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Politics : The Clown-Free Bible Study Zone -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S. maltophilia who wrote (1597)	3/30/2009 2:07:41 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2103

Don't these people ever read a Bible? Yes, but, they cherry-pick what they want from it to feed their corrupt desires. The con artists are all over the American church with their cheap tricks and phony phenomena. There is a huge market for it apparently. I read somewhere that a stage hypnotist was studying a video of a Benny Hinn crusade. He remarked that what Hinn did was considered very unethical in their business. First, that he put them into a state of mass hypnotism; then he left the people in that condition without breaking the trance. It's interesting how such crusades as his are done. They're is a definite science to it. Pack people together. The less space there is between bodies, the less free the mind is able to think critically. Then, singing songs repetitively lulls the mind even further. Yet, the number one factor that creates this numbed state of consciousness is that a couple of months prior to the crusade, it was announced that it would be a "miracle crusade." In my view, those two words are nothing short of a stroke of genius. It is those two words that earns Benny Hinn over 200 million in annual revenue. Think of it. That's $100 million per word! The excitement and hope that the promise of miracles generates is predictable. The 60 to 90 days lead time allows the masses to get together to meet at the arena. They've been set up for the show. Money is set to fly out of their pockets. After they've been suitably warmed up and numbed down - with about an hour of so-called praise and worship, Hinn makes his appearance. He always appears on the same song: How Great Thou Art. One does not have to wonder long why that song. Then, he waves his coat at people to knock them down with some invisible power. That is all he ever does, that one-trick pony. No one sees through it. They can't. They're too well conditioned. Hinn has never supplied satisfactory evidence for even one organic miracle despite his constant claims of them that he makes on the spot, then later on his TV program. He couldn't heal a worm if he fasted for forty days. In my opinion, he is a social terrorist. His crusades are invasions into communities. In his wake are the victims who he has devastated with false hope as he leaves with their money. Yet, the disabled victim thinks it's his fault Jesus passed him by that night, little realizing that He was never there at all. No one will ever stop the Hinns of this world. The local economies are too blessed by their arrivals - the restaurants, hotels, gas stations, etc. I blame the pastors, mostly. They not only don't speak up against the wolves, but they also welcome them in to prey on their own people. They're either hirelings, dangerously naive or wolves-in-training. Years ago, I admit I was oblivious to the influence of the con men on both me and our people. As soon as the Lord woke me up, I started to out them with a vengeance - by name. I got silenced by the senior pastor. That was the last I ever saw of that church. And, that was after 25 years of service there.