The Immoral Minority 

By Doug Krieger

November 7, 2004

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse—IT DID!  The infamous and disgusting antics of one, Paul Cain, of “Apostles and Prophets” fame (considered as the “founding father” of this usurping phenomenon over the people of God) has been “caught” in a homosexual affair and has NOT responded to any entreaty to do otherwise.  Local brethren attempted (so we read) to dissuade Bro. Cain to repent of his behavior, but the “prophet” deferred—alas! HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN.  No biggie—the Local brethren have purchased Jim Bakker’s old Heritage USA—you know, the old Christian Disneyland where brother Swaggart, and then brother Jerry Falwell, contested over until Falwell slid down a water slide on a dare (along with his three-piece suit, no less)—so excited was he that the money came in! 

Jackie Alnor of “The Sentinel” and Michael Clark and George Davis of “A Wilderness Voice” – spell out the putrid details of not only the “Way of Cain” but the “Way of Paul” (i.e., Paul Crouch).  My coming article on MAKE NOT MY FATHER’S HOUSE A HOUSE OF MERCHANDISE has been finished for a while—but, again, ALAS! The moral carnage worsens.  Now, Paul Crouch—as many of you know—has been accused of a similar homosexual liaison.  However, the kicker here is that Bro. Paul put up nearly a half-million dollars in HUSH MONEY to silence his accuser!  Therein lies the rub.  So the guy figured out how to extort coin and went for an additional $10 million—sure, it’s extortion, but why in the world would Bro. Paul pay out the initial $425K to begin with? 

According to Stephen Strang, founder and publisher of Charisma Magazine in his November 2004 editorial, Crouch should be given the benefit of the doubt.  In other words:  Not guilty until proven innocent.  Hello!  What’s up with the initial $425K?  Strang cites the LA Times articles on Crouch’s tryst—but he OMITS the glaringly overt charges concerning the monster financial empire that rivals the 1,500-yr. Vatican treasury (please see my upcoming article on MAKE NOT MY FATHER’S HOUSE A HOUSE OF MERCHANDISE).  By the way—I’m not exaggerating. 

Then the rumor came out that the Crouches weren’t going to hold their annual Jerry Lewis-style Telethon—yeah—lo and behold, “We’re back!”  Thanks to the watchful eye of our Barbara Kirchhoff in St. Louis—we discovered that the rumors of TBN’s telethon demise were greatly exaggerated (reruns still count).  Now, Bro. Strang’s comments are commendable—but I cannot believe they are not somewhat disingenuous.  As “deep calleth unto deep” – even so do the moving of the muddy waters of mammon call unto themselves (don’t drown in the truth here).  O.K., Stephen—if Christian Ministries must hold to the “highest standards of righteousness among its leadership” – then, isn’t this HUSH MONEY proof that someone “out there” has a lot in common with the “O’Reilly Factor” payoff—at least Bill went public with his payoff before it was shouted from the rooftops?  Ah, the price of being rich and increased with goods! 

Do you think I’m pleased that the secular press continues to hang out our dirty laundry?  Go figure.  Sister Kate—our “eyes and ears” in Southern California, sent us a super analysis found in Dene’s last blog (“Theological Panic”) which takes an editorial from Robert Parham’s own Theological Panic Underlies Election Rhetoric and suggests that evangelicals are fending off the “secularists” at the ballot box because of their own moral depravity—i.e., “Me thinkest that thou protestest too much over the matter!” 

Question:  Don’t you have anything nice to say and something that will edify the Church?  Yes, I do—here it is:  “Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many . . . for false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect . . . therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Matthew 24:14, 24, 44)!