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Benny Hinn: Douchbag in the name of God, or just plain Douchebag?
TheRealCJ
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How's this for using people's fear against them?
Benny Hinn, and vicariously his entire comany (yes, company), are promising to cancel people's debts if they donate on or before the 25th of May. Or more accurately, if you donate money via credit card to Mr. Hinn, he'll put in a good word to God, and see if he can't cancel your debts.
Look, I'm agnostic, I don't know if God exists or not. But according to the very same evangelists - that are claiming that god will cover your debt - God works in 'Mysterious Ways', which seem to me is a fall back plan in case those wheelchair-bound faithful fail to get up on stage.
If The Lord is not going to help you with your inability to walk - a disability that is ususally of not fault to the sufferer, then why would he help with your self-imposed financial debt.
Sorry, I went off on a bit of a tangent there, anyway: Benny Hinn.
If this guy was genuine about appealing to god for financial freedom for his shee- er, flock, why is he making them Donate before he'll actually listen to your prayers. It's simply taking advantage of people who are in the middle of probably the worst times they've had to face in a long time. If you think about it, Benny Hinn isn't just a jerk; He's a pimp. He's making a prostitute out of the God he claims to represent.
Does he really deserve to call himself a messenger for the Lord? More importantly, does he deserve the Tax Exempt status he so cleverly uses to sell shit to believers.
Benny Hinn, and vicariously his entire comany (yes, company), are promising to cancel people's debts if they donate on or before the 25th of May. Or more accurately, if you donate money via credit card to Mr. Hinn, he'll put in a good word to God, and see if he can't cancel your debts.
Look, I'm agnostic, I don't know if God exists or not. But according to the very same evangelists - that are claiming that god will cover your debt - God works in 'Mysterious Ways', which seem to me is a fall back plan in case those wheelchair-bound faithful fail to get up on stage.
If The Lord is not going to help you with your inability to walk - a disability that is ususally of not fault to the sufferer, then why would he help with your self-imposed financial debt.
Sorry, I went off on a bit of a tangent there, anyway: Benny Hinn.
If this guy was genuine about appealing to god for financial freedom for his shee- er, flock, why is he making them Donate before he'll actually listen to your prayers. It's simply taking advantage of people who are in the middle of probably the worst times they've had to face in a long time. If you think about it, Benny Hinn isn't just a jerk; He's a pimp. He's making a prostitute out of the God he claims to represent.
Does he really deserve to call himself a messenger for the Lord? More importantly, does he deserve the Tax Exempt status he so cleverly uses to sell shit to believers.
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http://www.bennyhinn.org/default.cfm This is the main page, with a couple of BIG links to the donate page
https://www.bennyhinn.org/donate/default.cfm?referrer=na_eb050909 This is the page in question, I'm still trying to find the actual open letter that was posted on the site telling people about 'Debt cancellation day'.
Not a bad scam, really. When people's debts fail to magically disappear, he just shakes his head, sighs, and says "What about your spiritual debts? Your bonds to this physical, secular world? That's the debt we were talking about, the parts of yourself that you've invested in sin instead of in service to the Lord our God!"
It's pretty scummy, sure, but the evangelical movement has always been big on making unrealistic promises.
They can all burn in hell, but it would be pretty hard to touch them, what with the freedom of religion and all. Plenty of Churches pass around the collection plate.
Yeah...what of it?
If it's the second option, then you really do get what you pay for on this. In my opinion, its better then most scams (its still a scam) since it seems to be very upfront about it and is simply hiding behind religion. You really do get what you pay for if you send money to him. You get a prayer, with abosolutely 100% no certainty that anything will happen, just like you get with any free prayer.
The lesson to learn is pray yourself or go to your local priest who does this for free, then donate the money out of the goodness of your heart. If God exists, I imagine he would be much happier about that... or just simply give it to the first hobo you find. I bet the Hobo would like that option.
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And I have no original thoughts on the subject of Benny Hinn's fraud other than he's a douche canoe who is abusing people's beliefs (whether they're right or wrong) for his own personal gain. I may not believe in any sort of God but I'm fairly confident the one he claims to put his faith in doesn't much stand for this sort of thing.
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EDIT: Found a better version.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Sounds like he's bought the old Golden Calf from The Ten Commandments and started to worship that.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
It worked with scared, stupid people then, it works with scared, stupid people now. I'd love to see figures on how much they've earned.
Because if there was one thing that encapsulated hypocrisy...
Though oddly enough the OT actually states that debts are to be forgiven every x years and all land is to revert it's god given owner every x*7 years. I think it's 7 and 50 or so but it's been awhile. Year and Jubilee and all that.