Quote:
Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Which no one is obliged to put money in, and it is explicitly stated so.
|
I realize that...lets face facts though much like the salvation army people at christmas in the malls...they make you feel small if you don't donate.
If those barrel weren't filled with mostly "uncounted" cash Graham wouldn't have had a ministry for all those years.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Textcritic
I did not forget. The question was about the source of Graham's wealth, and the "donation barrels" were very clearly NOT part of that. All the money collected at his crusades went straight back into his ministry (from which he drew a salary), and not into his pockets.
There are A LOT of charlatans out there who manipulate religion as a way to get rich, but B. Graham was not one of them. He certainly had his flaws, but being a money-grubbing con man was not one of them.
|
You say that like you believe it, maybe you do!
Personally anyone who slings a pile of crappola on TV with "send help to" commercials and puts barrels for cash "donations" at the exits of his sermons is a friken con man.
I'll give him this though...he'll go down as one of the best ever.