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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: 64997
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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#1. To: All (#0)
There is no more a successful whore than one with good church credentials.
Ain't that gal a cutie? Her hairdo seems a little French Bourgeoisie in 1800 to me.
Many of these women are more like sideshow exhibits than religious role models. Big hair does not usually mean there is a big brain inside the thick skul under it.
As God is my witness, if I ever caught someone looking like that in bed, I would kick them out. Where on Earth do you find this material?
Sometimes I just surf on the Internet until something appears that makes my computer weep for mercy, Buck. What can I say? There is just some scary stuff out there on the big bad old web. I agree with you on the look. Her hairdresser should be jailed for creating such spectacles of bad taste.
I wonder how much her hairdresser made in this coverup? The applied fake eyelashes, the lipstick, the overdone makeup... also I want to know why anyone would give a dime to some fake, made-up woman and organization that pushed that kind of shenanigan.
She does look more like a bad edition of a barbie doll. One only Freddy Kruger could love. Yes, it is amazing how people could be so dumb they would bank roll this bimbo's bizarro con game. If Tammy Fay Bakker were still alive she would be green with envy that someone could out uglify her.
I wager LF's local billy gal gives, generously; of course murron ... mom-grandmother ... rebelgal ... believes!
And you believe it WHAT again? Despair and hopelessness at the bottomless bottle of Jim Beam? Here's the difference between you and Murron; SHE knows exactly where her spirit and soul goes once her mortal body leaves this dusty globe. YOU OTOH are a lost, frustrated little boy with destination: UNKNOWN.
Nope. According to all her posts, she just believes in cockamamie malarkey out in ther' boon-docks at the crest of the hills with some snake worshiper. Kinda like you hoping for incredible immortality through some "belief" that God will transcend your soul after you are six feet under. Cling on to all your fate, lib.
"Cling"? Brother, I KNOW with ZERO doubt where I'm going after this short stint in the flesh. Sorry to disappoint you and your bloated intellect - IT is your worst enemy. That and that little voice that keeps on telling you "God is a Myth". The taxi meter is ticking; humble yourself and massive mortal (but finite) ego and open your heart. You may surprise yourself and find the key. My sincere advice: Find a good Baptist pastor to address those questions (made in earnest) you've found "impossible" for anyone to answer in the past. Go ahead and challenge him.... Give yourself an opportunity at the peace of mind you've sought and deserved but haven't found anywhere in over 40 years.
How? Draw the clear difference between common sense and mere faith about some belief that YOU may celebrate aperiodically to refresh your recollection of being a mere mortal? You realize, that Judaism started this crap about miracles, don't you? Indeed, Abraham and Sarah at about 100 years old created the myth of a birth AND later Jesus' disciples continued the same path of mystic hoopla and shaman-like tea leaf readings. What are you afraid of? Death? Man, when you die (especially in America) you are going to be slapped on a stainless steel gurney for some twit to provide a method of official certification of death. Kinda like the way you got here, but then, you were slapped on the ass and birth certificate pinned to your crib.
#21. To: buckeroo (#18)
We all fear pain. "Death"? No. You realize, that Judaism started this crap about miracles, don't you? Indeed, Abraham and Sarah at about 100 years old created the myth of a birth AND later Jesus' disciples continued the same path of mystic hoopla and shaman-like tea leaf readings. Why does it matter who and how the Word of God began? But look - this is all a matter of faith in any case. Let me know when you've discredited ANY prophecies of the Bible OR can arrive at the provable conclusion that the Universe (aka that "Myth") just randomly created perfectly designed, functionally living things and natural laws. It is RATIONAL to believe that this Creator also created a manual and instructions and guidelines for - and the meaning of life ( that would be the Bible). To believe this Creator just "Hit & Run" and created with no rhyme or reason is totally irrational. Isn't it?? Buck, do you believe in a state of consciousness beyond your waking state? As in your dream-state? Our spirits are independent from our brain. Believe it.
Good piece below addresses our humanity: A Royal Ruin: Pascal's Argument from Humanity to Christianity by Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D. Is it possible to reconcile mankind's dueling capacities for debauchery and greatness? As Dr. Doug Groothuis explains, Pascal saw the Christian worldview as the only plausible explanation for this inner conflict that plagues the human race. Introspection: Mankind's Specialty The Bible is God's anthropology rather than man's theology. — Abraham Joshua Heschel [1] We humans often puzzle over our own humanity, scanning our heights and our depths, wondering about and worrying over the meaning of our good and our evil. No other animal reflects on its species like this. Here, and in so many other ways, we stand unique among living creatures. Why does a young student go on a homicidal rampage at Virginia Tech, murdering dozens of innocent people and then killing himself? Why does such evil strike so hard and so erratically? In spite of these upsurges of human evil, we are also struck by the beauty, courage and genius wrought by human minds, hearts and hands. After every tragedy (on September 11, 2001 or at Virginia Tech), heroes emerge who rescue the living, comfort the dying, and put others above themselves in spontaneous acts of altruism. Singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn ponders the complexities and contradictions of humanity in "The Burden of the Angel/Beast" — the distinctively human discomfort with being human and not understanding the origin and meaning of our own humanness: What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, the glory and refuse of the universe! [2] Yet this was no mere marveling. Any worldview worth its rational salt needs to offer a sufficient explanation for both human greatness and debauchery. Pascal goes on: "Man's greatness and wretchedness are so evident that the true religion must necessarily teach us that there is in man some great principle of greatness and some great principle of wretchedness." [3] Pascal believed the answers were found in the Bible. We find greatness in humanity because we are made in the divine image (Genesis 1:27). However, that image has been defaced (but not erased) through the fall (Genesis 3; Romans 3). There is something wrong with every aspect of our