Van Impe Banned from TBN
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Tue Jun 28, 2011 at 12:21:05 PM EST
     Futurist preacher Jack Van Impe, who has amassed a fortune predicting the end of times, has just been censored by TBN.  The network kicked out Van Impe after decades of programming devoted to Jack's hard right assessments of American history sitting along side his approving wife.  This time Van Impe went too far when he accused pastor legends Robert Schuller and Rick Warren of seeking to blend the Christian  and Muslim faiths together.
   In   what might be compared to Fox Network doing away with Glenn Beck, Trinity Broadcast Network has now ousted Van Impe.  As comedians have noted, if you are too far to the right for the Fox Network...you are way out there.  The same can be said for TBN and Van Impe.  If you are too far out for TBN, then you must be out there!
     TBN has put up with Van Impe's insinuations that the nation's President is the Anti-Christ.  Hal Lindsey has on more than one occasion suggested such.  Lindsey drew some concerns from TBN by his harping on Muslims.  Lindsey has openly claimed on the network that President Obama wants to secretly turn the nation into a Muslim country.  Jack just published a book with DVDs on who are the false prophets in America.  Just about anyone who uses contemporary music or doesn't wear a tie on Sunday morning is suspect.
     Paul Crouch, head of TBN has a track record of an excessively luxurious  lifestyle.    Crouch has used programming to promote the War in Iraq and President George W. Bush.  To critics of billionaire preacher Ken Copeland, Crouch said he didn't want to even look at their "ugly face."  The network has often been a mouthpiece for far right conspiracy theories and positions.
     In 1997 Crouch provided a peculiar prayer on the airways.  In a live broadcast he prayed, "God, we proclaim death to anything or anyone that will lift a hand against this network and this ministry that belongs to you, God."
     In a look who's calling the kettle pot story, TBN has pulled the plug on Van Impe.  Not to be discouraged, Van Impe is soliciting funds to pay for invitations on other channels to provide his information.



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Just got my copy of Power of Prophecy from Texe Marrs.  He is promoting a book, claiming of all things, Jon Hagee is involved in the evil world conspiracy.

by wilkyjr on Tue Jun 28, 2011 at 02:09:40 PM EST
Here these televangelists are supposed to be introducing people to Jesus, and they spend more time squabbling among themselves.

by khughes1963 on Tue Jun 28, 2011 at 09:30:32 PM EST
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but they turn people off to Christianity (and religion in general) as well.

A significant number of atheists I've met became atheist because of the actions and hypocrisy of the televangelists, combined with the abuse they saw/experienced from the local church they attended when they were younger.

I find them so offensive and triggering that I can't watch or listen to them.

by ArchaeoBob on Wed Jun 29, 2011 at 09:04:03 AM EST
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It is impossible for me to tune in, it's easier to tune them out!

by khughes1963 on Wed Jun 29, 2011 at 12:50:28 PM EST
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"Obama wants to secretly turn the nation into a Muslim country"

How do you "secretly" change a country into something totally different from what it is? To change the dominant religion of the US, you would have to do an awful lot of proselytizing - or import an awful lot of folks, and right now, most of the immigrants appear to be Catholic. (I realize that's almost as bad as Muslims to these folks.)

Somehow, I don't think all the things that Obama is accused of "secretly" doing would stay a secret long, if he were actually doing them. Of course, some of the NAR are doing a fair job of "secretly" transforming the US into a theocracy. Turn on the floodlights and fire up the bullhorns! They are a much bigger threat to our way of life than the small minority of Muslims that are here.

by phatkhat on Tue Jun 28, 2011 at 04:11:35 PM EST

 The election of Obama and 9/11 both fueled the Religious Right.

by wilkyjr on Wed Jun 29, 2011 at 08:26:07 AM EST

Van Impe claims in a letter Warren does not accept the divinity of Christ....where he gets such crazy notions is probably the same place he gets his prophecy.

by wilkyjr on Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 08:30:17 AM EST
My impression is that Warren accepts just about any negotiable instrument that he can put in his bank account. Several months ago I attended three sessions of one of his video lectures, to get a first-hand view of the stuff he is marketing. What I saw was pretty much cotton-candy theology ~ all air and sugar, nothing nourishing. But also (in an admittedly small sample) nothing that I could detect as specifically Dominionist or homophobic.

What really got me was his egregious error on the value of a denarius. He tried to make a point by saying that it was a huge amount; I forget now whether it was a month's wages or a year's wages. But it was not. It is commonly understood to have been the standard daily wage for a field laborer. I have no respect for someone who distorts basic facts in order to make a point.

If Van Impe is after him, is that like the pot calling the kettle black?

by MLouise on Thu Jun 30, 2011 at 09:04:59 AM EST
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The denarius was taught as being a day's wages for ordinary people in the Assemblies back years ago, and I've heard that in the Episcopal church since then.  (Said teaching tied to increases in prices for common items and used to push "last days" and so on in the Assemblies.)

I never thought to question it until now... or that it may have been a day-laborer's wages (kind of a minimum wage thing).

It would be worth looking up sometime... from authoritative sources rather than religious.

by ArchaeoBob on Fri Jul 01, 2011 at 01:10:47 PM EST
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I was disappointed that Warren interviewed Obama as a type- of religious test for office.  However, Warren has the respect of just about the entire Christian community.  He is moving toward Billy Graham/like status.  
     He preaches in shorts and tries to make the church appealing to the counter culture of California.  My point is on the Van Impe thing is what he accuses Warren of.  If Warren were any of the things Jack claims we all would have heard about it decades ago.  His best selling book has motivated churches across the nation.  
     TBN gave Van Impe a free pass on his allegations against Obama.  He was called on the carpet for his charges against Warren and Schuller.

by wilkyjr on Fri Jul 01, 2011 at 08:36:42 AM EST

That Rick Warren would or could set himself up as "king-maker" in the Obama interview process is an act of hubris par excellence. But Warren's syncretism is/was with chrtistian-right foci, not Islam.  By the back door, this may be his only benefit to himself and us, since "Islamophobia" is run amok almost everywhere one looks since Obama was elected.  I am sure some cable channel will make space for Van Impe, not unlike Don Imus not being out of work for long after his anti-feminine tirade against the Rutgers girls. It will be word of mouth advertising rather than TV-Guide type listing that, neverthelessl, gets him moving again, and he will damn all of us early-on in that format.

Now that even Fox has defrocked Glenn Beck, his own Oprah-like channel investment  will be a model for Van Impe to move that way too. TBN's strange mix of far-right while claiming respectability it did NOT have is an interesting case for study, not of interest itself otherwise.

I read with amusement Schuller's Cathedral's bankruptcy in the newspaper while, even so, having difficulty uttering a reference to him in the same sentence as Warren, who is too much of a shylock for decency in my understanding. Yes, all of these doings are a detriment to religion in general, not just to xnity.

by achbird65 on Mon Jul 04, 2011 at 12:43:59 PM EST


Well van impe has been predicting the future and also saying the things going to happen. As per the term paper writing service blogs things are going back to be normal from the worldly life. His prayers are so blessing to earth from god.

by bernard on Sun May 29, 2016 at 03:26:14 AM EST


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