Comments on: Hard Questions For "Prosperity Gospel"

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

[sade1231]

another thing to bm6005 read, please do america a favor and read. there is no excuse for hatred or your unjust attitude toward these relgious people. thousands I do mean thousands of religious leaders have given ( I have been in the meetings and have federal documenatations) the president strategic advice on Education ( no child left behind - which seems not to be working since we had 38 percent of high school seniors didnot graduate from high school in the USA 2006-2007, that is highest in the history of education-, advice on war departures and possible withdrawl quickly, wars starts rumors of wars and its costly, verterns and troop-family funding ( troops and verterns are struggling to survive because of no funding to assist them or their families) health insurance for middle class, and poor, urban and inner city community funding, etc... but noooooooo your Bush administration ( no offense) did not want to listen. Rev, TD Jakes, Eddie Long, creflo Dollar, has been to the white house numerous of times to sit down with the president to give he and his administration hard core facts and truth about the communities his administration seems to be over looking also funding in, africa, hatti, israel, funding for hurricane katrina, wilma, victims, etc. however, the committee ignored them, so therefore they resigned as being religious advisors. this was all in NYC, times magazine, USA today, washington post.

[bm6005]

I welcome your threat SaDe!! Cousin Guido has been looking for a new playmate.

[bm6005]

This c rap has been going on for years. This is not anything new nor is it half baked info. Many of these religious leaders such as , Jim and Tammy Faye Baker were living high on the hog while their religious theme park was stealing money from shareholders. Remember their air conditioned dog house? There are just too many instances to call up right now but this preying on the faithful is just not christian at all. Are you saying Joel Olsteen was a millionaire in a previous life? BS, he''s still wet behind the ears. How about the guy with his "magic spring water"? Another *** fraud. Give me a break!!

[sade1231]

bm6005 if you think I am going to back and forth with you, then I think you might as well go play in traffic..


pay taxes and tax non profit audits is the same thing, stop being but-hole and think for a change please. I hope you owe the government in taxes this year, I hope it comes across my desk, Please give me that honor. I will be the first one to sign off on possible IRS fine with no chases and no mercy. I will just save your IP address and any info to the database government drive. So **** me off. You are busy thinking I am defending someone tactics when you have not even looked at reality and facts. facts has proven this report by CBS is lame, so last year, too late, and too short on info.

[sade1231]

Also CBS failed to mention that these same religious leaders were millionaires before they became preachers. Also, they have several successful businesses. NOW that they are ministers, they also have successful businesses which are separate from their churches and religious meetings or churches. This is federal facts. Not assumptions. I think you all need to watch NBC to hear the whole story. So for all you who are making a fool of yourselves by responding on half information, keep quiet until you know all the details, which CBS has NOT given.

[bm6005]

I said pay taxes not get audited "dumba ss"!!

[sade1231]

Go to hell man. READ A IRS TAX BOOK. I am not religious and don''t want to be. but I do know for a fact that they do get audited by the IRS, because I work for the IRS. so Don''t tell me. I just did their audits ...*******!

[bm6005]

Sorry SaDe but they don''t F*Kn pay taxes on their RELIGIOUS business. Only what they may admit to as a separate outside business. I remember when I was young, a hillbilly minister was wearing $300 suits and driving a cadillac when regular suits cost a $100 and his parishoners were all driving ''49 fords!! It''s a scam, ALL religion sucks and you''re the dumb a ss!! So out of 50,000 ministers in the country you''re saying that 25,000 of them have given the WH advice? What kind of advice has anyone followed to get us out of war, the debt,etc. I guess I can believe that as F*k''d up as our country has become!

[clearview8]

This nation was founded upon a quest for religious freedom. Separation of church and state has been ingrained into governance by the founding fathers to ensure that the church does not control the government (as was the case in western europe in the middle ages) and to ensure that the government does not control the freedom of worship (what ever you worship). I am a bornagain christian who supports the copeland ministry financially and prayerfully,and my bible tells me to minister (give) worldly things to those who minister to me spiritual things(Rom 15:27), also there were women who taveled with Jesus and took care of his needs with their wealth(Luke 8:3), Finally the priests(Levites) who served in the old testerment temple were mandated not to work but live off the offerings from the other tribes in Israel(Deut.18:1, 2 Chronicles 30:22). I therefore see this ivestigation as censureship of religious practice. Every high performing CEO gets big bonuses enough to buy several jets ( even the bad perfoming ones e.g countrywide), how ever you pick on an upstanding preacher of the gospel , who has been at it for 40 years in this country and was a pilot and has flown planes since he started, because he is blessed like faithfull Abraham just as he preaches (Galatians 3:9-14). May you not destroy the foundation of this great nation.

[banjo20072]

Also went to the Copeland website (www.kcm.org) and I found a posting that they already sent whatever Grassley wanted to his office on December 6th - so this news report is about 3 months too late.