You've got to read this piece below. I'm sure it's happened to you too; you're channel surfing and come across one of those diamond ring wearing preachers on TBN. Enjoy!
Evangelical Monday–”TBN”
March 31st, 2008
Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is the largest religious broadcasting network in the world. They have over 10,000 stations that literally span the globe. Its founders, Paul and Jan Crouch, may have come from humble beginnings, but their lifestyle is anything but humble today. And, TBN’s airwaves are filled with the voices of many of the money-loving preachers I’ve been exposing on my “Evangelical Monday” blogs; the likes of Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Copeland etc. The old saying, “birds of a feather flock together”, often holds true.
Paul and Jan Crouch have “tightened their belts” and managed to get by with a combined annual income of $800,000. They have humbled themselves to live in a $5 million oceanfront home in California that has an elevator, billiard room, climate controlled wine room, as well as nine bathrooms. Let’s see, that would be four and a half bathrooms apiece. That almost seems like more than necessary for two people, but maybe they have diarrhea a lot. Oh, I forgot to mention that they also have a $10 million, 80 acre ranch in Texas that has another eight houses. Hmm, that would be another four houses each. I guess they just need some private space to be alone at times. And, who are we to judge? We’ve all played the game of musical chairs. Perhaps Paul and Jan play a variation of the game, “musical houses”. Like Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar and most other tv preachers, Paul has a $13 million private jet furnished to him by TBN. I imagine that was donation money well-spent because Paul has to keep up with the other tv hucksters. Can you imagine how embarrassing it would be for Paul to have to fly “first class” on a regular airline, while “Brother Benny”, Joyce and Creflo fly in their own private jets? The man has a reputation to protect; in fact, quite a reputation, as you will see.
Maybe I’m being too hard on Paul and Jan. After all, Paul did limit the size of his executive office in the TBN building to just 8000 square feet. And, he was very discreet about its construction. He only allowed a special crew of 25 carpenters to work on it, while it was off-limits to everyone else. Now that I think about it, his executive office is still off-limits to everyone but Paul and Jan themselves, and special guests who they personally invite to visit with them in Paul’s modest “work area”. What kind of conditions does Paul have to endure as he slaves away? Just an office that’s four times larger than the average American house, and that contains a sauna, gym, bar, ornate velvet furniture and the most expensive custom, walnut woodworking available in the world. You know, the kind of stuff that I’m sure you’d find in your local insurance or real estate agent’s office. Did I mention that the 25 member carpentry crew worked full-time for six months on Paul’s office, which would have been a labor cost of about $780,000. Once again, you can see that Paul and Jan made sure to “cut corners” to save their donors unnecessary expenses.
Also, don’t pay any attention to those stories that became public a few years ago regarding Paul’s alleged homosexual affair with his former limo driver. What’s the chances of that being true? Just because the story has been corroborated by a former employee of Crouch’s good friend Benny Hinn, and by an attorney who worked at the law firm that TBN and Crouch used for handling their legal matters. And, just because Paul paid his alleged “gay partner” $425,000 in hush money, does not mean that Paul is guilty, right?
In view of the kind of characters being covered each week in my “Evangelical Monday” blogs, I’m beginning to wonder if I shouldn’t change the name of my Monday segments to something more appropriate; maybe a soap opera kind of name like, “As The Stomach Turns”.
The website I copied this from allows you to do so. They also have a good blog just posted today about "The Obama Project". The web address is:
http://www.rightwingexposed.com
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