Televangelist Paul Crouch, founder of TBN, dies at 79
Source: LA Times
By Elaine Woo
Paul Crouch, a pioneering televangelist who founded Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world’s largest Christian TV network, died today, according to the network's website. He was 79.
The church reported in October that Crouch had fallen ill and was taken to a Dallas-area hospital while on a visit to a TBN facility in Colleyville, Texas. He had "heart and related health issues," the church said, and he was later returned to California for continued treatment.
The son of a Missouri missionary, Crouch moved to California in the early 1960s to manage the movie and television unit of the Assemblies of God. A decade later, after receiving what he believed was a message from God, he began to buy television stations, cable channels and satellites and developed enough Christian programming to sustain a 24-hour network.
By the mid-1980s, Orange County-based TBN was “the country’s most-watched religious network,” according to J. Gordon Melton and Jon R. Stone in their book “Prime-Time Religion: An Encyclopedia of Religious Broadcasting.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-televangelist-paul-crouch-who-founded-the-world-famous-trinity-broadcasting-network-dies-at-79-20131130,0,5660860.story
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Wow, that says it all. I like that! I can't wait to use the line. Think of all the possibilities. The idea of Pulpit Pimps. It could be a rock band. The King is dead, love ling the King! 
Mmmmmmm!!!!!
Is it just me but why do all these people always look like "a rat with a gold tooth'!!!!
What galls me is that even after these criminals have been exposed for the blood-suckers that they truly are, the network, their "ministry", continues on.
some years ago into these crooks. His end game was to strip their tax exempt status as I recall. Lots of talk, but it never got out of committee.
I am in the financial industry and have seen people taken to the cleaners by these word-of-faith monsters. Even happened in my own family briefly.
After burying my ancient mother this summer, when we began going thru her papers (she never threw away a thing in that house) we were heartbroken to discover that this 95 yr old woman, who had suffered from dementia for many years, had been taken in by those bastards at TBN.
Ever tried removing an address from their "pledge" drive mailing list? I even wasted a stamp, writing a long diatribe and sending it back inside their SAE, demanding that our old homestead never receive any of their garbage, EVER AGAIN! They never skipped a beat, and months later, that pink-haired freak stills appears in my dead mother's mailbox, regularly.
God doesn't talk to me. Ever. What did I do? 
The kids, Grandkids and (reportedly) ex-wife Janice (see pic below) can fight over the 13 mansions and the private jet and the rest of the spoils of the prosperity gospel.
Here's (ex)wife Janice:
And here's one of the Crouch's 13 mansions:
All from the grift of prosperity gospel. Give all you have and Jesus will reward you -- in heaven no doubt.
Horrible people!
Richard and Lindsay Roberts (of Oral Roberts/ORU "fame"
used to live about a mile from me. While Oral and his wife lived in a more modest mid-century modern house built in the early sixties, Richard and his wife built a huge, tacky, red brick mansion that was exceeded only by the tackiness of its interior.
Chandeliers hanging over a garden tub with water jets, a closet bigger than most people's living rooms, a kitchen big enough to serve as a television studio, and a bathroom with Hollywood mirrors and lighting.
I was glad to see the Roberts' shenanigans exposed. I think you're 100% correct that the Crouch family will now expose their dirty laundry for everyone to see. 13 houses--excessive is an understatement!
But tell us how you really feel.
plus the likes of Pat Robertson have done America a huge disservice over the years. In the long run, I would venture to say they are the largest single cause of the dumbing down of America. Since they started this massive scam, TBN, The Bakers, and The Christian Broadcasting network among others have bought the souls of millions and filled them with RW economic BS even before Reagan was president. They started the media mission of making gullible people stupid, fearful, and ecstatically dependent on their ideology of wealth and the false hope of the second coming of Christ with the fear of Armageddon and the salvation of the rapture and the thousand year reign of Christ on earth.... just to make their lucre.
It takes a lot of delusion to create an empire that could destroy a nation. I have no more honor for the likes of these people than I do the likes of Hitler.
May his followers find a good and decent person to take his place. 
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