Comments on: TV Evangelists Are Investigated by the US Senate

By: Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:31:31 +0000

dear njnieman: In Genesis, the Lord Creator of All, said, ‘Let there be light,’ that is true. He was creating an endless Universe more huge than any one human being.

I don’t think the commenters here are ‘haters.’ I think they have complex thoughts, and a back story to each of their thoughts… as do you. I think they have found their own ways as you have found yours.

This article concerns an investigation, not a finding guilty, of people involved in a certain kind of profession that enjoys tax free status as 501.c.3 organizations that are required by law to adhere to certain strict standards. That is what is being looked into. The outcome of these matters remains to be seen.

dr.e

By: njnieman

njnieman — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:54:33 +0000

I believe that when u call yourself worried about the Man of GOD and how money is spent then u have nothing else to do with your life. In gensis the bible says let there be light and the church is the light and hope of this world we live in. As for me and my childern I love the LORD and I don’t listen to that HOG WASH!!!!!! Spend more time praying and doing what the Pastors and Bishops of the world do and get on board. Help some of these young people out here B/C they are the future what kind of people sit around waiting for someone to say something negative about the LORDS work and then make comments.Most of the comment made are just HATERS as soon as someone works in the favor of the LORD JESUS CHRIST to help the BLIND HUNGRYand suffering people want to make a bad thing out of it. TO ALL U HATERS GET A LIFE with CHRIST!!!!!!

By: linmacha

linmacha — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:07:27 +0000

I grew up in Tulsa, OK, home of Oral Roberts and Oral Roberts University. I was a Campfire Girl, and on one of our outings we took a tour of Oral Roberts Ministries. My jaw dropped at the marble floors and walls and the state-of-the-art AV equipment. (This was in the sixties.) When I went home and told my parents about what I had seen, my father gave me a lecture about people like Roberts “fleecing” little old ladies of their retirement and using it for the excesses I had seen. It was a far cry from the worn-linoleum Southern Baptist church that I was brought up in. The situation with Roberts and ORU have been open secrets in Tulsa for a long time — But it took extraordinary events to expose it to the much-needed light.

By: spirasol

spirasol — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:25:21 +0000

When I was a kid and we lived out in the boondocks of NY State, my Brasilian mother sought consolation and refuge watching Oral Roberts on tv. As kids we would enact the scenes we saw as Oral laid the hands on and people who had not walked in years stood up on wobbily legs and people who were blind since birth peered through tearing eyes to proclaim the work of God. Soon we were chastising our mother for believing in such poopy-cock. By the time we engaged with the real catholic church we were already cynics, and after confirmation I refused any involvement with the church except Monday afternoon catechism class and that only because we could get out of school early, often never making it to the church. Today I consider myself a strongly spiritual person, but no thanks to organized religion. If I were a senator when I was a kid they would have been investigated a long time ago.

–Spirasol

By: kritt

kritt — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:50:21 +0000

Grassley’s a good guy- this has been a long time coming.

Maybe some of these churches should instruct their members to take a vow of poverty as nuns and monks do.

By: domajot

domajot — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:16:24 +0000

Where money flows, excessive grresd follows.
Churches are no different.

No one should be trusted, just on say-so, in a room with a basket full of money.

however, I hope the stratight arrow outfits that do good work honestly don’t get tainted by this.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:36:20 +0000

Lol this is awesome. These bible thumping hucksters need a good financial horsewhipping. Con artists the whole lot of them.

By: Tyrone Steels II

Tyrone Steels II — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:30:40 +0000

I am so pleased that Senator Chuck Grassley (R) is pursuing this. I’ve been to Bishop Eddie Long’s church (more like sprawling corporate headquarters) and it is quite obvious that the term 501c3 is not known there.