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Title: $50 MILLION Embezzled by the Good Christians at Trinity Broadcast Network
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URL Source: http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/0 ... -at-trinity-broadcast-network/
Published: Feb 17, 2012
Author: Posted by Kevin Farrell
Post Date: 2012-02-17 14:02:13 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 65081
Comments: 133
The granddaughter of Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Paul and Jan Crouch has accused the world’s largest Christian broadcaster of unlawfully distributing charitable assets worth more than $50 million to the company’s directors. The charges are leveled in a federal lawsuit filed by Crouch granddaughter Brittany Koper last week against her former lawyers, who also do legal work for TBN. “Observers have often wondered how the Crouches can afford multiple mansions on both coasts, a $50 million jet and chauffeurs,” said Tymothy MacLeod, Koper’s attorney. “And finally, with the CFO coming forward, we have answers to those questions.” This would hardly be the first scandal to rock the nation’s largest Christian broadcast network. A gay engineer sued Trinity in 2009 after his sexuality was publicly mocked with pornography in the office and accused of having a “fairy man-gina” by Paul Crouch Jr., son of the network’s founder. Crouch left the network soon after the lawsuit. One final fun fact to chew on: Trinity pays no taxes on its $827.6 Million in revenue and assets, as it is considered to be a religious non-profit organization by the federal government. $50 MILLION embezzled by Christian television executives, accusations of man-gina possession, sexual harassment lawsuits, and pornography in the office? How terribly Christlike.
Paul and Jan Crouch under $50 Million of soft focus.
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#11. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Let me amend yours and the author's disingenuous, weaselly characterization regarding the above misleading, bullsh*t title... Here's the REAL DEAL: '$50 MILLION Embezzled FROM good Christians BY fake "Christian" thieves at Trinity Broadcast Network' See the difference? Thank you. You may now return to kneeling at Gaia's feet and kissing mother earth's azz.
I post articles and use the titles provided. I am not paid to re-write shit to make your pussy hurt less. As for the religious commentary, you believe what you want to believe, and I'll believe what I want to believe. Just like the First Amendment is written to accommodate. You have heard of it I presume?
And I am not some tool to humor your anti-Christian bullsh*t and sore various orifices, Prince Warlock. As for the religious commentary, you believe what you want to believe, and I'll believe what I want to believe. Just like the First Amendment is written to accommodate. You have heard of it I presume? (sob, sniffle) Now you're accusing me of censoring you?? LOL Hey - use the entire box of Kleenex if you must, Mikey
Warlock is not a term my faith uses. We also don't recognized there being a Satan; he's a Christian affectation. Not understanding my religion is merely just the biggest reason you are mildly entertain a spectacle, and not much more. And I don't know what you mean or where you get the censorship angle. I just know you are coming n with some strange notion that you can attack and push an aggressive line and think you would bother me any. You are just coming across as a variation of stupid; which is your prerogative. After all, Stone's forum has a lot of that going on from strange characters who are righties, so you just fit right in just fine here.
What is your faith?
You notice he never did answer. OR, helping us "understand" his "religion".
You notice he never did answer. OR, helping us "understand" his "religion". He is a satanist. Only to ignorant to realize it.
Why do you hate the US so much?
I would venture a guess that anyone who is against the U.S. becoming a theocracy with Christianity as the one true religion of record is a 'Satanist' to Mr. Stone here. And that to him, many thousands of Goddess based religion believers who were burned at the stake by the Catholic Church in England and other parts of Europe as heretics deserved their deaths.
