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Originally Posted by T@T
...If those barrel weren't filled with mostly "uncounted" cash Graham wouldn't have had a ministry for all those years...
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I agree completely, but this is different from what you inferred in your earlier post. The important point here is that donations went directly to the ministry, and not to B. Graham himself.
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Originally Posted by T@T
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... |
And here is the big difference between B. Graham and those actual con-men who bilk the gullible masses for cash. Graham did not personally benefit from such donations—at least not directly in the form of personal income. Unlike some of the more despicable televangelists such as Hinn, Poppoff, Copeland, Tilton, etc., Graham did not make outrageous miracle claims, nor did he offer promises of personal financial gain in exchange for donations. He was actively quite adamant about ensuring that donations remained WITHIN THE MINISTRY, and were NOT to be used to line his pockets. Before his retirement, B. Graham was the CEO of a multi-national, multi-million dollar organisation, and received an annual salary of around $150,000. That's a pretty modest compensation for a man in his position, and hardly indicative of someone whose intentions are to get rich.