by VorJack
I feel a little bit dirty for posting this, but here goes:
Wife of televangelist Benny Hinn files for divorce
The wife of televangelist Benny Hinn has filed for divorce from the high-profile pastor, whose reputation as an advocate of prosperity gospel has attracted millions of followers and criticism from lawmakers and watchdog groups over his lavish lifestyle.
Yes, Benny Hinn, the celebrity pastor of the Prosperity Gospel, has been stricken with the “spirit of divorce.” His wife, Suzanne Hinn, moved out in late January and is now breaking it off entirely. For his ministry, it gets worse: Suzanne has hired Sorell Trope as her divorce attorney. Trope is the celebrity lawyer who represented Nichole Kidman and Elin Nordegren, the wife of Tiger Woods.
Look, I don’t want to celebrate anyone’s divorce. I don’t want to think about the ugliness that could result from this, and the damage it might do to their children. But if Suzanne Hinn and her attorney can rip open Benny Hinn’s finances and make them public during the trial, then the good done might make the whole thing worth it.
I can’t decide whether I’m being naive or cynical, but I have a hunch that a good divorce lawyer could reveal more about Hinn’s fraud than Senator Grassley ever could.
In order to salve my conscience, I offer you Benny’s star appearance in the heavy metal mash-up: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor!
For a second I mistook this article to be about Ted Haggard. I was disappointed when I realized my folly.
I can’t decide whether I’m being naive or cynical, but I have a hunch that a good divorce lawyer could reveal more about Hinn’s fraud than Senator Grassley ever could.
I don’t think you’re being either. A good divorce lawyer will be able to do a few things that a Senator can not. For starters, a good lawyer can make this about Hinn’s business and not about Hinn’s religion. Guys like Hinn can use their religion as a shield against politicians, but not against civil cases. Contract fraud, domestic divorce – those are the places where con artists usually finally get their due.
*headbangs*
Karma 1, Jeebus 0.
Schadenfreude is such a bitter sweet treat. A measure of its joy comes from denouncing it while you wear it like a new coat.
Hinn’s misery will put a smile on my face today.
That video made my morning, the comments on Youtube made me sick.
One of the few Laws of the Internet is this:
THOU SHALT NOT READ YOUTUBE COMMENTS
Best case: reading YouTube comments will make your day just slightly more miserable than it was before you read them.
Worst case: someday you’ll read a YouTube comment that will make you so angry it will give you an anuerism.
There is nothing to be gained and everything to be lost by reading YouTube comments. I even have a little greasemonkey script installed on my firefox install that blocks the comment box from even rendering. Not only does it make YouTube load a lot faster in my browser, it prevents me from accidentally glancing down into the comment section and having my brain seize up on me. Win-win all around…
“Hello Pastor Benny, its me Jerry Seinfeld, I got this new show on NBC called the Marriage Ref . We would love to have you and the Mrs. on my show. I know it would be a step down for you, since TBN has more viewers the NBC. Have your people call my people. Shalom.”
THIS
I guess it remains to be seen if Hinn’s wife (and her lawyer) are really interested in uncovering Hinn’s financial records. One could suspect that the less attention they get, the more she stands to benefit from them.
For some reason this video made me think there should either be a video game of comic series to represent it.
You play Benny Hinn and have to fight off hordes of hysterical Christians using only your magic $5000 Jacket.
I think it will be hilarious if things get nasty during the divorce resulting in a lot of dirt coming out. Maybe we’ll find out the true reason she’s leaving him. We already know it’s not because she has “suddenly discovered” that her husband is a fraud. Maybe she found out he likes to take a wide stance in the public men’s room stall, or maybe he’s taken an affinity to wearing vibrating underwear during his healing services. More likely it will be something mundane like a half-used bottle of Viagra she’s found in his closet. This would be a significant discovery, especially if she hadn’t allowed him to touch her for the past umpteen years, something which would not surprise me in the least.
I know this is all just a little bit sordid. I admit I am only making trash-talk here with no evidence to back it up, but the way I see it, when your name is Benny Hinn and you put yourself on a big creamy white pedestal of miracles and senstationalism, you’re a fair target when your empire of greed and BS finally begins to crumble and tumble down. I can’t wait for him to fall flat on his smug smiling face. Maybe he’ll scrape himself up off the ground and admit there is no god…but I’m not holding my breath!
Man, that video never gets old.
Is the a George Romeo film with Benny Hinn as the star? Ugh, this disgusts me. I can’t tell who’s worse, Hinn or all the uneducated, gullible sheeple who actually believe in this garbage. He’s a con man and deserves whatever he gets.
This made my day. The man is a charlatan. I hope this is a heavy blow to his credibility and the beginning of the end for his ministry i.e. racket. *spits on the floor*
I’m not into HM music. Whose tune is this?
Disturbed. “Let the bodies hit the floor”
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Man, what the power of suggestion can accomplish. It is almost sickening on how these people want to believe so bad and I see them just getting ripped off.
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