And that to him, many thousands of Goddess based religion believers who were burned at the stake by the Catholic Church in England and other parts of Europe as heretics deserved their deaths. Oh yay, some more Wiccan revisionist history. Wicca is a modern religion created by Gerald Gardner in the 1940's. The overwhelming majority of victims "burned at the stake" or otherwise tortured and / or killed during the Middle Ages for witchcraft were not "goddess" worshippers or practioners of paganism. Most were innocent victims of mass-hysteria or victims of oppressive government officials who wished to do things like: A) Steal their property. If they are a "criminal" and executed by the State, then the government often confiscated their property. B) Silence political opposition or simply kill people that the government officials simply didn't like. C) Provide the classic strategy of the pagan Roman empire to keep the peasants from revolting: "bread and circuses". Witch-hunts provided the government for an alternate explanation as to why people's lives were so difficult -- it wasn't the governments' policies, it was witches!! You will note that in the above examples I cited government officials as the persecutors in the witch-hunts. That is because in the overwhelming majority of cases, it was not church authorities which tried people for "witchcraft", it was the government. Wicca is a modern religion which worships the demons ("gods" and "goddesses") of pagan antiquity. It is not a continuation of the same. Gerald Gardner created it, using rituals in many cases directly copied from the satanist Aleister Crowley (who called himself "The Great Beast"). He also added in some perverted S & M sex rituals so that he could get his jollies with people that he convinced to join with him in his brand new religion worshipping the dead gods and goddesses of paganism. So no, you are not a victim in a long- oppressed religion. You are a practioner of a modern fringe religion created by Gardner. The overwhelming majority of people killed in the witch-hunts were not pagans, most were either Christians or non-religious. The term witch-craft used in the Middle Ages refers to the classical definition of that term: using magic to cause harm to others. Thus, while Wiccans can practice witchcraft in the classical sense, not everyone who was or is accused of "casting spells" etc. is a Wiccan. And historically speaking, it was the advent of Christianity that brought the practice of "witch-hunting" into a decline. In ancient paganism, witch-hunting was commonplace. After all, since pagans believe in magic, then bad fortune was easy to blame on black magic. The early Christians knew that Jesus Christ is more powerful than the false gods and goddesses of the pagans, and thus we have nothing to fear from them. The Emperor Constantine outlawed witch-hunts at roughly the same time that he issued his edict of toleration toward Christianity and began openly supporting it by helping to build Christian Churches through-out the Empire. Constantine's own rise to power was an example of the superiority of Christianity over the false gods of paganism. He ordered his soldiers to display the Cross of Jesus Christ, and they were victorious over the followers of the pagan god Mithras. Thus, the spells and rituals of the pagan god of war were shown to be powerless against the Christian Prince of Peace. Paganism died out not because of persecution, but because people saw that it didn't work.
Perhaps I missed the gist of your post, but "Wiccans" do not practice "witchcraft" or "maejiick." They are "mother-earth" type folks that might be "neo-pagans" at best but in all cases, they understand the term "shame." similar to most everyone around the world, even if they are Christians.
I believe that you did miss the gist of my post, or I am misunderstanding your response. I was responding to the false claim that the victims of of the medieval witch-hunts were pagans being persecuted for their religious beliefs, and that Wiccans are the direct descendants of these "witches". That was an idea that was proposed many decades ago by a crack-pot academic and has now been widely discredited by historians. Despite the fact that it has been resoundingly discredited, it is common among Wiccans to repeat this propaganda, refering to it as "The Burning Times", and to act as though they are the continuation of some persecuted sect that has existed from antiquity. Since most Wiccans also tend to be leftists, they seem to feel better if they can portray themselves as the persecuted "victims" of allegedly oppressive Christians when in fact most of them are just spoiled brats rebelling against the religion of their parents. And if you are claiming that the modern Wiccan religion does not employ "magick", spells, and so forth -- a brief perusal of the internet can refute that claim.
We don't see eye to eye. Wiccans are about as close to animism as anyone can become however, with a modern twist dealing with "Mother Earth" and the politics thereof. Oh yeah, the UN plays a significant purpose here. They can take their politics and cram it where the Sun don't shine ... to use an old cliche.
buck you are wrong. I was in Wicca for a short time. It is all about magic and spells. WICCA is witchcraft and placings spells and curses on people.
What is the difference between Wicca "magic and spells" vs. Christian "beads/crosses&baptism and prayers"?
That is a very good question. It is about the will. In WICCA people learn that they can control their environment by casting spells and curses. NOW- granted there is black magic and white magic. They both work, giving people a sense of control over their lives- which sounds good on it's face- until we realize that we really are not in control- we are being used as pawns to control other people. It is very bad to take someone's free will. That is actually putting someone else in bondage- and the rule of the universe is that we will all reap what we sow. It doesn't matter if you believe that you reap what you sow- or not. It is true. So- back to beads and things. Again- I am not catholic. I do not pray to anyone who is dead- or speak to anyone who is dead- other than Jesus. Catholics pray to people they call saints- I don't really understand that. Ask a catholic. baptisim.. is not taking anyone's free will.. it is a personal choice a person makes on their own behalf.. so that is ok. Prayers is asking for something someone has asked us to pray for - or praying for ourselves. We are not taking the free will of anyone else. God also respects people's free will, so should we. Umm crosses- I am not sure what you are asking there? But I personally believe that a cross is an idol. I honestly believe we are to have NO idols (I am kind of a puritan on idols).. so I don't have a cross, myself. Hope that is helpful.
