Green Prosperity Handkerchief
I like looking up the searches that drive people to this blog. Lately, there's been a Google run on the words "green prosperity handkerchief" (or hanky), which lead to this post. I assume some of you are just curious about the obviously scurrilous claim that you can become rich through faith, as I was, and wondered if anyone else had noticed how odd this man's pitch is. This post is for those folks who are actually hoping to give Don some of your hard-earned money.
Listen, you retards: Don Stewart is lying to you. Never in 2,000 years of Christian teaching has anyone suggested that Jesus intended for you to become rich, or that the path to doing so was to send money to preachers. Never, until people like Don Stewart appeared. You are being taken for a ride by a dirty little man, leader of a new community of Get-Rich-Quick-Through-God scammers enriching themselves (not their churches) at your expense.
Read through this article. The guy who writes it, and his organization, is a little wacky, but the facts around Don Stewart are the same whether written by me, your pastor, or an eccentric old guy from Wichita. Don Stewart robs people. He's been doing it for decades, and he's taught other false preachers to do it, as well.
Think about everything you know about your faith, about God, about the bible, about Christianity. What does any of that have to do with enriching yourself or others? Nothing - it doesn't. It's about enriching your heart and your soul, nothing less, nothing more.
If you're falling for this because you've hit hard times and will turn wherever you can in desperation, look somewhere else, because Don Stewart and his Green Prosperity Handkerchief aren't going to help you - they're not on your side. Approach your church directly and ask for the help you need. Communities of faith have always pitched in to help their less-fortunate brothers and sisters, and they don't need televangelist shamans to do it for them today. If you're seriously down on your luck and don't know where to turn, email me with the details (disabled, just plain poor, everything stolen, can't get work, whatever...) and I'll find out where you need to go to get what you need. I will not divulge details on the blog (although hate mails will be posted toot friggin' suite). Help is given for helps' sake.
Now, if you're falling for this because you're gullible and have too much cash on your hands, or you really think Don Stewart has some good use for your money that will also bring you some increased financial stability, please stop doing this. Are you kidding me? There are dozens of legitimate places to put your money where it will go to people who need it - and that, my friends, is the Lord's work. Giving money to Don with the hopes of getting something back is the exact opposite of what a Christian, even a well-meaning one, should do. Get your act together and show respect to your faith. Over the next couple days, I'll post some charities and even faith-based organizations that could actually use your money and will put it to use helping people who really need it. I urge you to take advantage of my research.
Come to think of it: If you're looking for a way to help someone with your money, email me and I'll hook you up with some of the poor souls who email me for help. This way, you can help someone directly. Won't that be better? Think of the reward in Heaven when you help people in this way, rather than sending cash off to some TV preacher in hopes of financial reward.
Listen, you retards: Don Stewart is lying to you. Never in 2,000 years of Christian teaching has anyone suggested that Jesus intended for you to become rich, or that the path to doing so was to send money to preachers. Never, until people like Don Stewart appeared. You are being taken for a ride by a dirty little man, leader of a new community of Get-Rich-Quick-Through-God scammers enriching themselves (not their churches) at your expense.
Read through this article. The guy who writes it, and his organization, is a little wacky, but the facts around Don Stewart are the same whether written by me, your pastor, or an eccentric old guy from Wichita. Don Stewart robs people. He's been doing it for decades, and he's taught other false preachers to do it, as well.
Think about everything you know about your faith, about God, about the bible, about Christianity. What does any of that have to do with enriching yourself or others? Nothing - it doesn't. It's about enriching your heart and your soul, nothing less, nothing more.
If you're falling for this because you've hit hard times and will turn wherever you can in desperation, look somewhere else, because Don Stewart and his Green Prosperity Handkerchief aren't going to help you - they're not on your side. Approach your church directly and ask for the help you need. Communities of faith have always pitched in to help their less-fortunate brothers and sisters, and they don't need televangelist shamans to do it for them today. If you're seriously down on your luck and don't know where to turn, email me with the details (disabled, just plain poor, everything stolen, can't get work, whatever...) and I'll find out where you need to go to get what you need. I will not divulge details on the blog (although hate mails will be posted toot friggin' suite). Help is given for helps' sake.
Now, if you're falling for this because you're gullible and have too much cash on your hands, or you really think Don Stewart has some good use for your money that will also bring you some increased financial stability, please stop doing this. Are you kidding me? There are dozens of legitimate places to put your money where it will go to people who need it - and that, my friends, is the Lord's work. Giving money to Don with the hopes of getting something back is the exact opposite of what a Christian, even a well-meaning one, should do. Get your act together and show respect to your faith. Over the next couple days, I'll post some charities and even faith-based organizations that could actually use your money and will put it to use helping people who really need it. I urge you to take advantage of my research.
Come to think of it: If you're looking for a way to help someone with your money, email me and I'll hook you up with some of the poor souls who email me for help. This way, you can help someone directly. Won't that be better? Think of the reward in Heaven when you help people in this way, rather than sending cash off to some TV preacher in hopes of financial reward.
Labels: Don Stewart, Green Prosperity Handkerchief
posted by switzerblog at
5:39 PM
2 Comments:
The Greedy Green Handkerchief is more like it. I was appauled when I saw how Gods word of prosperity was twisted. To me it seems more like a form of idol worship. God hears our prayers and knows our circumstances. We do not need to have a green handkerchief for him to anwser our prayer. My prayer (Without the Greedy Green Handkerchief)is that God will touch the hearts of those who believe that a peice of cloth will determine the outcome of your prayer.He is forever faithful and just.
The poor people that put their hope in this... Stewart's scam only reinforces to the lost that what they hunger for is material. True prosperity is in the life with your King; joy is in caring for others, yourself and His earth; peace is in the trust that we are on our God's side, that He does and will prevail. All this can be found without material things - money is nothing compared to this. I pray the cunning Stewart turns from his evil ways of misleading the lost in the name of our God.
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