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I was struck by an image of Joyce Meyer's family compound recently shown over at DC by Harry McCall. Here it is.
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I think it's useful to actually see images of the lifestyle of some of these Christians. This gives us some perspective when we hear their impassioned pleas for money. So I thought I'd browse around and see what I could come up with.
Apparently televangelists are big fans of the private jet. Copeland's is representative, though I could post others. This one cost only $20 million, so he bought a couple. One for himself, another for the wife. I'd seen somewhere that he'd recently bought a third, but I'm not certain on that.
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With that many private jets I guess you'd need your own private air strip. Here's an image of the Copeland residence from Google Maps.
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Benny Hinn is of course well known for his extravagent lifestyle. This is perhaps partly to do the fact that mainstream media has exposed him a little. He stays in 5000 sq ft hotel rooms while on travel at a cost of over $10K per night. Just staggering. I couldn't find a good image of his home, so this is a screen shot from the youtube clip linked to above. It's worth $10 million. It's a 7 bedroom, 8 bathroom estate on the Pacific coast with 7000 sq ft of living space.
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Then there's Creflo Dollar, who is not ashamed to flaunt his lavish lifestlye. Images of his estate are below.
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Oh, but that's just crazy Pentecostals. Informed apologists would never fall for such things, right? Guess again. I continue to get impassioned mailings from Hanegraaff imploring me to send cash. "We need $250K pronto to maintain ourselves in the black." Well, maybe if CRI wasn't buying Hank a $60,000 Lexus, or if they weren't paying him $250K or his wife an additional approximately $100K, or maybe if he scaled back a bit and didn't live in a private gated golfing community things might be in better shape.
But why scale back. The faithful keep writing checks. It's hard to turn that money down.
3 comments:
Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife,
In silken or leathern purse retains
A splendid shilling.
Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife,
In silken or in leathern purse retains
A splendid shilling.
Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife,
In silken or leathern purse retains
A splendid shilling.
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