Wicca doesn't practice "magic." It is a neo-pagan or animistic approach to identifying mother earth. I don't know what you are talking about UNLESS within your background with some cult happened fool you about their styles. Wiccan practices and beliefs are largely in response to economic/political/resource issues and really isn't a pure belief system in my opinion. Most everyone identifies with the world around ourselves; Wicca folks accentuate that perspective is all.
I set up alters and use them and other tools to channel white magic. Magic can be done individually or in a group. As there are many ways to pray, there are many ways to invoke magic.
Do you use chicken blood and voodoo dolls with pins? If so, I want you to take a list of people that I plan for the next time you meet at your "alter,"
Heh, nope. We do white maic and care about promoting good, kindness and the best in people. Black magic and dealing with the dangerous tangle of hatred, revengeful thought and other nasty things like that I want no truck in whatsoever. I don't live to hate or want bad for others; that is not the Wicca way to establish a relationship with our creator and our relationship with her.
Of course not, other than to spread lies about Christianity allegedly slaughtering millions of your co-religionists when that is factually untrue. Do Wiccans not consider lying about others to be hateful?
Do Wiccans not consider lying about others to be hateful? We have quite a few professed Christians on this site who lie and spread tales about others constantly, and even stalk some posters around the internet. Is that considered good Christian behaviors? Christians definitely killed hundreds of thousands of American Indians most of whom followed religious practices similar to Wicca.
Christians definitely killed hundreds of thousands of American Indians most of whom followed religious practices similar to Wicca. Lying and stalking are not considered good Christian behaviour. Lying is specifically condemned in the Bible quite strongly. On the other hand, the "Burning Times" lie is extremely common amongst Wiccans and other neo- pagans. As leftists, they seem to find it extremely comforting to portray themselves as an oppressed minority even though the majority of them come from middle class white backgrounds. And as in this case so far, my experience with Wiccans who spread the "Burning Times" propaganda lies is that most often when they are confronted with the facts they do not correct or change their behaviour but cling to their false victim status like a security blanket. And to isolate a relatively small group of Christians as representative of the whole is silly. Furthermore, what Indian tribe practiced S & M sex rites while possessed by demons? Please give a citation.
I read your earlier posts. suffice it to say we do not agree on much. I am not going to discuss Wicca with you unless some of the vitriol is toned down on this board and ideas instead of personal attacks become the order of the day. Nice to meet you buy the way, and thanks for the ping.
It is nice to meet you as well. It is of course your own choice what you choose to discuss. But for an additional comment I will explain further why I view it as very hateful to characterise the victims of the witch-hunts of European antiqity as pagans. Almost all of the victims of these cruel tortures and executions repeatedly professed that they were Christian! Contrary to what one may think, refusing to admit to being a witch and professing that they were Christian only assured that they would face even worse torture. Those who "confessed" and then went through a fake "repentance" for their non- existent "crimes" were often released. Those who steadfastly insisted that they were Christian only assured that more torture and possible execution awaited them. So in what way is it at all moral to state that these poor people were liars and that they really were "witches". If you believe that people have immortal souls, how is it in anyway ethical to continue the slander of them that they endured at the last of their earthly lives? Here is an example from a summary of a witch trial. Do you believe that this poor woman was a liar and really was a closet pagan? All of her actions are consistent with her being a Roman Catholic -- her "confessions" only came after horrific torture, and as can be seen she immediately retracted them when given a chance -- only to endure more torture: "Ann Kaserin and her husband Georg Kaser kept an inn in Eichstatt, Germany, in the early 17th century. Eichstatt was hit by a Witch craze, one of the worst that Germany experienced. During it, several condemned Witches stated that they had seen Ann at a sabbat, making love to a demon. Ann was accused by twelve different Witches over nine years -- and yet the courts never arrested her. We're not sure why the courts were so lenient. Ann and Georg were wealthy; perhaps they had friends at the court or bribed some of the officials. Around 1629, Ann and Georg moved to Rennertshofen hoping to avoid the dangers of Eichstatt. However in March, 1629, Ann was arrested on charges of Witchcraft and taken to Neuburg for trial. Guards searched her house for signs or implements of Witchcraft, but discovered nothing. At Neuburg, Ann was first kept chained to a wall. Georg got permission to bring her a bed, and with it, a letter. "If you are guilty, O my Treasure," he wrote, "confess it. But if you are not guilty, you have a holy