Excerpts from news story  11/18/07........followed by observations.

Huckabee links with evangelist for 6 TV spots

Copeland finances under review

BY FRANK LOCKWOOD ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Copyright � 2007, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will appear on national television this month with a Texas televangelist whose teachings have been branded “heretical” and whose lavish spending has sparked a congressional inquiry.

Huckabee, a minister and former head of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, will sit down with Fort Worth preacher Kenneth Copeland “for six days of frank discussion on the biblical perspective of character, and the vital relevance true character has to the Church today,” a full-page advertisement in the December issue of Charisma magazine proclaims..................

Copeland, 70, worked as a copilot for faith healer Oral Roberts and took classes at Oral Roberts University in the 1960s, before dropping out to enter full-time ministry.

Today, he oversees a worldwide religious empire with offices in the United States, South Africa, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ukraine.

The Texan teaches that Jesus was a wealthy man, and that all of Christ’s faithful followers are entitled to physical health and financial prosperity. But to receive, you must give first, because “giving is the key that opens the door” to blessings, the preacher states on his Web site. The evangelist also teaches that anyone can be healed of any infirmity - provided they have sufficient faith.

Copeland is a mentor for other prosperity gospel preachers and according to his magazine, he has helped provide 26 airplanes to fellow ministries.

Copeland and his wife have also given $4,600 to the Huckabee campaign, the evangelist told the Democrat-Gazette earlier this month.....................

In his book, Christianity in Crisis, Christian Research Institute President Hank Hanegraaff writes that Kenneth Copeland Ministries “bears all the marks of a cult.”

Copeland’s nonprofit agency rakes in untold millions of dollars. Because it is classified as a church, it does not have to release key financial data like other nonprofits do. MinistryWatch, an organization that monitors Christian ministries, gives Kenneth Copeland Ministries an “F” grade for transparency, saying it has not released a detailed budget.

An investigator with a Dallas-based televangelist watchdog group, says Copeland preys on desperate people. “It’s extremely sad and heartbreaking that these people are giving their last dollars and expecting to get either a financial or a physical healing,” said Pete Evans of the Trinity Foundation. “He’s certainly a snake-oil salesman. He’s promising healings that he can’t deliver.”

Huckabee & Copeland, a marriage made in heaven?   Wow, the Huckster attracts from Chuck Norris to Kenneth Copeland. Kenneth Copeland claims direct contact with God while siphoning off millions and Huck is working on his next shtick…political office or religious icon?   Showbiz and one-liners reign supreme.  Hallelujah.

Makes for one REALLY big show.  Make way for the ultimate shell game/Kabuki/smoke & mirrors performance.

Come one, come all to the final demise of the U.S. and the Enlightenment/Founders…given up by the so-called citizens of said country who have no idea (by design) what they are doing or why….heck, they don’t even understand the original intent, thanks to the Huckster and untold others.

Huckabee, Copeland, Keyes, et al ride in on their “values” horse with their altruistic (your life belongs to others not yourself) messages meant to obfuscate and disarm.  Lucky for us the Founders never heard of it, nor would they have fallen for it, because “altruism” was not invented until the late 1700’s by Auguste Comte, a philosopher dedicated to the destruction of reason and individualism.

It is astounding that in 2007 so many people still listen to sanctimonious words and don’t bother to check facts, fail to understand or value our Founding Principles, and hand over their independent thinking to con-men and criminals because it is easier than doing the work necessary to wade through all the lies and subterfuge. The path of least resistance is also the fastest path to destruction.