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cleanhippie

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Sat Mar 17, 2012, 11:03 AM Mar 2012

Christians Bilking Christians

Just a few years ago, during the height of the recession, his organization froze wages, stopped contributing to employees' 401(k) retirement accounts, and turned down the thermostat at its new headquarters during the winter, all in attempts to save money. However, at the same time all this belt tightening was going on he was breaking ground on a new 4 million-dollar home on lakefront property in South Carolina, and raking in a record amount of contributions to his ministry.

Welcome to the world of the "prosperity gospel," where the only people that we know for sure are prospering are the ministers running the show.

Unlike the morally compromised televangelist Jimmy Swaggart who favored prostitute, and Ted Haggard, the former head of the National Association of Evangelicals and founder and pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who resigned those posts after revelations of his sex and drugs scandal came to light, David Cerullo has not been enveloped by such scandals.

David Cerullo, the son of evangelist Morris Cerullo and the CEO of Inspiration Networks (INSP) -- a prominent Christian evangelical organization - is, however, under fire over revelations that he is being grossly overpaid; pocketing a multimillion-dollar salary.

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13383
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