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Full Interview: Preacher Kenneth Copeland Defends Lavish Lifestyle

Just check out those eyes. Really great work if you can get it. Pays VERY well and gives you lots of devoted followers, all happy to throw money at you, without question.

Yes, droning on and on about some make-believe old guy in the sky in a white robe, who was invented by ancient donkey herders, is a fine career move. Qualifications include:

The expertise to grin widely in every feasible situation.

Blurt out groundless moral high ground claiming nonsense for hours.

Clamp down on critics with a merry old crocodile's gaze.

Avoid talking about your mega wealth.

Accuse anyone who fails to tow your brand of biblical propaganda as being Devil - possessed.

The ability to memorise a few well-chosen scriptural quote, that take the heat of any challenge.

However, even this crafty millionaire seems to dismiss his own biblical propaganda - “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” (Matt. 19:24.)

Fundies like him love to try and influence society and liberties as well.

Copeland previously asserted that school shootings can be blamed entirely on the 1963 SCOTUS decision removing prayer from public schools.

"The devil used one atheist woman, one who had one son, one demon-possessed woman by the name of Madalyn O'Hair and her son and Supreme Court people that didn't have what it took to stand up against her, and because of that one woman today, we don't have Bibles in school. We can't pray in schools anymore. The devil used that woman to cripple our schools and open the door to the schools, and now the devil is going in there and killing children in schools."

Estimates vary but Copeland's incredible net worth of $400 Million is given. The richest pastor in America, avoids paying an annual property tax bill of $150,000 by claiming that his massive lakeside mansion is a clergy residence, which qualifies it for a complete tax break.

Sadly, these bible-bashing cranks are everywhere today. They are making a vast fortune out of millions of trusting people that blindly swallow their self-righteous act, hook line and sinker.

And their end game ?

Christian fascists preaching the "Watchmen Decree"