OOZING sincerity from every pore, Jamaican–born televangelist Paul Lewis tells gullible audiences that he has a cure for cancer, AIDS, and a host of other diseases, afflictions and problems. Lewis and his ‘miracle’ olive oil soap. Click on pic to learn of its healing properties. His “miracle” olive oil soap will even get you “a [...]
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RANDY Roberts Potts, grandson of one of America’s most famous televangelists – Oral Roberts – is a man on a mission … to convince “conservative” Bible Belt communities that gay relationships are more than just a matter of sex, but about love and companionship, and “being human”. In an interview with CNN, Potts, who spent [...]
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PAT Robertson – one of the brightest stars in the firmament of US religious nutjobs – has been mouthing off on his 700 Club programme on the subject of Alzheimer’s disease. Asked by a viewer how she should advise a friend who had begun dating another woman even though his wife was still alive but suffering from [...]
A TOWERING monument to evangelical cheesiness, southern California’s Crystal Cathedral – birthplace of the televangelist show “Hour of Power – has spectacularly gone belly up. The megachurch this week filed for bankruptcy after struggling to emerge from debt that exceeds $43 million. In addition to a $36 million mortgage, the Orange County-based church owes $7.5 [...]
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THE wife of televangelist Benny (“The Hair”) Hinn has filed for divorce from the parasitic pastor, whose reputation as an advocate of “prosperity” gospel has attracted millions of followers and criticism from lawmakers and watchdog groups over his lavish lifestyle. Suzanne Hinn filed the papers in Orange County Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences, after more [...]
WHILE aid agencies struggle to bring relief to Haitians in the wake of the recent devastating earthquake, a war of words has broken out between two US evangelists over money raised by one of them to deal with disasters of this sort. According to the Rev Rich Vermilion, Kenneth Copeland, of the infamous Kenneth Copeland [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 