I can't say I blame her.....

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Several years ago, ckgriffin went off on a tear about the so-called "Prosperity Gospel" ministries. Which led me to look at them, (and recoil in horror).

Not surprisingly, they also have ties to the "Dominionist" movement that are "steeplejacking" more mainstream congregations.

This is a pretty scary article about such.

Believer bitter over 'prosperity' preachings

"The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor's living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches.

And so the 53-year-old accountant from the Tampa, Florida, area pledged $500 a year to Joyce Meyer, the evangelist whose frank talk about recovering from childhood sexual abuse was so inspirational. She wrote checks to flamboyant faith healer Benny Hinn and a local preacher-made-good, Paula White.

Only the blessings didn't come. Fleenor ended up borrowing money from friends and payday loan companies just to buy groceries. At first she believed the explanation given on television: Her faith wasn't strong enough."

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