being, but we remain noble in our origin. There are, to invoke Cockburn again, "rumors of glory" found in humanity. From the greatness and wretchedness of humanity, Pascal developed an argument for the truth and rationality of Christianity. While his ingenious argument has been reconstructed in more detail elsewhere, [4] we will consider its basic structure, which provides a fruitful point of discussion with seeking and questioning people today. Two Extremes The genius of the Christian perspective is that it explains both greatness and misery without exalting one above the other. Our nobility, expressed in the achievements of thought, for example, is due to our divine image. Because of this, we transcend the rest of creation. Yet we abuse our greatest endowments, wasting our God-given skills on trivia and diversions, because we know we will die and do not know what to do about it. We are the corruption of a former original. Pascal says: The point is that if man had never been corrupted, he would, in his innocence, confidently enjoy both truth and felicity, and, if man had never been anything but corrupt, he would have no idea either of truth or bliss. But unhappy as we are (and we should be less so if there were no element of greatness in our condition) we have an idea of happiness but we cannot attain it. We perceive an image of the truth and possess nothing but falsehood. [5] In other words, we are royal ruins: We possess some truth, but we cannot rest content in what we naturally know; we feel our own corruption, and in so doing, we realize the human condition is somehow abnormal, flawed and degenerate. In the context of surveying human greatness and misery in many dimensions of life, Pascal says: "It is the wretchedness of a great lord, the wretchedness of a dispossessed king." [6] In surveying human philosophies and non-Christian religions, Pascal notes that they either exalt humans at the expense of taking seriously their weaknesses or reduce humans to nothing at the expense of their significance. In Pascal's day, many were impressed by the philosophy of the Stoics, who asserted that humans were great in reason and courage and partook of the divine essence of the universe. Yet these Stoics made little allowance for human weakness, cruelty, uncertainty and fragility. Thus, they exalted greatness at the expense of misery. On the other hand, various skeptics, such as Michel Montaigne (1533-1592), delighted in showing the weakness of human reason and the arrogance of our pretensions. Yet the skeptics downplayed our ability to reason properly and the significance of human achievements in science, art and elsewhere. As Pascal said, they should have been more skeptical of their skepticism. [7] The New Spirituality, India's Caste System While the specific writers that Pascal addressed are not commonly discussed today, the tendency either to overrate or underrate humanity is still with us. Many examples abound, but I will briefly inspect one worldview that overrates humanity: the New Spirituality. [8] The New Spirituality is an amalgamation of ideas drawn from many sources. But whether it is the best-selling book, The Secret (hawked by Oprah Winfrey), or the movie, What the Bleep Do We (K)now!?, the New Spirituality claims we are divine beings who can tap into unlimited potential through a change in consciousness. (In this way, it is similar to Stoicism.) We are limited not by our sinful condition, but only by negative thought patterns. The "secret" of The Secret is "the law of attraction" — we attract good things to ourselves through positive thoughts and negative things to ourselves through negative thoughts. This blind optimism and inflation of human abilities appeals to our pride and the American "can-do" attitude, but it is radically out of alignment with reality. Yes, humans achieve much of what they conceive, but there are limits. Thought does not create reality ex nihilo. Moreover, humans inflict evil on others willfully and repeatedly. We cannot explain this away on the basis of the negative thoughts of those who are victimized. Consider the untouchables (or Dalits) of India. Their 3,000 years of subjugation by the upper Hindu castes cannot be explained on the basis of low self-esteem among the Dalits. That would be to blame the victim unjustly. Rather, human beings, given their fallen propensity to exalt themselves over others artificially, have unjustly oppressed fellow imagebearers of God for three millennia. "Man's inhumanity to man" is a fact of human history, in India and everywhere else under the sun. Even a "royal ruin" should be able to see that and search for an answer. Finding a Balance: The Christian Perspective But the Christian worldview conserves both our greatness and our wretchedness in a profound revelation, something not available to unaided human reason, as Pascal points out: Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you. Listen to God. [9] The biblical account of our creation and fall best fits the facts of human reality. However, we must "listen to God" — that is, attend to what God has spoken in the Bible — to discover this liberating truth. Pascal further counsels us that the biblical account reveals that there is a Redeemer for royal ruins — Himself, a King, who became a man in order to rescue those who are "east of Eden" and standing at the brink of eternity. Pascal says that in Him we find hope for our deposed condition: "Jesus is a God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair." [10] Though we are royal ruins, we can find total forgiveness, redemption and eternal life through the one who truly understands our condition. (See John 3:16-18; 10:10; and Romans 5:1-8.) [11] http://www.denverseminary.edu/a-royal-ruin-pascals-argument-from-humanity-to- christianity/
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#2. To: Ferret Mike (#1)
#3. To: buckeroo (#2)
#4. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
#5. To: buckeroo (#4)
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#5)
Her hairdresser should be jailed for creating such spectacles of bad taste.
#7. To: buckeroo (#6)
#8. To: Ferret Mike, murron (#7)
#15. To: buckeroo, Murron (#8)
I wager LF's local billy gal gives, generously; of course murron ... mom-grandmother ... rebelgal ... believes!
#16. To: Liberator (#15)
#17. To: buckeroo (#16)
Kinda like you hoping for incredible immortality through some "belief" that God will transcend your soul after you are six feet under. Cling on to all your fate, lib.
#18. To: Liberator (#17)
(Edited)
I KNOW with ZERO doubt where I'm going after this short stint in the flesh.
Replies to Comment # 18. What are you afraid of? Death?
#89. To: buckeroo, liberator, GarySpFc (#18)
Man, when you die (especially in America) you are going to be slapped on a stainless steel gurney for some twit to provide a method of official certification of death. Kinda like the way you got here, but then, you were slapped on the ass and birth certificate pinned to your crib.
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