Posted on 06/01/2019 4:28:45 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Wild eyed televangelist Kenneth Copeland appears unhinged in interview where he defends his $760million fortune and says he needs to use THREE private jets because 'demonic environment on commercial flights are not good for a preacher'
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland has appeared in a bizarre interview where he defends using three private jets to travel the world after previously claiming he didn't want to fly commercial with 'demons'.
The 82-year-old's chat with Inside Edition features him angrily pointing and staring the interviewer in one of the instances where he flares up after being confronted about his lavish lifestyle.
But at other moments Copeland has a cheerful demeanor and deflects questions by complimenting her on her eyes, praying for her, and even kissing her hand.
Lisa Guerrero caught up with Copeland – estimated to be worth $760million in October 2018 – after he last year purchased a $3million Gulfstream V private jet from producer and actor Tyler Perry.
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I hope he is not one of the — ahem — “ministers” who counsels young Christian Trump.
I’ve always thought this guy was a nut. He seemed a bit demented years ago.
There's no liar lying like an angry man.
I question his keeping wealth instead of investing it in the kingdom in the same way
I question the Vatican keeping wealth instead of investing it in the kingdom.
Him, Mike “sow your seed for Jesus” Murdoch, Jimmy “I have sinned” Swaggart and all the rest of the hucksters.
don’t forget osteen.... although I don’t think he even mentions Jesus. I would not want to be in their place at the Judgement
Copeland has LOOOONG been known to be one of those that claims that if you give him all your riches then God will make YOU rich.
He’s a scammer, preying on the weak and needy. His preaching always tries to trick people into pledging money to him. but in the name of God, who’s then going to repay you riches beyond belief. I remember him since the early 80s.
I guess his scam works, (for him).
Neither would I!
Not a good thing to show up at the Judgment Bar of Christ with the weight of all thos souls around your neck that you misled!
Sociopath.
He's another 'word of faith' huckster. Trying to defend his 'wealth' by using the Bible is disgusting. Jesus had nothing; no material possessions. He's not the only one either but it seems to be rampant in the charismatic sector i.e. Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Jim Bakker (who could forget that guy) et al.
The grift is not limited to Charismatics but they are the most blatant about it imo.
The Vatican runs a deficit every year, its ‘wealth’ is in churches, schools and hospitals.
Copeland preaches “another gospel”...he needs to repent while he’s still above ground.
Copeland is in competition with Osteen to see who can fleece their flocks for the most money.
Dude I’m not even sure Copeland even preaches the gospel. He’s a snake oil salesman plain and simple
Charlatan.
Who knew that demons only flew “coach”?
Bet lotsa people flying commercial wish they had a “strong, Bible believing” preacher next to them to help fend off attacks from demons, the demon possessed...
....drunks, loud mouth jerks, crouds, surly airline employees crying babies and other nuisances...
I mean “demons” Definitely ‘demons’
Right, Rev. Copeland?
Many are confused when it comes to the Church and the issue of money. It is not true that the Vatican is awash in cash and thus hypocritical for criticizing materialism, uncontrolled capitalism, and excessive wealth.
While our Church certainly has invaluable art, plus vast land holdings (witness St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York), they are not disposable wealth; they are not for expenditure; the current Pope lives in what amounts to a dorm room (the majority of those reading this have a bedroom far more appointed) and John Paul II’s sleeping quarters, despite location in the papal apartments, were equally spare: a dresser and single bed and table (he often slept on the floor, the was less ornate than many who are officially categorized in the U.S. as impoverished).
It is a myth that the Vatican is super-wealthy. The Vatican often runs at an annual budgetary loss ($19 million in the red in 2011), and has an operating budget that’s one tenth that of Harvard University — a single university — and less than a fourth a Catholic university like Notre Dame (which operates independent of Rome).
While the Vatican City State — which includes the famous museums — operated at a $21 million surplus one recent year, the art there — priceless though it is — “can never be sold but is kept for the benefit of humankind and requires millions of dollars to maintain and restore,” notes one Vatican reporter. It is not a liquid asset.
“Though the Vatican Museum collects entry fees, that money is used to defray the mammoth maintenance and restoration costs.”
Our Church runs more charities and hospitals than any other entity on the planet and often contributes to nations that have suffered disasters.
