You may remember some time back when I wrote about Benny Hinn getting divorced from his wife. Perhaps you also saw Scott Bailey’s post about Benny being linked romantically to fellow Charismatic preacher Paula White, pastor of Without Walls.
The couple downplayed the relationship, but apparently not everyone is buying it. Worse, it appears that the relationship began before the ink on the divorce papers was dry. For someone like Benny, this is more than just an embarassment. From Christianity Today:
Televangelist Benny Hinn is being sued by Strang Communications, a publishing company that alleges that Hinn violated a morality clause in their contract when he began an “inappropriate relationship” with Without Walls pastor Paula White.
In August, The National Enquirer published photos of Hinn and White holding hands in Rome. Hinn was married to Suzanne Hinn at the time. His wife had filed for divorce in February 2010.
“I will not deny that the friendship has strengthened, and, while it has remained morally pure at all times, I have enjoyed the company of someone who has also gone through the trauma of a painful and public divorce,” Hinn said in a statement at the time.
So Benny is being sued for “moral turpitude” by the Charismatic publishing house Strang Communications, who want $250,000 back from a $300,000 advance they gave him for the book Blood in the Sand. Reading between the lines, it looks like Strang is also angry that the book did not do very well, and they blame Benny’s lack of support for the failure. His possible indiscretion gives them a way to recoup some of their losses.
But Anthea Butler points out, the fight about Blood in the Sand is blood in the water:
When the premier charismatic organization goes after one of its own, it is pretty clear that the avenues previously open to Hinn are closing. To be sued by Strang Communications shuts Hinn off from both his publishing arm and his advertising. If Hinn doesn’t resolve his suit with Strang soon, it may be his body hitting the floor instead of the hapless audience.
I read the headline as Benny Hill. My bad.
Benny Hill was funny at least ^^.
I sure hope he never renounces his religion. Right now, he’s an excellent theist Bozo. I don’t want him as an atheist Bozo.
I don’t know, I think that he would be a great weapon to slayer the believers with. If some of our best could work with him about how to get the message out to his ex followers. A calm, more peaceful Benny without all the razzmatazz would I think work rather well for the atheist cause. Showing that atheism is about reason and logic and not funny theatre slaying in the spirit revivals.
Yeah. If it would really work out that way. I’m just afraid he’d haul out his light saber again and embarrass us.
For all the damage the mega-preachers do, at some point I can’t help but feel that the people who follow the Benny Hinn’s of the world deserve what ever happens to them.
Nightmare fuel: Can you imagine Benny Hinn and Paula White actually being intimate?
I imagine that there are very few males on the planet less able to please a woman than Benny. I suppose the only question for me would be: Do they have the worst sex on the planet or the worst sex ever?
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
What’s the problem? “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven”!
Hinn is such a sleaze. He always seems to slither out from under what ever problem is troubling him, but collectivley they will have an impact. Then his sadly deluded, open to any fraud completely conned followers will see the sloppy, shrill little piece of sh*t for what he is. Hope they show it all live.
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Oh Robster,
You are SOOOO on target…….with everything you’ve written. I think “Slither” is particularly appropriate for that shreiking snake………