{"id":11000,"date":"2013-10-25T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=11000"},"modified":"2013-10-25T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:15:26","slug":"todd-bentley-it-rains-gold-when-i-preach-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2013\/10\/todd-bentley-it-rains-gold-when-i-preach-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Bentley: It Rains Gold When I Preach&#8230;.Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>You remember Todd Bentley, right?<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the tattooed evangelist who <a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=4967\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">cures cancer by punching people in the chest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=7584\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">kicks old ladies in the face to heal them<\/a> of whatever ails them.<\/p>\n<p>So, obviously you can trust anything he says.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it seems he\u2019s moved on from kung fu faith healing for the moment and on to bigger and better and shinier things.<\/p>\n<p>Shiny as in gold.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bentley, wherever he goes gold follows.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bentley: It Rained Gold During Our Revival In South Africa\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VGh5o5jiIts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>I hope the Hoffmans from <em>Gold Rush<\/em> see this video.<\/p>\n<p>If they hired this guy they could stop digging around in the cold Alaskan mud and just follow Bentley around with bags collecting all that heavenly gold.<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, that wouldn\u2019t work because as we all know cameras <del>expose the scam<\/del> keep the miracle from happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You remember Todd Bentley, right? 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