I think a lot of them are hucksters. The Prosperity Gospel is simply factual not accurate. If everyone who earnestly prayed to be wealthy and earnestly believed in faith that God could make them wealthy, became wealthy, we would have a lot more rich people in the world today.
But that's a lot of what the televised preachers on American television focus on- the so-called prosperity gospel. Then of course there's always some twist about "sowing a seed" in the form of a contribution to the preacher's ministry, which pays him or her a very nice salary, typically, and it being claimed that the money will be returned a thousand times to the person who sends it in, by God, through other means. And if it doesn't work the first time, the advice given is to have more faith and send more money. Just plain and simple not something that's reality-based.
Well, maybe I shouldn't say it doesn't work. It does work for the preachers- who are the ones getting mailed all that seed money.
Honestly, I don't think there is anything Christian about some of these people.
Christ said it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
The prosperity gospel was not Jesus' Gospel, it cons vulnerable people out of money they need to get by, and it is generally just a rotten thing to perpetuate.
That is of course not every TV preacher. But it's a lot of them.
I also find that many of them are a bit bombastic and conservative for my tastes. I feel like asking them to please stop yelling and to please cut down on their use of Republican Party talking points.
But mostly I feel like asking them to give people back the money they've stolen from them.
Honestly, I think if not for the first amendment guaranteeing freedom of religion in the United States, a lot of these people would be in jail right now. If people tried this in any way not tied to religious belief, they would be prosecuted.
I literally I think at one point blocked the channels these people were on from my television service at one point using, essentially, parental controls. Some people block MTV or Cinemax, I block the Prosperity Preacher channels and FOX News.
