Bad medicine: Televangelist Joyce Meyer says you need to be stupid to believe in God while telling her gullible followers that her 2-year-old great-grandson is a faith healer with supernatural powers.

Charisma News reports:

Joyce Meyer: My 2-Year-Old Great-Grandson Supernaturally Healed His Mother Joyce Meyer says her 2-year-old great-grandson, Jeremiah, prayed for healing for his mother’s back pain, and she was healed.

In a recent sermon the greedy and dishonest televangelist told her flock of gullible rubes that her 2-year-old great-grandson healed his mother via the power of prayer:

My great-grandson who’s 2, his mother’s back was hurting really bad. She was hurting so bad that she was laying on the bed crying. And he went up to her. Jeremiah, 2 years old, put his hand on her, said, ‘Jesus, Mommy, ouchie, amen.’ And her back quit hurting!

It is an idiotic claim, tailor-made for her special brand of half-wits. In her sermon Meyer went on to suggest that one must be stupid to believe in God:

Stop trying to get hold of God with your head. It’s a heart thing. You got to see what’s in your heart. As soon as you get into reasoning, you’re going to have trouble believing. You need to come like a little child.

She’s right: “As soon as you get into reasoning, you’re going to have trouble believing.” Because once you honestly think about it, the notion of God becomes absurd.

But for Meyer, this isn’t about God, this is about parting gullible rubes from their hard-earned money.

And for Meyer, the money is good!

Wikipedia notes:

In November 2003, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a four-part special report detailing Meyer’s “$10 million corporate jet, her husband’s $107,000 silver-gray Mercedes sedan, her $2 million home and houses worth another $2 million for her four children,” a $20 million headquarters, furnished with “$5.7 million worth of furniture, artwork, glassware, and the latest equipment and machinery,” including a “$30,000 malachite round table, a $23,000 marble-topped antique commode, a $14,000 custom office bookcase, a $7,000 Stations of the Cross in Dresden porcelain, a $6,300 eagle sculpture on a pedestal, another eagle made of silver bought for $5,000, among many other expensive items – all paid for by the ministry.”

Now if one was a Christian, one might point out to Meyer that Christ taught that rich people don’t go to heaven:

“Truly I say to you that with difficulty a rich person will enter into the kingdom of heaven! And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich person into the kingdom of God” (Matthew 19:23-24).

But clearly Meyer doesn’t care about what Jesus said when it comes to wealth, and so she will continue to ignore that Bible verse. But she will make use of Bible verses telling people they need to be stupid to believe in God, because that line of reasoning keeps filling her pockets. It turns out, many people will pay her for giving them permission to remain wallowing in ignorance and religious superstition.

Sad!

Bottom line: Joyce Meyer, a deplorable televangelist, keeps telling people they need to be stupid to believe in God, and the stupid people keep sending her money.

What a racket.