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...Joyce Meyer and Creflo Dollar. None of these has had trouble with the law, although in 2006, after years of fencing, Joyce Meyer Ministries came to agreement with local authorities to pay 52% taxes on parts of its headquarters, which the county had maintained were a business. Nonetheless, Hank Hanegraaff, a non-Pentecostal evangelical broadcaster who calls himself the Bible Answer Man, expresses concern "about people out there emptying out their bank accounts so their daughter with leukemia can be healed." He recently read on the air a editorial by Grady denouncing "Celebrity Christianity," which described the case...
...Hanegraaff, known as the Bible Answer Man, counters that the Left Behind books are part of a trend toward sensationalism and "script torture" of the Bible. "There is a lot of hysteria because of the Left Behind books," he says. Tyndale decided to offer the alternate viewpoint after talking to biblical scholars. "We think debate is healthy in the church and will help both series," says publisher Ron Beers. The Last Disciple, one of three books planned by Hanegraaff and his co-author, Sigmund Brouwer, has sold 50,000 copies in six weeks (vs. 85,000 for Left Behind...
...Christian publisher, Tyndale House, launched a rival series directly challenging the premise that born-again Christians will be "raptured" into heaven while those "left behind" face the anti-Christ during the Apocalypse. LaHaye was not amused when Tyndale asked him to debate his new competition, Christian-radio host Hank Hanegraaff, as a promotion. Hanegraaff's novel, The Last Disciple, argues that the Book of Revelation describes the persecution of 1st century Christians under Nero, not some future tribulation of nonbelievers. "A lot of Christians have been hoodwinked into this amillennial viewpoint," says LaHaye. "I'm not going to promote that...
...your story "The Faithful Among Us," you included a statement by Hank Hanegraaff to the effect that cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, known as Do and Ti, instituted measures such as lack of sleep, repetitive chanting and duties that contributed to subtle thought control. This statement was followed by a quote from me, a member of the cult until 1994: "Do and Ti had repeated things for so long...There was frustration. We had even waited for a craft to pick us up on several dates, and it didn't happen. Ti and Do both...
...everyone practiced disciplines that had them preparing for sudden visitations by spacecraft, Ti and Do impressed the idea of a great enterprise upon them. "People lead mediocre lives, and so these leaders exploited expectations of joining an elite," says Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute. The physical deprivations--lack of sleep, excessive work, repetitive chanting and duties--all contributed to subtle thought control...
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