authority, by which you may demand God's grace and with which we may console our small children." He then told Ann how much he missed her, and how badly the house was falling apart now that he and the kids were on their own. On March 19, Ann appeared before the court for the first time. She swore she wasn't a Witch, though she admitted that she knew she'd been named by condemned Witches. That was the reason that she and Georg had fled Eichstatt. The court warned her that she would be tortured if she did not confess, but Ann maintained her innocence. Two days later, she was summoned a second time. Again, she affirmed her innocence, and the court handed her over to the executioner for torture. First came the thumbscrews. Ann endured this, insisting that the accusations against her came from hatred. People were jealous of her because she had money and fine dresses. When the thumbscrews failed to break the woman, the executioner brought out the strappado. The strappado was a simple but hideously effective torture. The Witch's arms were tied behind her back. A rope was fastened around her wrists and run through a loop on the ceiling. Then the executioner hauled the Witch up into the air, twisting her shoulder blades painfully, and frequently dislocated one or both shoulders. Many courts increased the torments by tying weights to the Witch's ankles, or by dropping them and jerking them back into the air. Ann was lifted in the strappado. And after hanging for fifteen minutes, arms wrenched behind her, she broke. The charges against her were true, she said. She had three pots of flying ointment and when she wished to go to a sabbat, she anointed a fork with these ointments and promptly flew away. She swore she never harmed a human being, but admitted that she had slept with demons and prayed to Satan. Guards again searched her house. This time they found a small pot with a hard, dry, black substance in it. But there was no sign of the "Witch-fork" that Ann claimed she flew with. Questioned and tortured a second time, Ann named several other Witches. At this point, the court summoned Georg and asked him about his wife's habits. Georg said that Ann was a good, hard-working woman and a devout Christian. She took Communion every other week and frequently spent half the day in church. But he did admit that for seven years his wife had been very melancholy. (How could she not be? Again and again in those years, she was accused of Witchcraft. Again and again she saw Witches burned, and knew that only the greatest of luck kept her from that very same fate.) Ann, Georg said, handled her fears like a good Christian: she prayed and fasted and wept until she could wash her hands in her tears. For seven years she avoided all weddings and festivities, hoping that God would see her fervor and spare her. The court thanked him for his testimony, and dismissed him. Meanwhile, they decided that Ann's confession wasn't sincere: she hadn't admitted to any murders, nor had she implicated "enough" of her fellow Witches. She was tortured again until she accused her maid and admitted that she had murdered one of her own children with a magick salve. Guards search her home again, looking for the deadly ointment, but all they found was an empty pot. Seeing nothing before her except slow torture and painful death, Ann attempted to commit suicide. She mixed her own urine and feces in a bowl and ate it, hoping it would poison her. All it did was make her violently ill. The court, however, believed that Ann must be trying to hide information. Suicide was of the Devil, they said. The only reason Satan would encourage a Witch to kill herself was to prevent her from giving a full confession. And so Ann was tortured a fourth time, most severely. She was hoisted in the strappado and her legs were crushed in iron boots. The broken woman confessed further. She had killed a peasant. She brought hail to destroy the crops. She knew many Witches. She had seen the Devil, and he had the feet of a goose. Finally, the court was satisfied and they sent two priests to hear Ann's final confession before execution. And here, Ann made a terrible error. She was a good Catholic, you see, and couldn't bring herself to lie to her confessor. So when the priest urged her to repent of her Witchcraft, Ann told him that she was innocent. She had only confessed to avoid torture, she told the priest, and she asked him to absolve her for the sin of lying to the court. Instead, the priest reported her words to the judges. Enraged, the court subjected Ann to a fifth bout of torture, more terrible than any of the others. Ann told them everything they wished to hear and affirmed that her earlier confession had indeed been true. But as they let her down from the strappado for the final time, the Witch made one last request, a plea that struck her judges as odd enough to note in their records. Please, she begged them, do not burn any of the people I named. Ann said she no longer cared if she lived or died; she only prayed God that she would be the last person burned in the land. On September 20, 1629, Ann Kaserin was beheaded and her lifeless body burned at the stake." So please explain to me how it is in any way ethical for neo-pagans to claim that this poor woman and thousands like her were lying when they professed to be Christian! This is horrific to continue to lie about the victims of the witch-hunts. Neo-pagans who spread this false propaganda should be ashamed of themselves.
