Posted on 04/28/2017 6:39:35 AM PDT by Morgana
Criminal investigators from the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Postal Service raided the Grapevine, Texas offices of televangelist Benny Hinn on Wednesday afternoon.
Hinn is famous for his stadium-filling “Miracle Crusades.” At these revival-style events, held worldwide, Hinn claims to use special, supernatural power to heal people suffering from terminal diseases and various handicaps.
Several IRS and Postal Service agents participated in the Wednesday raid.
The investigators entered Hinn’s offices, then left with boxes — and boxes, and boxes — of documents. The investigators then placed the boxes on trucks at the scene.
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Wonder if he can hit a curveball? Oh wait, he is a curveball . . . or foul ball
So, what’s the schedule for the scientoligists?
He’s a goof ball.
I had no idea Hinn was a “neighbor” in my city (Ft Worth.) Kind of scary.
The DFW Metroplex seems to be a magnet for such religious hucksters: Hinn, Copeland, Lamb, etc. Their tacky “compensations” are evident along many highways.
I wonder.
Personally, I have no sympathy for the brain-dead adherents of this obvious false prophet, they have no one to blame but themselves. If they spent only a few minutes a day in the Word, they’d realize what Hinn really is.
Where do I send my check?
Those clips remind me of the phony Kiai master on youtube.
Certainly no fan of Benny Hinn but if people want to donate funds that between them and his ministry. This IRS intrusion could also be allowed by God to discipline or purge the greed from a so-called evangelist in His name. Years ago Benny Hinn’s brother spoke at a church service I attended. I found him to be a bit arrogant too so not a fan of anything Hinn.
Don’t agree with Hinn or his scam “ministry” on much of anything, but this is more an issue of the IRS overreach. If they can bully Hinn, they will bully anyone who goes against government-mandated orthodoxy.
Does your church unabashedly condemn homosexuality? Get ready.
I think Hinn is a scam, but only religiously. That said, this is the government who has decided that a TV minister who lives in luxury cannot be allowed.
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I think the problem is if he’s taking a tax deduction intended for the genuinely religious.
Meanwhile that corrupted tasbard IRS commissioner Koskinen gets to keep his job thanks to the de-balled geldings in Congress who wont impeach him like they should. So flux the Fed Govt cretins— Benny Hinn should be avoided by any normal believers as his censorship.
Hinn is a favorite target of The Babylonian Bee a Christian satire site. They really roast him (deservedly so).
My favorite, because if a minister really had healing powers he’d spend every day at childrens hospitals.
Benny Hinn Spends Another Long Day At Children’s Hospital Healing Kids
ORANGE, CA—Most pastors are content to be simple, faithful preachers of God’s Word, and so was Benny Hinn—until he realized, years ago, that God had given him supernatural powers to instantaneously heal the sick and dying. Since the day of that revelation he’s been putting his powers to use by spending his days healing those who need it most—usually with minimal sleep and food himself.
“There is too much work to be done,” he says.
On this particular Tuesday he was spotted healing terminally ill kids, as he is known to do, at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
It was a typical day’s work at the hospital for Hinn, which includes healing hundreds of patients with a mere touch or a softly spoken word, song, or prayer. He refuses all gifts, donations, and “love offerings,” of course, and gently turns down all photo op attempts and autograph requests. Passing by him, you wouldn’t even know he was any different from the rest of the hospital staff, as he typically dons scrubs, booties, and a surgical cap in order to blend in and avoid attracting any unwanted attention.
Hinn goes about his work quietly and methodically, and by the end of the day, every single child in the hospital has been cured of their various maladies, parents, doctors, and nurses have been reduced to tears, and Benny Hinn is slipping off quietly to his small home in Dana Point to plan the next day’s work.
“It’s absolutely unbelievable, what Benny has done for our patients—well, our former patients,” teary-eyed surgeon Dr. Todd Gallimore laughed to reporters after the day full of miracles. “Benny Hinn is true man of God. A true man of God.”
The normally press-shy Hinn offered a quick statement to reporters after being told of Dr. Gallimore’s kind words. “I’m just doing what anyone else, in my shoes, with my powers, would do. It would be quite wretched of me to do otherwise, would it not?”
“Please tell Todd I said thanks,” he smiled.
And then he was gone.
Careful....
Today, it’s Benny Hinn. Tomorrow, it’s YOU and me....
Really? They have to RAID the place like storm troopers?
Why not just the standard audit???
Police chase with Yakity Sax => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUYbu5DJA1U
But those aren’t soft targets!
I prefer Benny Hill.
Best police chase, bar none, is Babyface Nelson and the boys in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" ("Hey, mister? Yer foldin' money done come unstowed...")
We all make the same mistake. Maybe they are really the same guy. Maybe Benny Hill faked his death, just like Elvis.
Could be, you never know.
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