Xianity in Amerikkka
6 July 2008 by Bob
My Financial Records Belong to God
Last fall, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, began probing the finances of six TV evangelists whose lifestyles include mansions, Rolls-Royces, and private jets, all paid for out of church funds. Grassley told BBC, “I would not contribute to an organization that is Christian and evangelical with money being wasted that way.” Four of the ministers have since complied with the probe, but Rev. Kenneth Copeland, whose congregation recently bought him a $20 million private jet to preach the gospel, is holding out against the inquiry, which he claims is “aimed at publicly questioning the religious beliefs of the targeted churches.” “It’s not yours, it’s God’s, and you’re not going to get it,” Copeland says of his financial records. He has launched a website to publicize his crusade and has received support from several leading conservatives, including Paul Weyrich and Kenneth Blackwell.
Praise be! Glory!
6 July 2008, on 5:33 pm
You can have my Go(l)d Card when you can pry it from my cold dead fingers!!
6 July 2008, on 6:57 pm
So much for “Render unto Caesar…”
6 July 2008, on 8:36 pm
“It’s not yours, it’s God’s, and you’re not going to get it,”
Actually, Mr. Copeland, if the government/IRS discovers that you are engaging in practices that bring your tax-exempt status into question (you are), then you are wrong on both of the above counts.
So much for this camel passing through the eye of a needle.
6 July 2008, on 9:27 pm
You’d think this idiot would’ve learned something when Dr Dino went to jail. It didn’t work then and it’s not going to work now.
6 July 2008, on 11:02 pm
I’d be surprised if douchebag Copeland even keeps serious financial records. He just got kicked off of the Oral Roberts University board of regents. Makes me wonder what “god” has to hide, hmmm?
I remember stumbling across the old Believers Voice of Victory show on tv. I admit, he always seemed quite sincere(compared to other, less talented actors of the televangelism world.) Unlike many televangelist fundraisers, he was pretty fire and brimstone, scaring old ladies into paying his extortion.
According to the wikipedia page on him, he has contributed heavily to various causes, but I would like to know what percentage of income is spent on charity…and no, giving to other churches with the intent of increasing the kingdom doesn’t count.
7 July 2008, on 1:10 am
The man is a piece of shit. Typical lying christian.
7 July 2008, on 12:56 pm
bob:
You forgot, “fuckbag, dickwad asshat”.
7 July 2008, on 4:08 pm
I guess the late, great George Carlin was right. God may be all powerful and all knowing but he just can’t handle money.
Besides, if Copeland got out of the televangelism business, he’d have to make an honest living instead.
7 July 2008, on 10:00 pm
I’ve heard the expression ‘God is my co-pilot’ before but ‘God is my accountant’…?
7 July 2008, on 10:58 pm
Dog knows that all, I say, all of those dollars were contributed willingly and knowingly; in the best of faith. Just as they are in all churches.
And yet it’s funny how knowledge of the immediate and long range plans of the master builder of Universes is so often correlated with a plague of mammon.
Biblical, man.
8 July 2008, on 12:20 pm
Chapter 24 of Why Won’t God Heal Amputees?
Why does Jesus need your money?