The brainwashed segment of the Christian community that honestly thought that they could purchase a blessing from God is starting to wake up. So many Christians world wide have been hoodwinked, brainwashed and bamboozled into believing that if they send in a large enough seed, tithe beyond the 10%, rub on a prayer cloth, give the pastor their mortgage or rent check…basically rub on the belly of the beast, that a blessing would miraculously rain down.

You will see most of the big ministers doing that. Watch TBN and you will see a long line of clownish pimps in the pulpit tricking gullible people, mostly women, into believing that they can purchase their way into prosperity and blessings. It’s really sad. But many are waking up. Check this out:

The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor’s living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches.

And so the 53-year-old accountant from the Tampa, Fla., area pledged $500 a year to Joyce Meyer, the evangelist whose frank talk about recovering from childhood sexual abuse was so inspirational. She wrote checks to flamboyant faith healer Benny Hinn and a local preacher-made-good, Paula White.

Only the blessings didn’t come. Fleenor ended up borrowing money from friends and payday loan companies just to buy groceries. At first she believed the explanation given on television: Her faith wasn’t strong enough.

“I wanted to believe God wanted to do something great with me like he was doing with them,” she said. “I’m angry and bitter about it. Right now, I don’t watch anyone on TV hardly.”

Pause there. Now this is pitiful. This woman was basically lulled into sending huge amounts of money to multi-millionaires like Joyce Myer who can afford to sit on $23,000 toilet seats.

The question is, how do people like Joyce Myer sleep at night? That would really bother me to know that women are not paying bills because they are sending me money in the hope of purchasing a blessing!

And sadly, whenever these panhandling pimps and crooks are questioned, they simply rid themselves of those who can keep them in check:

The checks and balances central to Christian denominations are largely lacking in prosperity churches. One of the pastors in the Grassley probe, Bishop Eddie Long of suburban Atlanta, has written that God told him to get rid of the “ungodly governmental structure” of a deacon board.

Some ministers hold up their own wealth as evidence that the teaching works. Atlanta-area pastor Creflo Dollar, who is fighting Grassley’s inquiry, owns a Rolls Royce and multimillion-dollar homes and travels in a church-owned Learjet.

In a letter to Grassley, Dollar’s attorney calls the prosperity gospel a “deeply held religious belief” grounded in Scripture and therefore a protected religious freedom. Grassley has said his probe is not about theology.

But even some prosperity gospel critics — like the Rev. Adam Hamilton of 15,000-member United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in suburban Kansas City, Mo. — say that the investigation is entering a minefield.

“How do you determine how much money a minister like this is able to make when the basic theology is that wealth is OK?” said Hamilton, an Oral Roberts graduate who later left the charismatic movement. “That gets into theological questions.”

There is evidence of change. Joyce Meyer Ministries, for one, enacted financial reforms in recent years, including making audited financial statements public.

Meyer, who has promised to cooperate fully with Grassley, issued a statement emphasizing that a prosperity gospel “that solely equates blessing with financial gain is out of balance and could damage a person’s walk with God.”

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Hat tip to Evangelist ET for this story lead