*** wi (World Without War) p. 25 par. 7 Who Will Lead the Nations to Peace? ***
The scandals among Christendom’s clergy are notorious. Immoral televangelists who rake in millions of dollars and live like kings.
*** g88 3/22 p. 7 Do Today’s Religions Feed or Fleece the Flock? ***
On one of ABC’s Nightline series of programs on the televangelists, ABC correspondent Marshall Frady said: “All the trappings of modern television evangelism seem a long way from the original simplicity of that intense young Galilean mystic without property, without any boards of directors, who just trudged about a dusty corner of the earth talking, two thousand years ago.”
*** w92 12/1 p. 26 Not Peddlers of God’s Word ***
“WE WERE selling our ministry for money.” Those are the words of a former “telephone prayer minister” interviewed in an investigative report of American television evangelists late in 1991.
This program focused on three televangelistic ministries in the United States. It disclosed that people are fleeced of tens of millions of dollars every year by just these three. One “ministry” was described as a “state-of-the-art factory for donations.”