re: #71 Joe Bacon ✅

Well my goodness is this Pulpit Pimp coming clean?

Sort of…
*snip*

alternet.org

Two things:

1) Other Evangelicals don’t buy that Hinn has given up his grifting ways. Mike Winger did a four hour plus video last month, which was complete overkill, but just hammering over and over and OVER again that Hinn’s still shaking down people for money. Just to be clear, I think Mike thinks entirely too much of himself. And I’m not going to spend days watching his anti-women preachers / pro-complementarian garbage. That said, if you want to spend 10 minutes watching one Evangelical go after another, here ya go:

The Victims of Benny Hinn: 30 Years of Spiritual Deception.

I will note that I do like how Benny keeps trying to take down Mike’s work with YouTube copyright strikes and YouTube keeps telling Benny to put a sock in it. It’s rare that YT will do this.

2) Benny Hinn’s nephew Costi pastors a church near where I live. I’ve protested it. I may go back and protest it again because Costi allowed himself to be used as a stooge for the truly execrable John MacArthur (who got a protest from me on June 19, 2002, my birthday, MacArthur’s birthday and Juneteenth, which was appropriate, because JMac doesn’t think slavery is a big thing).

A few weeks back, MacArthur and Costi were on a panel and JMac (who is coming up on 84 years old) just absolutely WENT OFF on mental health issues. “There is no such thing as PTSD.” MacArthur also said that children who take drugs for mental health issues run the risk of becoming “drug addicts” or “criminals.” And Costi Hinn just sat there like a fucking lump on a fucking log.

Like I said, Costi’s church is near me, and I’ve debated whether to run out with a sign. The guy is a fucking chickenshit and as someone who has absolutely *benefited* from evil psych drugs, the fact that he couldn’t even bring himself to bite the hand that feeds him and protect people says volumes to me.

(If you want background, but this comes from an Evangelical perspective so it’s not as to the jugular as I’d like, but it makes good points: religionunplugged.com)

/end of Sunday morning rant