Poverty Is Not an Accident

Poverty Is Not an Accident
Nelson Mandela

Thursday, February 07, 2008

state sponsored "prosperity doctrine?"

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The more I read, the sicker I feel. SOME QUOTES:

He points out that material success is necessary
because if you don't have it you'll be thinking about
it all the time. But it is just one ingredient in his
mantra for real success which includes the progressive
expansion of happiness, the ability to have love and
compassion, the capacity for innate joy and the
ability to spread it to others. It also includes a
sense of meaning and purpose in life, and the
progressive realization of worthy goals--and that
includes material acquisitions. If you make those the
criteria for success, then you'll be very successful
and you won't get hypertension and heart
attacks--these are modern epidemics of disease caused
by a very fragmented view of success.

Chopra observes, "There's only one kind of poverty and
that's spiritual poverty. If you have spiritual
poverty, then you'll be unsuccessful. You can be very
rich, but if all you think about is money then you are
very poor. Wealth and poverty are states of mind."
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John Hagee

"Poverty is a curse."(John Hagee, Praise-A-Thon,
Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), 4 Nov, 1992.
Christian Research Institute Article on John Hagee)

"Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the Word of
God."(John Hagee, Praise-A-Thon, Trinity Broadcasting
Network (TBN), 16 April, 1993. Christian Research
Institute Article on John Hagee)

"Jesus was not poor...Jesus had a nice house! John
1:38 says that Jesus turned to those that were
following him and said, 'Come with me.' And they said,
'Where dwellest thou?' He said, 'Come and see.' And
Jesus took that whole crowd home with Him to stay in
His house. That meant it was a big house! Jesus wore
fine clothes! John 19:23 says, 'He had a seamless
robe.' Roman soldiers gambled for it at the foot of
the cross. It was a designer original! It was valuable
enough for them to want it!...And then there are
christians that have a poverty complex that says,
'Well, I feel guilty about having nice things.' Jesus
didn't!"(John Hagee, Praise-A-Thon, Trinity
Broadcasting Network (TBN), November 5, 2004)

Marilyn Hickey:

"What do you need? Start creating it. Start speaking
about it. Start speaking it into being. Speak to your
billfold. Say, "You big, thick billfold full of
money." Speak to your checkbook. Say, "You, checkbook,
you. You've never been so prosperous since I owned
you. You're just jammed full of money." (Marilyn
Hickey, "Claim Your Miracles" (Denver: Marilyn Hickey
Ministries, n.d., audiotape #186, side 2)

Benny Hinn:

"Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all
Christians prosperous." (Benny Hinn, TBN, 11/6/90)

"Say after me, all of you, everybody say it, 'The
wealth of the wicked is mine.' [The audience repeats.]
One more time, (The audience repeats) One more time.
(The audience repeats it again)" (Benny Hinn.
Praise-a-Thon, TBN, April 1990) (Its an old practice
that if you hear something said by your own voice long
enough you will believe it).

"The Lord giveth and NEVER taketh away. And just
because [Job] said, 'Blessed be the name of the Lord,'
don't mean that he's right. When he said, 'Blessed be
the name,' he was just being religious." (TBN, Nov.,
1990).

Juanita Bynum:

"You need to send a thousand dollars. If you can’t
send a thousand, send five hundred...if all you have
is a nickel, wrap it in tissue and put it in an
envelope. If all you have is your clothes, send
them." (TBN, Fall Praise-A-Thon, November 8, 2003)

"If all you have is $79.36, I double-dare you to empty
your bank account. Close your account." (TBN, Fall
Praise-A-Thon, November 8, 2003)

"If you want the power, you have to sow the seed."
(TBN, Fall Praise-A-Thon, November 8, 2003)

Bishop Neil Ellis

He will pastor a church “That has to be, has to be,
poverty free”. This “has to happen”. He added..
Because of the ‘anointing’, (His Emphasis).
“I am not supposed to be pastoring poor people”. (He
did add that God will send poor people to him but only
so they get a release from poverty).

Bishop Harold and Brenda Ray

Our goal is as simple as it is strategic: To create
wealth! And empower our people to steward that wealth
for the purposes of the kingdom, the strengthening of
their communities and for the economic well being of
their children's children! (Emphasis in red on their
official web site)

Fred Price

You can talk about me all you want while I'm driving
by in my Rolls Royce that's paid for, and I got the
pink slip on it. Talk all you want. Bad mouth all you
want. Don't hurt me in the least. Doesn't bother me.
It's a whole lot easier to be persecuted when I'm
riding in my car and I got the pink slip than it is
when I'm riding in a car and owe my soul to the
company store. Fred Price. (Ever Increasing Faith
program, TBN, March 29, 1992.)

“Yeah, God has pleasure in the prosperity. So he must
have displeasure in the poverty. So if he does, then
poverty couldn't be from God. Yeah, but Brother Price,
but God allows it. God lets it happen. You're right,
he does. He does, because you do. He can't do anything
about it” (Ever Increasing Faith 11/16/90).

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