Sorry, not interested in reading it. The topic was raise by Stone trying to fuck with me. So as far as I'm concerned there is nothing about the topic to discuss.
So as far as I'm concerned there is nothing about the topic to discuss. Orthodoxo. You have to remember Ferret is a hypocrite. It claims it is against abortion. Yet it voted for the Black Genocidal maniac in the White House. When ever the rat boy is getting beat up in debate. He likes to whine and talk about baiting. Or he will just run away and sware he is never coming here again. He has done that a dozen times or so.
Another thing which shows what a hypocrite you are is how you will delete another's post for a colorful personal attack on you, but of course you feel you are better than those you censor and do the same sort of game. You have also started several threads on Freedom 4UM.com trying to blast me and all you managed to do was get banned, and make me more popular there turning former adversaries into comrades. Why should I go? You have only managed to hurt your own standing around the Internet by trying to hurt me with attack threads elsewhere.
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#20. To: Liberator (#11)
'$50 MILLION Embezzled FROM good Christians BY fake "Christian" thieves at Trinity Broadcast Network'
#22. To: Ferret Mike (#20)
I am not paid to re-write shit to make your pussy hurt less.
#23. To: Liberator (#22)
#25. To: Ferret Mike (#23)
Warlock is not a term my faith uses. We also don't recognized there being a Satan; he's a Christian affectation. Not understanding my religion is merely just the biggest reason you are mildly entertain a spectacle, and not much more.
#26. To: We The People, Ferret Mike (#25)
What is your faith?
#30. To: Liberator (#26)
What is your faith?
#35. To: A K A Stone (#30)
He is a satanist. Only to ignorant to realize it.
#37. To: mininggold (#35)
#83. To: Ferret Mike, AKA Stone (#37)
I would venture a guess that anyone who is against the U.S. becoming a theocracy with Christianity as the one true religion of record is a 'Satanist' to Mr. Stone here.
#84. To: Orthodoxa (#83)
#85. To: buckeroo (#84)
Perhaps I missed the gist of your post, but "Wiccans" do not practice "witchcraft" or "maejiick." They are "mother-earth" type folks that might be "neo-pagans" at best but in all cases, they understand the term "shame." similar to most everyone around the world, even if they are Christians.
#91. To: Orthodoxa (#85)
And if you are claiming that the modern Wiccan religion does not employ "magick", spells, and so forth -- a brief perusal of the internet can refute that claim.
#95. To: buckeroo (#91)
#96. To: diva betsy ross (#95)
(Edited)
It is all about magic and spells.
#99. To: buckeroo (#96)
#104. To: diva betsy ross, Ferret Mike (#99)
#106. To: buckeroo (#104)
(Edited)
#107. To: Ferret Mike (#106)
#113. To: buckeroo (#107)
"Do you use chicken blood and voodoo dolls with pins? If so, I want you to take a list of people that I plan for the next time you meet at your "alter,""
#115. To: Ferret Mike (#113)
...I don't live to hate or want bad for others...
#116. To: Orthodoxa (#115)
Of course not, other than to spread lies about Christianity allegedly slaughtering millions of your co-religionists when that is factually untrue.
#117. To: mininggold, Ferret Mike (#116)
We have quite a few professed Christians on this site who lie and spread tales about others constantly, and even stalk some posters around the internet. Is that considered good Christian behaviors?
#119. To: Orthodoxa (#117)
#125. To: Ferret Mike (#119)
#129. To: Orthodoxa (#125)
#130. To: Ferret Mike, Orthodoxo (#129)
Sorry, not interested in reading it. The topic was raise by Stone trying to fuck with me.
#133. To: A K A Stone (#130)
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