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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/07/2005 : 11:31:59
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Probably not, but this lends a tiny ray of hope that another sanctimonious grifter might go down a'la Jim Bakker. quote:
IRS investigating televangelist's operation, report says
Associated Press
DALLAS — The Internal Revenue Service is looking into the operations and finances of televangelist Benny Hinn's organization, according to a published report.
The IRS wouldn't discuss the case, but a representative for Benny Hinn Ministries confirmed to The Dallas Morning News that the inquiry is under way, characterizing it as routine.
Critics have argued that Hinn improperly profits from a ministry that hasn't met the IRS definition of a church for years. The ministry is estimated to raise more than $100 million a year.
Hinn is long overdue. Of all of the human vultures that prey upon the weak and helpless, he is among the worst. I really think that I'd like to see him convicted and locked down almost as much as I'd like to see Rove clobbered. And I really want to see Rove get it in the neck!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
 Posted - 07/07/2005 : 11:57:47 [Permalink]
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I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2005 : 23:48:25 [Permalink]
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Then get Edwards
Edwards (if you are referring to the highly skilled cold reader, John Edwards) is much smarter than the likes of Hinn... I'm sure his finances are in ship-shape order. Besides, he has never officially declared his operation as anything other than entertainment, whatever impression he may give in his live acts. The SciFi show always had the "entertainment" disclaimer, anyway.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
775 Posts |
Posted - 07/08/2005 : 00:18:23 [Permalink]
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filthy...After I read your post, I leaned back in my chair and let my mind wander. A picture of Hinn ran throuh my mind. He'd exchanged his white suit for orange coveralls. He held bed clothes in his arms. He walked through the doorway into a small, dirty room in Huntsville Correctional and got his first glimps of Bubba, his room mate for the next few years. Benny's eyes opened wide and his jaw dropped. It was as if the true weight of his situation had finally dawned on him.
Bubba put one big, hairy mit on Benny's shoulder, looked down on the little man, and smiled lustily....
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"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country." Dubya in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 9/6/2004
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/08/2005 : 03:26:05 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Tim
filthy...After I read your post, I leaned back in my chair and let my mind wander. A picture of Hinn ran throuh my mind. He'd exchanged his white suit for orange coveralls. He held bed clothes in his arms. He walked through the doorway into a small, dirty room in Huntsville Correctional and got his first glimps of Bubba, his room mate for the next few years. Benny's eyes opened wide and his jaw dropped. It was as if the true weight of his situation had finally dawned on him.
Bubba put one big, hairy mit on Benny's shoulder, looked down on the little man, and smiled lustily....
Uh, sorry...It was just a thought...
Wouldn't it be grand if "Bubba" was Karl's nickname? We would have a twofer... 
I think that it is going to be very difficult pin anything financial on this stool sample in a Nehru suit. Unlike Bakker, who was a little more than a fool, he has a virtual mafia of accountants to keep track of the profits, and keep him out of trouble. But maybe....
What I would love to see him exposed and busted for is his scam. Merely nail him Capone style and the believers will whine forever about how unfair the guv'ment is and: "Oh, pore Benny! Ain't it an awful thing, to crucify such a man o' Gawd!" No, I'd prefer him officially exposed in the noonday sun for all to see, and then locked up with Bubba/Karl.
Don't know if that can be done either, so I'll settle for whatever I can get.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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