Jeg pleier å beherske meg når det gjelder sånt stoff, men siste installasjon av Sarah Posners serie om fundamentalisme har følgende relevante lille sak: Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has opened an investigation into the finances of six of the leading prosperity televangelists, Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce […]
Jeg pleier å beherske meg når det gjelder sånt stoff, men siste installasjon av Sarah Posners serie om fundamentalisme har følgende relevante lille sak:
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has opened an investigation into the finances of six of the leading prosperity televangelists, Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, Eddie Long, Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn. Grassley is looking into whether these celebrity preachers abused their tax-exempt status by using proceeds to enrich themselves with luxury items like mansions, private jets, and fancy cars. Three of the targeted evangelists (Dollar, Copeland, and Hinn) sit on the Oral Roberts University Board of Regents, which is supposed to be investigating similar charges of financial mismanagement and other abuses there. (John Hagee, whose own use of church funds has been documented in the Prospect, also serves on the ORU Board of Regents.)
Televangelister berike seg selv på moralsk tvilsomt vis? Rystende. Hva blir det neste?
Les mer i The American Prospect. Og for dem som (i likhet med undertegnede) har en viss interesse for sånt, er det (i det minste) verdt å følge med på serien, som heter The FundamentaList. Mye om et svært relevant valg neste år.