Cheap Christian TV Is Trying to Kill You

Merchants of Death!

Paul and Jan Crouch’s Trinity Broadcasting Network is the TV home of Creflo Dollar, Benny Hinn, and a thousand other cut-rate televangelists. In 2002, TBN’s Praise the Lord hosted Pentecostal minister and “doctor” Christine Daniel, who appeared to sell her special herbal medicine. Called “C-Extract,” Daniel promised the magical herbs she collected from “around the world” would treat cancer, MS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and even for good measure, hepatitis.

You can probably guess what happened: she’s left a trail of bodies in her wake.

Authorities arrested Daniel, 55, at her San Fernando Valley home Thursday and charged her with two counts each of wire and mail fraud. If convicted, she faces up to 80 years in prison.
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In all, federal prosecutors said Daniel siphoned about $1.1 million from 55 families between 2001 and 2004. At least six patients ranging in age from 4 to 69 died within seven months after seeing Daniel.

This is over the course of three years! Three years of bleeding money from the deathly ill, convincing them to end real treatments, and killing them for profits ranging from $3,500 to $13,000. She’ll be convicted of wire fraud, but this is murder.

So, again: Paul and Jan Crouch, and the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Praise the Lord, “the only ‘live’, 2 hour, Christian program in the world,” killed at least six people. That’s probably even more than the Huffington Post!