MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
At least these folks are selling Jesus, not wars. Although both war and Jesus are often used and exploited together, to The Base, by the demagogues and hucksters of the Republican Party.
Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — For 39 years, the Trinity Broadcasting Network has urged viewers to give generously and reap the Lord’s bounty in return...The prosperity gospel preached by Paul and Janice Crouch, who built a single station into the world’s largest Christian television network.....Mr. and Mrs. Crouch have his-and-her mansions one street apart in a gated community here, provided by the network using viewer donations and tax-free earnings. But Mrs. Crouch, 74, rarely sleeps in the $5.6 million house with tennis court and pool. She mostly lives in a large company house near Orlando, Fla., where she runs a side business, the Holy Land Experience theme park. Mr. Crouch, 78, has an adjacent home there too, but rarely visits.....The lavish perquisites, corroborated by two other former TBN employees, include additional, often-vacant homes in Texas and on the former Conway Twitty estate in Tennessee, corporate jets valued at $8 million and $49 million each and thousand-dollar dinners with fine wines, paid with tax-exempt money....dozens of staff members......chauffeurs, sound engineers and others had been ordained as ministers by TBN. This allowed the network to avoid paying Social Security taxes on their salaries and made it easier to justify providing family members with rent-free houses, sometimes called “parsonages,” ...Janice Crouch, called “Mama” on the air, is known for her pink-tinged wigs, which look like huge swirls of cotton candy, and for talking emotionally about the Lord’s blessings.....Ms. Crouch was seldom without her little white dogs, pushing them in a pink stroller and keeping a costly motor home, originally purchased to serve as an office, for two years as an air-conditioned sanctuary for her pets, the two former employees said....
Comments
Nice work if you can get it.
I suggest when they make the movie, it star Angelica Huston and John Cusack.
by SleepinJeezus on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 3:41am
This is more or less what I had in mind when I told Jerry Cimino "When you live in a Christian Theocracy, it's good to be a Christian Church"
by jollyroger on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 5:37pm