Televangelist Brings Ministry To Houston But Not Without Controversy. (Benny Hinn...

ABC13 Eyewitness News ^ | 2/24/2005 | ABC13 Eyewitness News

[Vicki]

He's on the same level as Robert Tilton. Tilton was caught taking all the money out of the envelopes sent in and the prayer requests that people made were tossed out in a dumpster in the back of his building.

I don't know how people can believe in these guys.

[bigfootbob]

M-O-N-E-Y

You'd not believe all the little old ladies who believe his charlatanism and send in their envelopes stuffed with a portion of their subsistence money hoping to insure they go to heaven.

My mom and aunt gave dough to Benny Hinn's predecessor, Oral Roberts. It drove me nuts. My mom even gave dough to Jimmy Swaggart.

[B Knotts]

[Minus_The_Bear]

This video is all you need to know about Hinn and his dealings...

WARNING: It's in REAL format so you'll need REAL Alternative or REAL Player.

[SaveTheChief]

Great... Now I'll have that song in my head all day.

[Lekker 1]

Major Scuttle at your service!

[texaschick]

Hank Hannegraf wrote an excellant book about modern day faith healers like Hinn and his bunch. It's called Christianity in Crisis. I highly recommend it.

[Swanks]

He has now moved his family (daughter, son-in-law) onto the gravy train. They 'lay over' between engagements in the Carribean, etc. in $3,000 to $4,000 per nighte hotel rooms, go shopping, and send the bills to the ministry, er, supporters.

Anyone funding these people are fools that deserve to have their money seperated from their wallets.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

They already aired it.

Go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7090144/

Not much, though.

[Asclepius]

Hinn also admits to frequenting the graves of both Kathryn Kulman and Aimee Semple McPherson to get the "anointing" from their bones. 31

I heard some Christians drink the body and eat the blood of Christ. Or something like that. And what about that die and be born again stuff. Or the rupture (rapture?--only what's rapt about it?), when all the believers get sucked out through a rent in the sky and leave SATAN INC. controlling the federal reserve. Or priests practicing celibacy, or not practicing it enough.

It's enough to give you the willies.

[ARA]

were you at Benny Hinn Church?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Part and parcel of the American experience.

They will always be with us. That genre died down for awhile after the Trinity Ministries here in Dallas exposed Robert Tilton after much hard work. He is still trying to sneak back in the back door. Exposing them is the only antidote but that takes media cooperation. Fortunately they are usually eager to jump on anything Christian in order to discredit us all. We need to keep the heat on this Hinn character by asking the media to expose him.

[scripter]

Bookmarked to read later.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

I agree. Christianity in Crisis was an excellent read. Most enlightening.

[Liberal Classic]

Oh, I just noticed the date on the channel 13 website.

[Portnoy]

I've always enjoyed reading Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis.

[timtoews5292004]

uh, no. his church is in orlando, I think. I am in KY. I used him, the great people at TBN, and a couple other religious broadcasters as fodder for a paper I wrote about religion and television during graduate school. The things some of those people say boggles the mind.

[4everontheRight]

He was here locally a few years back and a local radio show was talking about the appearance and people were calling in to tell stories about the crusade. Apparently one man had a ill mother in a wheel chair who he wanted to get on stage to be "healed" by Hinn and was told pretty much to go F himself. Others called in who had worked with a private company to collect money during the show and a few said that the "healed" people were all kept in a room in the back and brought out and mingled into the audience.

[A_TN_VOL]

There is only one true TV healer. Errr...nest Annn...sely!!!! Ha-la-lu-ya!!!!!!