Comments on: Hard Questions For "Prosperity Gospel"

A Televangelist Lives In The Lap Of Luxury -- But Now He's Under Investigation

[snoopy28173]

What a laugh. Prosperit gosel that is. All they preach is that the more money you give to them the more you will get in return. So people go into debt while these preacher jerks get what they want and lavish it up.

Reminds me of Jim and Tammy Fay Baker.

[bluecat1208]

I am not at all surprised by this report. I have long held that televangelists had a personal interest in the moneies collected. I left a church several years ago that I thought was doing the same as Rev Copeland and many of his contemporaries. I was not disgruntled I was dissapointed. To those of you who brought up his prior businesses I ask; Why didn''t he provide that information himself?
Well that''s all folks.

[marisebai]

There%u2019s legal language nearby. Here''s the plain English: no libel, slander, no lying, no fabricating, no swearing at all, no words that teenagers use a lot that some people think aren''t swearing but we do, no insulting groups or individuals, no ethnic slurs and/or epithets, no religious bigotry, no threats of any kind, no bathroom humor, no comparing anyone to Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot. We expect heated, robust debate, but comments should be polite and civil. We consider this to be public space so behave and write accordingly.

***hhmmmm - I wonder if calling someone a but-hole and threatening them with "Insulting a Federal Agent" would violate any of these rules. Reminds me of all the reasons I could not join a "suppose to be" adult discussion - you get one person who wants to throw around "status quo & rank" and we are all suppose to shudder in our boots and obey. What happened to Freedom of Speech? For someone that works for the Federal Government "IRS - WOW" - you are not very educated about the Ammendments that we each have as individual Citizens - starting with Freedom of Speech.
And you can copy my IP address all you want - I live on Federal Property - whoot whoot!

[skyk-2009]

It''s time we brought this all to an end. Any group, church or not, that does NOT use money for the purpose we, the taxpayers, intended should be taxed. The purpose of these exclusions was CHARITABLE. The law says that and unless the dictionary has been changed the meaning of that word does NOT enclude TV Stations, Broadcast Empires, Car''s, Boats, or any of the rest. It means they give the money to those who NEED it. I hardly think this person, Pat Robertson or any of the rest of these crooks are giving that money to anyone in need. IT''s a rip off and I''m tired of it!!

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by SaDe1231

In fact, the more I read of your posts, it seems that you are the one treading on dangerous ground.

If you are indeed an IRS official, making threats to use the authority of a government agency against citizens simply because you disagree with their political views is corruption, and since your threats are now on record, you may very well be the one landing in hot water.

Conversely, if you are not really an agent of a federal institution, you can be in hot water for impersonating one.

If you have the IP of the person to whom you make this threat, then you may be in violation of various privacy acts, as no IP addresses are given here, you would have to engage in illegal hacking to obtain it.

[brianbwb-2009]

"...because you are headed for insulting a federal agent." Posted by SaDe1231

Nothing illegal about that, in fact the right to do so is guaranteed under the constitution. Besides, a lot of those corrupt, drug running, Mob friendly toilet scum could use a bit more than an insult...

Back to the subject, in the 50s and 60s there was a "Black" preacher, named Rev. Ike, who preached the same gospel of riches, sold "free" prayer cloths, personally "blessed" by him, for $1.

He was a wealthy man, it seems that hope sells, or else the lotteries and numbers rackets as well as Las Vegas wouldn''t be as successful as they are.

If suckers want to pay for hope, let them, but the sellers of it should not enjoy tax free status, just because they sell it in the name of religion.

[ppas2004]

This is lunacy. It is clear that this is all for personal gain. Therefore this man and his family should be taxed. I am not a fan of grassley, but I think these charlatans need to pay taxes. Plz pardon my misspellings.

[sade1231]

well I tried to bring most of the facts on here, hey its up to you all to make a sound just, fair judgement. people are so quick to believe in half truth in this country its ridiculous. Go after the facts, that way each of you can make a just and sound decision, not a judgemental one.

[sade1231]

I said all this to say, truth will always rise up, even when people try to cover it up, and with these new documents waiting to be revealed, I''m just waiting when all this will back fire on senator grssely, and ole Anthony. Sure there are a few bad apples in the religious bunch, thats in every community, but they better be careful of not making the misatke of going after the good ones, and putting them in the basket with the bad apples, for their own gain and pleasue. I am waiting for Senator grassley and his office to be investigated, I''m waiting for the investigation of these dirty politicans I would like to expose, which I have the paper work on, who is taking our tax dollars and going on three month vacations, who are buying the city of new orleans instead buying people homes, and spending our money on a super dome instead of people who are still in trailers dying everyday because of no medical care or mental despression, I want to expose these congress men and women, who live filthy rich based on tax dollars collected from poor neighboorhoods. if we are going to expose lets start with the man who is first throwing the stone, senator grassley.

[sade1231]

6m whatever your name is...don''t **** me off please, for your sake. You don''t even want this challenge. Because your but is already broke, not put more issues on yourself because you are headed for insulting a federal agent. And the only person who will be jail, will be you. I bet my job on it and my career. SO don''t go there. The law always wins buddy! I am trying to ignore your ignorant A**. and trying my best to talk to you like you have an ounce of maturity. I tell you want the kids section of this website is a click away. go join them. This is for the grown and mature adults. No one is defending anyone, but the facts. Facts and federal documents speaks for themselves.

wait so You are judging them based on Jim baker and tammy Faye? what the hell? these people are not them, and that is not fair for you cast them in the same bad apple basket when federal documents proves there innocent.