Celebrity Worth- puts Billy Graham’s net worth at $25,000,000 making him among the richest fat cat religious persons in America- and mind you- this does NOT represent the MILLIONS of dollars in real estate which is owned by his Ministry- but given use to Billy Graham and his family…nice perks to be a Man of God!?
Some or many of the real estate assets of Billy and Franklin Graham, according to Forbes, are in fact owned by their religious organizations- that way- (this is the old flim flam trick) on paper- they look “less rich” than if they owned those properties outright- hence- a slight of hand, or shall we say or might we say- a scam? These properties are for the use of Billy and Franklin Graham- so…not bad ah. .. your company buys you a mansion in their name- you have exclusive use and you can, on paper, reduce your net wealth to not make it look SO obvious that you are swimming in millions of dollars of parishioners cash! Nice trick!! Another great source of income is WRITING books- oh my how art thou ingenious- so what you do as a Pastor, looking to be religious- but rich as heck (can’t use the word hell) you or a ghost writer writes a book about more religious hocus pocus and then- you advertise it to parishioners who feel pressure or obligation to buy it- NOW you’ve got legally made millions from book sales and don’t need to get messy with embezzlement. Another way to make millions out of your ah hmmm….”religious” books is that your ministry buys hundreds of thousands of them- making you millions once again- and then the Ministry gives these wonderful books for FREE to those who donate “love gifts” to your Ministry—you know, we call them “love gifts” we don’t call them donations or cash cause it sounds so dirty- and we are clean God fearing religious folk- so send in your “love gift” and get the Pastors GREAT new book for FREE!! (although the Pastor didn’t give them to the Ministry for free hahah, he made millions “selling” them to his Ministry haha- neat trick ah- makes you look clean and religious and smart for being able to write so many books!! Bill Graham wrote 33 books to date…and his Ministry owns a media and publishing empire to ensure sales, marketing and distribution- just a really neat way to make millions from the Word of GOD! (I thought a normal Pastor would donate those sales to help needy Christians??)
This is another reason, making money that is, why people like Billy Graham keep predicting the “end days” are here- because it mobilizes their minions to join their ranks and donate more cash- but in fact, Graham and others have it all wrong- the end days predicted in the Bible (Revelations) were about the end of the Roman Empire- not the earth, mankind or distant future end time.
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