Benny Hinn
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'''Benny Hinn''' (not to be confused with the much funnier Benny Hill) is a [[faith healing|faith healer]], [[televangelist]], [[prophet]], Sith Lord,<ref>YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9SS95q2kpg Benny Hinn - Dark Lord of the Sith]</ref> minister and, more importantly, a [[crank]]. His purveyance of [[bullshit]] is second to none and he certainly knows how to put the profit into prophet. He performs his <s>acts</s> [[anointing|anointments]], called "Miracle Crusades", in large stadiums, to be broadcast on "This is your day", his television program whose target audience suffers from [[false hope]]. Hinn is of [[Armenia|Armenian]] descent and talks with a particularly unusual, masgnetising accent. | '''Benny Hinn''' (not to be confused with the much funnier Benny Hill) is a [[faith healing|faith healer]], [[televangelist]], [[prophet]], Sith Lord,<ref>YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9SS95q2kpg Benny Hinn - Dark Lord of the Sith]</ref> minister and, more importantly, a [[crank]]. His purveyance of [[bullshit]] is second to none and he certainly knows how to put the profit into prophet. He performs his <s>acts</s> [[anointing|anointments]], called "Miracle Crusades", in large stadiums, to be broadcast on "This is your day", his television program whose target audience suffers from [[false hope]]. Hinn is of [[Armenia|Armenian]] descent and talks with a particularly unusual, masgnetising accent. | ||
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Benny Hinn (not to be confused with the much funnier Benny Hill) is a faith healer, televangelist, prophet, Sith Lord,[1] minister and, more importantly, a crank. His purveyance of bullshit is second to none and he certainly knows how to put the profit into prophet. He performs his acts anointments, called "Miracle Crusades", in large stadiums, to be broadcast on "This is your day", his television program whose target audience suffers from false hope. Hinn is of Armenian descent and talks with a particularly unusual, masgnetising accent.
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Prosperity gospel
Mr. Hinn's ministries are part of a movement known as "prosperity gospel". The basic premise is that if you have enough faith to give generously to the church, you will be rewarded by God somewhere down the road. Hinn spends hours lecturing on the power of the holy ghost and encourages his audience to suspend reason and let the spirit move them (to empty their bank accounts and/or max out their credit cards so God will bless them). His sermons include numerous anecdotes on the various 48-hour to 40-day clear and undisputed miracles where people are rewarded financially or otherwise after giving to his ministry. Eventually, his henchmen distribute several dozen buckets among the audience and rake in the cash. Though it may be hard to believe, his ministry is suspected of misusing its funds.
Bible
Benny Hinn was quick to punt the 'The Master's Healing Presence Bible'..... his own private edition of the bible with bits he's added and quotes from other authors, those in our source are long dead the latest died in 1976, so they will not criticise how Hinn used the quotes. .[2] It’s "filled with the miraculous and the powerful manifestation of God"[3] and what's more sections dealing with "healing, the Holy Spirit, faith, prayer and, the presence of God" are color coded. [4]
It’s a special Bible, it’s a healing Bible and at just under 90 a volume it’s an expensive Bible.[5]
if Hinn cares so much about the bible perhaps he should look at 1 Timothy 6:9-10:-
6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. [6]
If Hinn took all that seriously it could reform his ministery.
Undercover reporting
In 2001, HBO's America Undercover ran an episode covering both Hinn and German crank Reinhard Bonnke.[7] As part of the episode, and at America Undercover's request, Hinn supplied the names of five people "healed" at his Crusade. When HBO checked back a year later, none of the parishioners had been healed at all (their initial feelings of being healed can probably be attributed to the placebo effect). Two of them had subsequently died: a woman whose cancer had come out of remission shortly after she attended the Crusade, and a ten-year-old boy, also of cancer, whose parents blamed themselves for not being "faithful enough," as they felt that their boy would have lived if only they had given Hinn more money. In typical Hinn fashion, he blamed HBO.
CBC Television also ran a program, “Do You Believe In Miracles” uncovering the scam when Hinn was exposed lying and taking money belonging to his church to spend himself. Hinn even employed security guards disguised as men from the church who kept genuinely sick followers away from the stage. People with clearly visible conditions like cerabral palsy and other types of paralysis could not get onto the stage for healing though some were desperate. [8] "Dateline" secretly filmed a great deal that Hinn wanted to hide. [9]
False prophecies
- God would destroy the homosexual community in America in 1995
- America’s East Coast would be destroyed by major earthquakes before 2000
- In October 1999, he appeared on TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) and claimed that God had given him a vision that thousands of the dead would watch the network and be resurrected by touching the television screen (their relatives would need to carry the dead person to the television than put their hands on it)
- FIdel Castro would die during the 90′s
- The first female president of the United States of America would be elected [10]
Taste in luxury
Benny Hinn is known to stay in $4000 a night hotels. Local staff working backstage for Hinn are instructed not to make eye contact or otherwise approach him as this might 'take him out of the moment'.[11] Hinn travels modestly in a second hand buggy a lavish private jet plane worth $36,000,000 with annual maintenance costs of $600,000. Hinn lives in a lowdown dump in some not very nice trailer park a mansion worth several million dollars in a select rich area. [12]
External links
- Benny Hinn Healing Crusade Ends in Controversy
- Benny Hinn Comprehensive website
- A Miracle Crusade with fitting music YouTube video Benny Hinn gets some sort of perverse pleasure from pushing people to the floor.
Footnotes
- ↑ YouTube: Benny Hinn - Dark Lord of the Sith
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Healing-Presence-Bible-Ministries/dp/B000N167C6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1298374951&sr=8-2
- ↑ http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Master_s_Healing_Presence_Bible.html?id=6R4HAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
- ↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0718003691
- ↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Masters-Healing-Presence-Bible-KJV-Large-Print/dp/0718003691
- ↑ http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/1tim/6.html#9
- ↑ American Undercover: A Question of Miracles
- ↑ Pastor Benny Hinn: Fraud, Scam & Divorce
- ↑ Benny Hinn is a Fake
- ↑ Pastor Benny Hinn: Fraud, Scam & Divorce
- ↑ News that matters
- ↑ Pastor Benny Hinn: Fraud, Scam & Divorce