What do normal folks do on Friday nights (unexpected night off)

For a man of God, Benny Hinn rates a solid 8.4 on the creepy scale. Just something weird about him. The suits with the collar buttoned to his chin, probably.

 

I do agree. There's something creepy about Benny Hinn. Something creepy. What could it be? [slower now] what could it be?

http://www.thedoormagazine.com/theheretic.html

THE HERETIC

Controversial televangelist and faith-healer Benny Hinn got word from on high to delay his plans for a World Healing Center in Irving, Texas.

By Joe Bob Briggs
Issue #191, January/February 2004


If you drive west from the city of Dallas, through the neo-moderne lunarscape of Las Colinas, past the airport on our denuded prairie, into the warren of faceless office buildings that make up cosmopolitan Grapevine, Texas, you'll never find Benny Hinn.

He wants it that way.

The nerve center of his worldwide organization is tucked away in a group of cheap white nondescript buildings that look like the kind of domiciles favored by Mafia fronts on the wharves of New Jersey. Inside, several dozen employees process an estimated $120 million per year in donations from people who believe in Hinn as a sort of Elmer Gantry for the 21st century. (Obviously they didn't read the novel.)

Now go the other way, into the cul-de-sacs and barrios of deep East Dallas. On a dead end street next to a nursing home, in an expansive two-story house once owned by the Dallas mob, the Trinity Foundation works 24/7 trying to find out just how much money passes through Grapevine, where it comes from and where it goes, running undercover operations, infiltrations, spying, surveillance, the cultivation of disgruntled ex-employees, and even going through Benny Hinn's garbage in an effort to... well ...to make him prove he's not a fraud.

"All we want is for Benny Hinn to make good on promises he made to me in 1993," says Ole Anthony, president of the Christian watchdog organization. "He promised he would stop airing fake healings, that he would medically verify all healings, that he would wait six months after the healing before putting it on TV, to make sure it was authentic. He said he would do all these things, and he's done none of them. It would also be nice if he would submit himself to a real theologian for examination. Some of his teachings are off the scale, even bordering on necromancy."