Barry Lynn’s Manifesto Against Bill Keller Over Mitt Romney Here

http://blog.thehill.com/2007/06/03/nonprofit-violates-tax-law-calls-romney-satan/

This is destined to fail, because the IRS would have an extremely hard time justifying eliminating the tax – exempt status of a Florida televangelist while not doing the same for, say, the NAACP Voter Fund, the Rainbow/Push Coalition, or any of a number of other left – liberal nonprofit partisan political organizations that Rev. Barry Lynn – a United Church of Christ minister – never says or does anything about (except on the minimal token basis required to keep the claim that his agenda is not itself political, ideological, or religious) because they agree with his personal political agenda and views (pro – abortion, etc.). All you have to do is go to his main page http://www.au.org/site/PageServer and you see the late Falwell, Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, and the typical right wing bugbears. I should point out that as a  ”fundamentalist” (though I hate the label) Christian, I am 100% apolitical and as such am no friend of the religious right or the conservative movement. But it is interesting that you can even do a search of their archives and not see any evidence of the litigation strategy against the partisan political activity of any major (or minor) liberal group or person – including liberal clergy and religious groups – that they frequently engage in against the religious right.

Now of course, the satanic anti – Christ agenda of Americans United For The Separation of Church and State as borne out by their selective choice in filing complaints (as is their right by the way) will probably not make for a valid argument in defense of Live Prayer, especially since the very same anti – Christ government that in the past sanctioned slavery and Jim Crow and today allows the murder of the unborn, grinds the poor with its unjust criminal justice and educational systems (and allows the poor to bear the brunt of corporate pollution while exploiting them with lotteries and other forms of gambling “for education”), refuses to defend our borders, will not protect its children from pornography or child predators, and fights illegal undeclared wars to appease global corporate and political interests will be deciding this case. Do you honestly feel that state, currently run by the Bush administration, will deal justice according to this issue or any other? I will say this: if they do, it will either be by virtue of God intervening on behalf of righteousness, or the state’s feeling that by suffering Live Prayer in this case they will be able to set a precedent that will allow them to inflict an even bigger evil on the true church who hold, promote, and defend the true gospel of Jesus Christ in the future. Regardless of the outcome of this case, I say that the church should reject and oppose the state and support thereof at every turn. No church should take faith – based funds or any other form of aid, and I also look forward to the day where churches will reach the point where they are able to DECLINE TAX EXEMPT STATUS so the state will not be able to regulate its actions in any way, shape, or form. A great many churches and ministries have the financial means to reject state regulation in this manner, but they refuse. Why? The root of all evil, which is the love of money. A bigger issue: a great many of these churches LOVE the lack of financial accountability and oversight that comes from running a “nonprofit organization.” The LAST THING that they would want is to be required to make public quarterly statements on A) how much money they are actually taking in and B) where the money, especially that which is SUPPOSED to go to outreach ministries and programs to help the poor, are really going. One of the reasons why I have no problem supporting Bill Keller and so prominently recommend his ministry on my weblog is because his ministry is 100% transparent. As a matter of fact, you can email him at bkeller@liveprayer.com and ask him to send you his full financial records for the last several years, including his own salary. Compare that to, say, KENNETH COPELAND, who when asked by the family of a woman who had given his “ministry” large sums of money in the belief that if she just gave Copeland enough money God would heal her cancer said in this link: rickross.com/reference/tv_preachers/tv_preachers45.html  “Meanwhile, Parker’s husband said Bonnie died believing she hadn’t given enough money to Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. Parker and Beach said they asked the Copelands for an accounting of Bonnie’s contributions. “I can’t believe, I can’t comprehend them going on vacation in a jet that my mom paid for with her life,” Beach said. “I can’t imagine that.” The Copeland ministry declined requests for an interview, and pointed to an accounting firm’s declaration that all jet travel complies with federal tax laws. A request to see their annual tax filings and list of Board of Directors was also denied. The reason they cited for the denial was that as a church they are not required to disclose that information. “So, why is Barry Lynn going after these folks and not Kenneth Copeland? It probably shows that they are really working on the same side and serving the same master. Actually, that is not true at all; that was an example of a completely dishonest ad hominem attack that I knew was false when I made it. The real reason why Barry Lynn has never to my knowledge gone after Copeland is because he has never had a need to; Copeland would build his little corrupt fiefdom based on money and power from the faithful rather than get out there in the real world and fight the Lord’s battles. Were Copeland to take on Romney, it would just be one deceiver against another, just like your typical Presidential or other political race. Instead, Copeland, Creflo Dollar, and similar are going around claiming that “we are gods” JUST LIKE THE MORMONS. Now I do not agree with everything that Bill Keller says and does, and that is why it grieves me that sometimes people like these good people whose blog I am now linking to confuse this weblog for being his, or me for being affiliated or associated with him in any way, because I have TONS of things on here that Keller most certainly would not want attributed to him because they are my own opinions that diverge from his. But the bottom line is that Keller and I are on the same side because we serve the same master. Can the same be said about you? Do you serve the One True God? Are you ready to stand before Him on judgment day? If not, I urge you to complete this process healthelandgeneraldocuments.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/the-three-step-salvation-plan/ so that you will be, and that if you are following some false preacher or movement, or even a ministry that is not 100% transparent, please come out of it so that you can retain that which you already have. Many are called, but few shall be chosen. It is in your Bible, people, and it is there for a reason, because it applies to you, me, and everyone else who ever was born and ever will be.