Excerpts from news story 11/18/07........followed by observations.
Huckabee links with
evangelist for 6 TV spots
Copeland finances under review
BY FRANK LOCKWOOD ARKANSAS
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Copyright � 2007, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.
Republican presidential candidate
Mike Huckabee will appear on national television this month with a Texas
televangelist whose teachings have been branded “heretical” and whose lavish
spending has sparked a congressional inquiry.
Huckabee, a minister and former head
of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, will sit down with Fort Worth
preacher Kenneth Copeland “for six days of frank discussion on the biblical
perspective of character, and the vital relevance true character has to the
Church today,” a full-page advertisement in the December issue of Charisma
magazine proclaims..................
Copeland, 70, worked as a copilot for faith healer Oral Roberts and
took classes at Oral Roberts University in the 1960s, before dropping
out to enter full-time ministry.
Today, he oversees a worldwide religious empire with offices in the
United States, South Africa, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and
Ukraine.
The Texan teaches that Jesus was a wealthy man, and that all of
Christ’s faithful followers are entitled to physical health and
financial prosperity. But to receive, you must give first, because
“giving is the key that opens the door” to blessings, the preacher
states on his Web site. The evangelist also teaches that anyone can be
healed of any infirmity - provided they have sufficient faith.
Copeland is a mentor for other prosperity gospel preachers and
according to his magazine, he has helped provide 26 airplanes to fellow
ministries.
Copeland and his wife have also given $4,600 to the Huckabee
campaign, the evangelist told the Democrat-Gazette earlier this month.....................
In his book, Christianity in Crisis, Christian Research Institute
President Hank Hanegraaff writes that Kenneth Copeland Ministries
“bears all the marks of a cult.”
Copeland’s nonprofit agency
rakes in untold millions of dollars. Because it is classified as a
church, it does not have to release key financial data like other
nonprofits do. MinistryWatch, an organization that monitors Christian
ministries, gives Kenneth Copeland Ministries an “F” grade for
transparency, saying it has not released a detailed budget.
An investigator with a Dallas-based televangelist watchdog group,
says Copeland preys on desperate people. “It’s extremely sad and
heartbreaking that these people are giving their last dollars and
expecting to get either a financial or a physical healing,” said Pete
Evans of the Trinity Foundation. “He’s certainly a snake-oil salesman.
He’s promising healings that he can’t deliver.”
Huckabee & Copeland, a marriage made in heaven? Wow, the Huckster attracts from Chuck Norris
to Kenneth Copeland. Kenneth Copeland claims direct contact with God while
siphoning off millions and Huck is working on his next shtick…political office
or religious icon? Showbiz and one-liners
reign supreme. Hallelujah.
Makes for one REALLY big show. Make way for the ultimate shell
game/Kabuki/smoke & mirrors performance.
Come one, come all to the final demise of the U.S. and
the Enlightenment/Founders…given up by the so-called citizens of said country
who have no idea (by design) what they are doing or why….heck, they don’t even
understand the original intent, thanks to the Huckster and untold others.
Huckabee, Copeland, Keyes, et al ride in on their “values”
horse with their altruistic (your life belongs to others not yourself) messages
meant to obfuscate and disarm. Lucky for
us the Founders never heard of it, nor would they have fallen for it, because “altruism”
was not invented until the late 1700’s by Auguste Comte, a philosopher
dedicated to the destruction of reason and individualism.
It is astounding that in 2007 so many people still listen
to sanctimonious words and don’t bother to check facts, fail to understand or
value our Founding Principles, and hand over their independent thinking to
con-men and criminals because it is easier than doing the work necessary to
wade through all the lies and subterfuge. The path of least resistance is also
the fastest path to destruction.
