[Steelfish]

This is one more example from the time of Benny Hinn. Jimmy Swaggart, Rev. Schulle, Joel Osteen etc of the curse of the Reformation where very Tom, Dick, and Harry and Rev. Jeremiah Wright feel they can crack open the pages of the Bible and offer their "own" authentic interpretations. So true what the brilliant English essayist Hillaire Belloc wrote in his "Heresies" that unlike other heresies, "Protestantism spawned a cluster of heresies." And one would add a "cluster of scam artists"

[MeshugeMikey]

Dollar...went to ora roberts university...where he may have learned a few tricks

I remember oral....begging for a large sum of money...which if he did not get he was sure the Lord would take him home...OR SO HE SAID!

[gaijin]

All I need for Jesus is my own JET..!

[Star Traveler]

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[hondact200]

Catholicism has its own heresies to - indulgences, traveling relics that had a required fee (bones of a apostle), praying to Mary (come about in the late 1800s). There are scam artists there too. Protestantism did not span the scam artists it is the peddling of charltans far and wide. look at the politicians of today they spread a lot of manure

[BigCinBigD]

There’s a sucker born every Minute...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

These charlatans dote upon the fact that Christianity is a religion that requires a profession of belief in order for its adherents to achieve salvation. And there’s no more facile way for a Christian to prove his bona fides before the Almighty than by giving money to “charity.” I’m reminded of that scene in the movie “In God We Trust” where the monk played by Marty Feldman, needing a job, takes one at a Christian novelty shop where his assigned task is to nail the Christ figures onto crosses which Christians will pay money for in order to show their devotion.