How does pimping the pulpit affect the pimps' children?

If you wonder why people like me get so disgusted with pulpit pimps like Ken Copeland, Benny Hinn, Creflo "Worshippin' the Almighty Dollar" and the rest of them, I found a video over at Pulpit Pimps that will give you a good idea of why. Or, you can follow the link below to watch the video of a Cleveland, OH area pimp whose daughter's 16th birthday party was featured on MTV. Yes, MTV.

Watch and be disgusted.

Are you bribing God?

This is the kind of thing that makes me sick. And it should make everyone who is a child of God sick as well. Another video from ReformationNation (Pilgrim, you're on a roll, friend!) Randy and Paula White, the "pastors" of Without Shame Without Walls "Ministries" telling their crowd that you will be rich in material junk if you bribe God enough, and send the Whites all of your money.

The day Rodney Howard Browne almost sold out Madison Square Garden

He only came up about 18,000 seats short of that goal. The article is from 1999, but it gives you a good idea what kind of a "prophet" this jamoke is. (From Cross+Word). If you click the link and read the article, make sure you read all the way down. I shows you waht kind of a miscreant RHB really is, and what he considers to be his "true calling"--

“This man has a vision, and God is going to honor it!” So says Rick Shelton, pastor of Life Christian Center in St. Louis, of one Rodney Howard-Browne, self-proclaimed “Holy Spirit bartender” and the man who brought ‘holy laughter’ to America.

I wonder amid thunderous applause and cheering when it was, exactly, that God started honoring the visions of men. Who reversed the roles? And by what authority?

But this audience seemed quite convinced of the truth of this statement. And Howard-Browne himself certainly must have been, to rent out Madison Square Garden in the heart of Manhattan with a seating capacity of 20,000 for a full month’s time, ‘believing God’ for the three million dollars needed to pay for it.

A down-payment of $500,000 was apparently made, with the rest due to come in with the ‘masses of people’ who’d be brought into the Kingdom through his outreach and of course would immediately have the means and willingness to give generously to his offerings.

He’s not looking quite so confident now, however. On the first Friday night of this crusade, perhaps 2,000 people ‘flocked’ to hear the message. Ironically, the number of volunteers for this outreach is about 2100.

More bad news for Oral Roberts University

Two of its biggest names have resigned as regents. Benny Hinn, president of the School of Lying Signs and Satanic Wonders (motto: "How to rip people off for fun and profit") and I.V. Hilliard (motto: "I gave Juanita Bynum $30,000 to pay off her back taxes and all I got was this lousy t-shirt") have distanced themselves from the university named after one of the most successful shysters in the business of separating people from their money--the one who "mentored" renowned heretic Carlton "I don't want to believe there's a Hell and you can't make me!" Pearson (from Associated Press):

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two televangelists have resigned their posts as regents at Oral Roberts University, as the debt-ridden school tries to regroup following a spending scandal involving its former president. The university on Thursday also settled with one of three professors who filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the school.

Benny Hinn and I.V. Hilliard resigned as regents, where they were involved in making major school decisions, university spokesman Jeremy Burton said Thursday. Burton declined to say why the two resigned, but said both wrote the board to express their support for the school's mission.

The resignations come a month after the resignations from the board of regents of two other televangelists, Jesse Duplantis and Creflo [worshippin' the Almighty Dollar].

Hinn and Dollar are among six televangelists being investigated by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley to determine if the high-profile preachers violated their organizations' tax-exempt status by living lavishly on the backs of small donors. They have denied wrongdoing.

A phone message left after-hours Thursday at Hilliard's ministry, The New Light Christian Center, was not immediately returned. Ronn Torossian, a spokesman for Hinn, did not immediately respond to an e-mail message sent after-hours Thursday seeking comment.

The resignations follow that of Richard Roberts, who stepped down as university president in November amid allegations he misspent school funds to bankroll a lavish lifestyle. Roberts, the son of school founder Oral Roberts, held the position at the 5,700-student school since 1993.

Former regent Harry McNevin, who resigned 20 years ago over what he says was excessive spending by Oral and Richard Roberts, said Thursday's resignations couldn't have come soon enough.

"The whole board needs to go," McNevin said. "I see (the university) as a corporation belonging to the Robertses."

Now if only these two would quit their jobs as professional con men.

We have a "Christian" television station here, part of the "Christian" Television Network (CTN). They have the Hinnster on in the morning, and Richard "I can fleece people just like my dear old daddy" Roberts' "Hour of Healing" at night. Maybe now this station will grow a brain and stop having these charlatans on their network. Maybe now people will realize that these people are not true ministers of the gospel of grace. Perhaps now people will realize they've been lied to, cheated, swindled, embezzled...

Or not.

Mallrd Fillmore on Democratic hypocrisy

Benny Hinn catches "Day of Atonement" Fever

First, it was Paula White trying to jack your money out of your wallet by telling you we are supposed to keep the Day of Atonement, and that you should "Honor God with your 'Atonement Offering'". That's right, bribe God by giving Paula your money.

Benny Hinn, not to be outdone in the pulpit pimpery department, has tapped into that same sentiment, and is fleecing his people the same way (From Benny Hinn Ministries):

“But I’m not Jewish,” you may be saying. "What’s the point of observing an Old Testament feast like the Day of Atonement?"

