Benny boy

One of the major blows against my faith in the church came an evening when I was surfing the internets. I came across some allegations against a bloke called Benny Hinn.

I was never a big fan of televangelists so I had mostly ignored them. But Benny Hinn was one of those names you heard every know and then, and his book “Good morning holy spirit” was referenced at times. I didn’t know that much about him, but he wasn’t my cup of tea. It wasn’t my style.

The allegations against him were outrageous. Too bad to be true. However, I kept on reading and it seemed to be true. After a while I got my hands on some audio clips (this was a few years pre-Youtube, mind you) and video and DVD recordings of some TV shows investigating Hinn. It was obvious to me that he’s a crook and a liar.

I got a bit carried away back then. It wasn’t so much due to a Hinn being a crook. It’s easy to find crooks in the history of christianity. What troubled me was that I hadn’t heard anything about this in the church. If the church holds him in such a high esteem, what other crooks are running free inside the church?

Also, if that whole circus is manipulation, social conditioning and mass hysteria, how much of the rest of the curchianity is real, when the theology, methods and behavior are very similar?

Basically, Benny Hinn got me questioning a lot of churchianity.