Hinn a Real Honey!

This my friends, is why I decided to start "The Church of Allan!"

(That, and to promote my book and ideas!)

Prosperous pastor Benny Hinn flew into Brisbane a multimillionaire. He left, 28 hours and three shows later, an estimated $800,000 richer.

The Queensland capital was a goldmine for the flamboyant televangelist who left with cash, cheques and the bank account and credit card details of more than 50,000 Australians fans.

Evangelist Benny Hinn is controversial for his frequently aberrant - and at times heretical - theology, his unorthodox practices, and his false claims. Nevertheless, large numbers of people who indentify themselves as Christians follow - and, often, appear to worship - this preacher.

Some attendees, who travelled from as far away as Hong Kong and Perth, handed over gold earrings and wedding rings instead of cash.

An Australian Taxation Office spokeswoman said Pastor Hinn’s Australian haul – part of an estimated $110 million donated to the World Healing Centre Church each year – was seen as a “love offering”.

“The tax office is unable to comment on individual tax matters,” the spokeswoman said.

“However gifts received by churches aren’t usually tax-exempt unless they’re given in a personal capacity. It’s a very complicated issue.”

An Australian Customs Service spokeswoman said Pastor Hinn’s visa allowed him to leave the country two hours after his 3pm show on February 16.

He travelled aboard his $36 million Gulfstream jet to Auckland, part of a 27-stop world tour expected to generate more than $10 million.

The 105,000 Australians who attended Pastor Hinn’s shows in 1998 were believed to have donated more than $1 million.

Brisbane attendees at his February 15 and 16 shows were urged to give as much as $10,000 each.

Conservative estimates place the Australian donations, minus merchandise sales, at $800,000.

Pastor Hinn says he is accountable to God and authorities which oversee not-for-profit organisations. But on November 6, the US Senate Committee on Finance announced he would be investigated.

Senator Chuck Grassley said he believed Hinn, and other wealthy pastors, had experienced personal gain through tax-exempt work.

So remember folks, the "Perspective" staff has grown to close to 20, and they all have families to feed, so please keep those donations coming!

May Howard Bless You!

(P.S. People ask why I call God........ Howard! That's because we are on a first name basis. "Our Father who art in heaven, Howard by thy name!" See? )

(P.P.S. Don't think for a minute that I am condemning good ol' Benny. If people are that stupid and he can get away with it...................... more power to him!)

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available at the web site http://www.god-101.com/

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Benny, Benny! You're in deep doo-doo!

If there were such a thing as a literal HELL, then Benny Hinn would be first in line to gain entrance.

Not because of what he has done personally, but rather because of what he has done to other people over the years.

You see, Benny is a prophet and messenger of false hope.

Benny is one the most popular and revered televangelists in the world and has a fanatical following that numbers in the millions.

He has consistently led these people astray with false hope that he could heal their maladies and has even claimed that one person was raised from the dead during one of his ministries.

To give you a background on this charlatan here is a brief biography of Benny courtesy of Wikipedia.

Benny Hinn was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Greek father and an Armenian mother. He was raised as a Toronto boy within the Greek Orthodox Church, and attended Georges Vanier Secondary School where he was known as Teufik Hinn.

He has written that on December 21, 1973, he traveled by charter bus from Toronto to Pittsburgh to attend a "miracle service" conducted by evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman.

Although he never met her personally, he often attended her “healing services” and has often cited her as an early influence in his life.

Always more interested in religion than anything else he founded the Orlando Christian Center in 1983. During its heyday the church averaged over 10,000 in attendance.

In 1999, he handed the church (by the time renamed to the World Outreach Center) to Clint Brown and moved to Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth, while maintaining the legal entity “World Outreach Center Benny Hinn Ministries”.

His former church was renamed Faith World Church under the Pastoring of Clint Brown, author of 250 praise songs and 14 albums, who merged his Orlando church with Hinn's.

Benny Hinn is well known for his flamboyant, highly theatrical and often controversial style of ministry, at which members of the congregation and the choir are frequently "slain in the Spirit" en masse, and purported heeling's of medical conditions, whether Lou Gehrig's disease, AIDS, arthritis or cancer, are televised from the stage.

He hosts a thirty-minute show, This Is Your Day, on various Christian television networks, including Trinity Broadcasting Network, Daystar Television Network, Revelation TV, The Christian Channel, Vision TV, INSP Networks, and The God Channel.

He also organizes regular "Miracle Crusades" – revival meeting/faith healing summits that are usually held in large stadiums in major cities.

His teaching is similar in many respects to the Word of Faith doctrine, with a particular emphasis on healing.

In March 2005, Ministry Watch, an independent evangelical organization which reviews Christian ministries for financial transparency and efficiency and advises potential donors accordingly, issued a Donor Alert stating that "the reported exorbitant spending of the Hinn family reveals that BHM has far more money than it needs to carry out its ministry."

It is advising Christians to "prayerfully consider withholding contributions to Benny Hinn" while praying for his restoration and repentance.

(Hinn lives in an ocean-front mansion valued at an estimated $10 million in an exclusive gated community in Dana Point, California, travels by private aircraft, and stays in hotel rooms costing upwards of $3,000 per night. In December 2006, he sent out a mailing asking for donations towards a new Gulfstream G4SP jet valued at an estimated $36 million.)

Starting in June of 2007, at the end of his This is Your Day program, Hinn stated he is behind in his bills to TBN and said he needs "your love gifts" so he can become current and continue to preach the gospel around the world.

Hinn stated the cost of his worldwide crusades and the increased price of everything else has left him financially behind in his bills.

Just so you know, this ministry is currently receiving a "F" rating in financial transparency from Ministry Watch.

Now, back to the reason Benny Boy is going to hell!

Is it the money.............. NOOOOOO! Money is just money, and can be replaced.

Benny is going to HELL because he is giving false hope to millions and also preventing them from receiving proper medical care for their ailments.

All this because they are under the deluded belief that they have been cured.

During a CBC documentary last night they showed how people who were REALLY sick, (i.e. in wheels chairs and crutches) were prevented from going up on the stage and only people who had no visible signs of illness were allowed to attend and be "healed!"

Benny claimed that anyone who was presented on T.V. was later verified by a doctor as having been healed and it turned out that this was a bold faced LIE!

The reason I brought this whole thing up is because my wife has Lymphoma and is not in the "curable" category, so she had a vested interest in watching this documentary on Benny Hinn to see just what the truth is behind his claims.

She knew going in that he was a fake, but the real crime committed here is that at the end of the program she wasn't even sure anymore that such things a "miracles" ever really happen!

Benny took away her hope to a certain degree, and for that I will never forgive him!

Almost makes me wish that there was such a thing as hell because there are some people who definitely belong there!

Your "pissed" scribe;
Allan W Janssen

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com