From the Mount of Olives Pastor Steve Munsey teaches that there were three feasts in which God says, "These are My days":

• Passover
• Pentecost
• Atonement

They aren’t Jewish feast days. They aren’t the church’s days. They are God’s days.

These are days when He makes an appointment to meet with us. And we are to honor these feast days forever.

God has marked these three important days. Yes, God’s covenant has changed to a better covenant, but He did not demolish the Old Testament covenant:

• To the children of Israel, the feasts were observed.
• In Christ, the feasts were fulfilled.
• In the church, the feasts are applied.

We must learn to apply each, and we must apply them in order to have victory in every area of life.

[All emphases mine.]

Hey Benny, pick up a Bible once in a while. Look in the table of contents for a book called "Romans." Then go to chapter 14, verses 5-6, where it says, "One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God."

Or maybe you could find Galatians 3:2-3--"This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?" In other words, when Christ dies on the cross, and purchased our freedom from the law, we were released from having to keep the feasts.

Still not convinced? Then look up Colossians 2:16-17--"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."

But, towards the end, Benny shows you what this "Atonement Offering" stuff is all about:

On This Is Your Day! this Thursday and Friday, Steve Munsey urges people to give at least a $207 gift.

During this season, he teaches, the gift should be significant. Some are being led to give gifts of $2,007 or more.

I encourage you to seek the Lord on what you should give. Above all else, be sure to be part of this special Atonement offering and step into the overflow.

[All emphases mine.]

Steve Munsey is another huckster that Benny Hinn and Paula White are in league with. You can see a video of what he is all about here. Now, you sure you want to keep sending your money to these people?

Planned Parenthood Express: Killing unborn children in less than an hour

Jill Stanek, writing for World News Daily, details how Planned Parenthood (motto: "More dead babies equals more money for us!") is stepping up their efforts to monoploize the baby-killing business:

Planned Parenthood launched the plan in 2002 by opening Planned Parenthood Expresses in target locations across the country. They now number 42. Expresses are easily established in strip or shopping malls without need to fulfill zoning or building requirements.

Expresses are abortion cullers. They sell illicit sex, sell unguaranteed methods to avoid consequences of illicit sex, sell mop-ups for their anticipated failures, and restart the process.

Expresses can handle STD mop-ups, but they can't handle the Big A. These are handed off to specialized PP clinics that comply with zoning and building requirements.

PP is already the largest abortion provider in the U.S., but that isn't enough. Step 2 of the five-year plan was to build more, for which expresses provided the increased market.

Problem is, once word got out, and the pro-life crowd in many cities strated protesting, PP had to start lying about who they were and what they were doing. Not that PP doesn't know how to lie, they've been doing it for years.

But pro-lifers interrupted Step 2 in 2003. They developed a new strategy. Led by concrete contractor Chris Danze, they initiated a boycott of construction workers, equipment and supplies throughout the building of a $6.2 million Planned Parenthood mill in Austin, Texas.

The boycott didn't stop construction, but it significantly stalled it, created a lot of bad press for PP and most eye-opening, revealed pro-lifers wield great influence in local communities.

[...]

Planned Parenthood's response was in hindsight predictable. PP determined to build its other new mills on the sly. It bought property in Denver, Colo., and Aurora, Ill., and who knows where else in secret. It got busted in Denver before ground broke, but not in Aurora.

Throughout and after purchasing land in Aurora, PP hid behind a shell corporation it created, Gemini Office Development (acronym purposeful?).

PP and Gemini lied on multiple Aurora permit documents when entering into the building phase in 2006. As recently as March 2007, Gemini wrote on a permit its tenant was "unknown at this time."

Planned Parenthood doesn't care about women's "reproductive health," or anything like it. All they care about is money. Get 'em in, suck the child out, send 'em home. If they bleed to death, or they die from sepsis or peritonitis a month later, well, that ain't Planned Parenthood's fault because, hey, it wasn't an abortion death. Next please!

(linked at Stop the ACLU)

Phony Fred site set up by DNC hack

UPDATE: I would advise against trying to click the questionable link below (imwithfred2008.com), as the leftwing crackpot responsible keeps changing the sites it redirects to. One was a site...that...umm...I won't go into details. But, if you know Henry Reynolds, an attorney in Santa Monica, California, give him a quarter so he can buy a life. Nah, never mind. He's probably already on George Soros' payroll.

UPDATE: GOP and College has posted the guy's office phone number. But please, don't go to GOP and College and find the phone number of Henry Reynolds, a Santa Monica attorney. Repeat, do not go to GOP and College to look for Henry Reynold's office number, because it is posetd over there. (/obligatory disclaminer off).
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If you go to the site imwithfred2008.com, you are not going to an official Fred! Thompson site. Or even an unofficial pro-Fred! site. This url will take you to the website of...the Ku Klux Klan. Now, if you are a fan of Sen. Robert "Sheets" Byrd, you may not have a problem. But Cap'n Ed over at Captain's Quarters has some verrrry interesting information on the left-wing nutjob that is responsible. His info:

Henry Reynolds
500 California Ave. #5
Santa Monica, California 90403

BTW, he's an attorney in Santa Monica. and a contributoe to MoveOn.org, DNC services, and John Kerry-Heinz.

So, avoid imwithfred2008.com, and instead go to imwithfred.com, the official website of the next President of the United States!