Thursday, October 08, 2009

Sometimes we do the right thing...

I was really glad to read today that Benny Hinn, a supposedly Christian evangelist has been refused entry to the UK. Benny runs a little firm in Texas that claims to preach the gospel and heal people of things that modern medicine has been unable to do, tricky little things like AIDS, blindness and cancer among others.



Conservative estimates put his yearly income at roughly $120-200 million, he lives in an $8 million beach front house and flies around in a personal Gulfstream jet, he famously once predicted that the world would end in 1995 and he also foretold that Fidel Castro would die during the 1990s. Hinn has also taught that Adam (the Biblical one) flew to the moon. He has said that the Christian Trinity is actually God in nine persons, not three, because the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are each comprised of trinities, er OK Benny?

Mr Hinn has visited us before without any problem but the Home Office has changed the rules for ministers of religion. He fell foul of tier five of the new points-based system for all visitors to Britain, which came into effect last November. One of the aims of the new rules was to combat extremism and prevent teachers of religious hate entering the country.

So, hurrah for UK Border control, the system appears to work; it just leaves us with one question, why do people still fall for this crap?

3 comments:

Chairman Bill said...

ht about the nine. I heard it on Monty Pythion's Life of Brian!

"And he shall bear a nine-bladed sword. Nine-bladed. Not two, or five or seven, but nine, which he shall wield on all wretched sinners and that includes you sir, and the horns shall be on the head ..."

Chairman Bill said...

That was meant to read: "He was right about the nine..."

Steve Borthwick said...

CB, I heard that to, must be true :)