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And then there is this cut and paste that I laziliy grabbed from elsewhere:
Acting on public complaints, Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of the Senate Finance Committee has launched an investigation into alleged financial wrongdoing involving six high-profile televangelists, all of whom run "non-profit" organizations...
Creflo Dollar, pastor of World Changers Church International, is among those under investigation. He has several Rolls Royces, private jets, a million-dollar home in Atlanta and a $2.5 million Manhattan apartment.
Best-selling author and televangelist Joyce Meyer also is under investigation. Her office headquarters, with its 158,000-square-foot, three-story building and furniture estimated at $5.7 million, was built for $20 million in 2001. Since 1999, Meyer's ministry has reported spending at least $4 million on five homes for Meyer and her four children.
Among the items under Senate investigation are a $23,000 "commode with marble top," a $30,000 conference table and an $11,219 French clock, all purchased for Meyer's ministry headquarters.
Meyer seems unapologetic about her accumulated wealth: "If you stay in your faith, you are going to get paid. I am living now in my reward."
Although Paul and Jan Crouch, founders of Trinity Broadcasting Network, are not under investigation by the committee, they epitomize what it means to wallow in materialism. With a combined annual salary of more than $700,000, the Crouches are among the highest paid in any of the major religious non-profit organizations. Since launching TBN in 1973, they have raised millions through telethons and appearances of popular personalities like Dollar.
TBN raises more than $120 million a year from its viewers, telling them they are "robbing God" if they are not giving to the network. Many of TBN's financial statements have not been made public, so it is difficult to ascertain exactly how the donations are being spent.
However, the Los Angeles Times reported that TBN owns 30 homes across the country, including a couple of mansions in Newport Beach and a Texas ranch home, which they make available to the Crouches.
As Crouch sums up his philosophy: "If my heart really, honestly desires a nice Cadillac ... would there be something terribly wrong with me saying, 'Lord, it is the desire of my heart to have a nice car ... and I'll use it for Your glory'? I think I could do that and in time, as I walked in obedience with God, I believe I'd have it."
Acting on public complaints, Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of the Senate Finance Committee has launched an investigation into alleged financial wrongdoing involving six high-profile televangelists, all of whom run "non-profit" organizations...
Creflo Dollar, pastor of World Changers Church International, is among those under investigation. He has several Rolls Royces, private jets, a million-dollar home in Atlanta and a $2.5 million Manhattan apartment.
Best-selling author and televangelist Joyce Meyer also is under investigation. Her office headquarters, with its 158,000-square-foot, three-story building and furniture estimated at $5.7 million, was built for $20 million in 2001. Since 1999, Meyer's ministry has reported spending at least $4 million on five homes for Meyer and her four children.
Among the items under Senate investigation are a $23,000 "commode with marble top," a $30,000 conference table and an $11,219 French clock, all purchased for Meyer's ministry headquarters.
Meyer seems unapologetic about her accumulated wealth: "If you stay in your faith, you are going to get paid. I am living now in my reward."
Although Paul and Jan Crouch, founders of Trinity Broadcasting Network, are not under investigation by the committee, they epitomize what it means to wallow in materialism. With a combined annual salary of more than $700,000, the Crouches are among the highest paid in any of the major religious non-profit organizations. Since launching TBN in 1973, they have raised millions through telethons and appearances of popular personalities like Dollar.
TBN raises more than $120 million a year from its viewers, telling them they are "robbing God" if they are not giving to the network. Many of TBN's financial statements have not been made public, so it is difficult to ascertain exactly how the donations are being spent.
However, the Los Angeles Times reported that TBN owns 30 homes across the country, including a couple of mansions in Newport Beach and a Texas ranch home, which they make available to the Crouches.
As Crouch sums up his philosophy: "If my heart really, honestly desires a nice Cadillac ... would there be something terribly wrong with me saying, 'Lord, it is the desire of my heart to have a nice car ... and I'll use it for Your glory'? I think I could do that and in time, as I walked in obedience with God, I believe I'd have it."