Have there been abuses? Of course. Humans work at places such as its bank. There have been abuses in dioceses (take the bishop from Germany who was recently chastised for building an opulent mansion). Many cardinals, bishops, and priests could tone down their lifestyles. Those who are living a bit too luxuriously should hear from us (the current Pope even encourages the laity to write them notes).
But financial abuses are not common.
And hypocritical the Church is not.
What does it say about money?
John Paul II once said that without God, capitalism and socialism are equally evil (Benedict also made the same point, though both railed against the Marxist form of socialism, which is exactly that — Godless).
“Catholic social doctrine is not a surrogate for capitalism,” the great John Paul stated in Centesimus Annus (42). “In fact, although decisively condemning ‘socialism’ the Church, since Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, has always distanced itself from capitalistic ideology, holding it responsible for grave social injustices. In Quadragesimo Anno Pius XI, for his part, used clear and strong words to stigmatize the international imperialism of money. This line is also confirmed in the more recent magisterium, and I myself, after the historical failure of communism, did not hesitate to raise serious doubts on the validity of capitalism, if by this expression one means not simply the ‘market economy’ but ‘a system in which freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of human freedom in its totality.’”
“The free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs,” John Paul II said. “But there are many human needs which find no place on the market,” he immediately added, and many people without the purchasing power to meet their needs through the market.
We are meant to take what we have, sustain our families, and seek the good of society with what is left, is the philosophy of Catholicism.
Benedict XVI agreed.
Said that conservative Pontiff: “Telling the Parable of the dishonest but very crafty administrator, Christ teaches his disciples the best way to use money and material riches, that is, to share them with the poor, thus acquiring their friendship, with a view to the Kingdom of Heaven. ‘Make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon,’ Jesus says, ‘so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations’ (Luke 16: 9).” Many would be astonished to know that the Church has long taught — since the Middle Ages, if not before — that a store or company should sell an item with a price based: on the material and the actual cost of labor and no more.
The Church has long condemned “usury” — defined as charging any interest on a loan.
When Mary has appeared, it has usually been to peasants (see Lourdes; see LaSalette; see Juan Diego; see Fatima). At the approved site of Kibeho her main message warned of materialism.
“Catholic social doctrine has always supported that equitable distribution of goods is a priority. Naturally, profit is legitimate and, in just measure, necessary for economic development. Starvation and ecological emergencies stand to denounce, with increasing evidence, that the logic of profit, if it prevails, increases the disproportion between rich and poor and leads to a ruinous exploitation of the planet. Spiritual powers are themselves a factor in the economy: the market rules function only when a moral consensus exists and sustains them.” (See his “Market Economy and Ethics.”)
https://www.spiritdaily.org/Vaticancash.htm
That guy is a psychopath. I’ve said that for many years. Even as a kid, switching the TV around, early Sunday morning, I thought, ‘That man is scary!’
You left out valuable art, bank accounts, etc.
"Looking at Vatican wealth on paper is also quite misleading. Time Magazine ran this assessment of Vatican wealth in 1965, offering an estimate of total wealth, which at that time reached into the tens of billions of dollars.“Bankers’ best guesses about the Vatican’s wealth put it at $10 billion to $15 billion. Of this wealth, Italian stockholdings alone run to $1.6 billion, 15% of the value of listed shares on the Italian market. The Vatican has big investments in banking, insurance, chemicals, steel, construction, real estate. Dividends help pay for Vatican expenses and charities such as assisting 1,500,000 children and providing some measure of food and clothing to 7,000,000 needy Italians. Unlike ordinary stockholders, the Vatican pays no taxes on this income, which led the leftist Rome weekly L’Espresso last week to call it “the biggest tax evader in Italy.” [Source]
"In other words, estimates are all over the place, and contemporary reporting on this subject is rather slim. Another dimension to this is the sheer value of all of the priceless works of art housed in Vatican City. Estimating the value of all of this in terms of dollars is impossible, but looking at just one well-known prize, the Sistine Chapel, offers a look at how difficult it is to appraise all of this. Estimates range from $400 billion all the way up to $2 trillion for just this one masterpiece.
https://www.wakingtimes.com/2017/08/03/much-wealth-vatican/
That was 1965
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