets caught and then we'll be shocked!)
36 posted on 05/05/2012 6:25:32 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJati2W7uA


37 posted on 05/05/2012 6:36:34 PM PDT by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
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To: mkjessup

LOL!!


38 posted on 05/05/2012 6:42:52 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Steelfish

Nothing like a clean outer vessel.


39 posted on 05/05/2012 7:07:19 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: mkjessup
Man O man was that funny....I remember that show...Helen Reddy, Joan Rivers (when she actually looked 1/2 way good) and REDD FOXX...Funny Stuff.
and not to be outdone by...
Richard Pryor - The Negro Exorcist - comedy sketch (1974)
40 posted on 05/05/2012 7:09:06 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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