[Magdalen] Any takes on this.....
Georgia DuBose
gdubose at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 16:00:42 UTC 2015
My one "anti-prosperity-gospel" sermon was preached after reading a
very carefully researched and interviewed article on him in the New
Yorker, probably about 2008.
I think he's evil. I very rarely say that about anyone; it seems to me
that his manipulation of the people in his congregation is truly
wicked.
Georgia+
On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Zephonites--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> Folks
>
> I wonder what you think of this?
>
> Perhaps he is aptly named - or should it be "Great flow" (of) Dollar (s)!
>
> This gives us a bad name as Christians - and I say this as a Conservative
> Evangelical - Charismatic Christian too.
>
> Blessings
> Martin
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> NEW YORK -- God wants Creflo Dollar to have a luxurious private jet, and
> anyone that thinks otherwise is working for the Devil. That's the view of a
> controversial American huckster/televangelist, who broke his silence this
> week after being _pilloried for demanding his credulous flock pay for a
> Gulfstream G650_
> (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/15/american-pastor-creflo-dollar-mocked-for-launching-online-appeal-to-buy-him-a-private-jet_n_6873
> 590.html) .
> Last month Dollar _launched an online appeal_
> (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/15/american-pastor-creflo-dollar-mocked-for-launching-online-appe
> al-to-buy-him-a-private-jet_n_6873590.html) requesting each congregant “
> sow $300 or more” to help fund the purchase of the $65 million private jet,
> which boasts two Rolls Royce engines, multichannel satellites and
> high-speed Internet.
> After the pastor’s demand for such earthly ostentation _was reported on_
> (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/14/jesus-wants-me-to-have-this-j
> et.html) (and widely mocked), the video demanding the cash was withdrawn
> and the flamboyant religious businessman went quiet… until this week, when
> the Godly entrepreneur responded to his critics by suggesting Satan is
> trying to discredit him.
> _http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/24/christian-pastor-creflo-dollar-d
> efends-appeal-to-huckster-65-million-from-his-congregation-for-a-private-jet
> _n_7137144.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D346406_
> (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/20
> 15/04/24/christian-pastor-creflo-dollar-defends-appeal-to-huckster-65-million-from-his-congregation-for-a-private-jet_n_
> 7137144.html?icid=maing-grid7|uk|dl1|sec1_lnk3&pLid=346406)
>
>
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