It must have been the presence of Benny Hinn's "publicist" that caused the interviewer to pretend to ask Hinn probing questions like this one on ABC News last night:
"Are you taking advantage of people?"
Huh?! Let me rephrase that question for you—and would someone please distract the "publicist" with a platter of bear claws long enough for me to get it out?
"Mr. Hinn, after 30-plus years of ministry you have not offered proof of one verifiable miracle in your crusades. You receive a salary in excess of $500,000 per year from a secretive ministry run by family members and friends. You travel in a private jet and stay in hotel rooms worth upwards of $5,000 per night. You appear regularly on TBN and promise viewers that they will receive wealth, spiritual protection and salvation for their family members if they give you and TBN their money. Many of your donors are the poor and elderly, with limited financial resources. Trained hypnotists and illusionists who attend your crusades claim that they use the very same techniques to manipulate suggestible people in their audiences. ...
... Is there any possibility you are not taking advantage of people?"
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Well put. If he wasn't hurting anyone else, I'd say he'll get his in due time, but he really needs to be stopped before then. (Not a violent comment.)
Seriously. He's a bleeding ulcer on the stomach of Christianity, and it's not healing on it's own.
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