Comments on: benny hinn

By: Sharolyn

Sharolyn — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:04:14 +0000

Chad, I remember years ago on tour when you said you wanted to go on the Benny Hinn stage and NOT fall. Has this ever happened (someone not falling)? Surely it has, right? What then?

And whose power is causing these people to fall? (This is not rhetorical.)

By: Morphea

Morphea — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:04:51 +0000

I poked around on YouTube a bit and Dateline doesn’t like him much at all. Or his wife.

Cerise

By: aly hawkins

aly hawkins — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:31:55 +0000

At housechurch the other night, we were laughing about the idea of some kind of hazing for people who want to join up. We thought it would be funny if we all wore matching white track suits and did “butterfly kisses” as a secret handshake and then waited to see how long it took for the newbies to adapt and adopt. We laughed even harder when someone said, “I think this is how cults are born.” And then we mixed up some Mountainberry Punch.

By: Corey Witt

Corey Witt — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:05:15 +0000

Chad’s right on. It’s “belonging”, at its best (or worst?). I believe it starts with a circle of common friends (like this blog), travels through Benny Hinn, and ends with matching Nike’s and poison Kool-Aid.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:45:32 +0000

What’s the deal?

I think we all want to be a part of something. Anything. It’s ingrained.

By: Morphea

Morphea — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:20:41 +0000

Aw, man. That is so COOL. I know most people (myself included) regard this with a mixture of amusement and maybe pity and/or revulsion, but seriously, the sheer operatic, bombastic quality of the arm-waving and the masses struck down and the music…it all fits. I don’t want to get too crazed here, but really, isn’t this whole phenomenon amazing? You’ve got this charismatic, riveting preacher who channels so much spiritual power that the people he targets (or whatever. That god targets.) either sail to the floor like a wind just swept over them or drop like a stone when god kicks their feet out from under them. Amazing. Can you imagine the sensation of being so filled with spiritual ecstasy that you just suspend your defenses and let gravity take you? I can’t stop watching it.

So…what’s the deal with this sort of thing?

Cerise

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:13:13 +0000

You forgot the jews. That giant minora was friggen tight.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:10:51 +0000

well, Rosy attends regularly. Because they pay him to play the drums.

Yes kids, a typical Rosy weekend consists of playing Friday night for the Orange County Gay Men’s Choir, Saturday night at a Benny Hinn event, and Sunday night at the Crystal Cathedral. if that won’t make you schizophrenic, nothing will.

By: june

june — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:55:46 +0000

Who are all those people attending? I must live a sheltered life…I’m trying to think of a single acquaintance who I can imagine going to such a thing. It’s all so very parallel universey.

By: aly hawkins

aly hawkins — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:02:20 +0000

No. ‘Cause ninjas are cool.

By: Corey Witt

Corey Witt — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:33:03 +0000

Nolie asked me if he was some kinda “ninja preacher”. Yes, boy. That’s exactly what he is.