Reply #20: I think he has been to the African ones though

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Mostly they are all still that way from what I have heard and surmise, just the names have changed. This fundies and others just use all this B.S. for tax write off. Mostly they are not even sacrificing anything when they are at the top of the food chain of it. Frankly I feel the whole US seems like a Reservation, if you ask me. Where in the heck are all the real freedom loving people who can think for themselves?

The Religious Right, the Christian Coalition and Their Attack on Religious Freedom

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In April of 1997 the Virginia Pilot ran an article that reported Marion Robertson's Operation Blessing is more a blessing for his finances than for the sick, poor and hungry. In the article they interviewed the chief pilot for Operation Blessing during Robertson's Zaire period, Robert Hinkle. This is during the time Marion was buying diamond mines in Africa. According to the article, "Only one or two of the roughly 40 flights could be considered humanitarian. All the rest of the flights were mining related."

So the kind, yet misguided, souls who were sending money to Operation Blessing thinking they were helping poor hungry Africans were actually helping an American millionaire make still more millions! Surely, this is NOT what Jesus would want. We challenge Marion to do what the Bible says Jesus told the rich man in Matthew 19:21-25 to do - sell his possessions and give the money to the poor, not to one of his corporations.

Currently Marion's thoughts, as usual, are fixed on making still more money. His latest financial adventures involve oil. He wants to reopen oil storage tanks and an offshore terminal that was the site of a 1990 416,000 gallon oil spill off of Huntington Beach, California. As you can imagine local residents are worried of an other environmental catastrophe.

The "Reverend" formed an oil refining company called CENCO Refining Company in March of 1998. The plan is to have CENCO pumping 50,000 barrels of crude oil per day beginning in 1999. The trouble is Marion/CENCO doesn't want to go through a full environmental impact review because, according to the Los Angeles Times, "the company is buying assets of existing firms that held permits to operate the terminal, pipeline and refinery."
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