Pastor Creflo Dollar: Jesus Died To Make You Rich

Earlier this year scamvangelist Creflo Dollar created an uproar when he asked parishioners to buy him a $65M private jet. This week he’s again the target of scorn on Christian sites for a now-deleted tweet and Facebook post. Via Christianity Today:

Pastor and popular preacher Creflo Dollar has carried out an apparent u-turn over a post which endorsed the prosperity gospel on his official Facebook page. The post was on the site for around 24 hours before seemingly being removed. Dollar’s Facebook account was updated on Wednesday evening with a post that read, “Jesus bled and died for us so that we can lay claim to the promise of financial prosperity. #ProsperityInChrist #WealthyLiving #AbundantLife” While Dollar has been accused of promoting the prosperity gospel many times before, this was the most obvious and blatant statement of those beliefs. Soon, he was being heavily criticised in the comments under the update as well as roundly mocked for the statement, which is so clearly at odds with orthodox Christian teaching. The statement was then removed from the Facebook page without comment from Dollar or his team. While there seems to be no trace of the original post remaining on his Facebook page, screengrabs were taken of it which are readily available online.

Dollar’s net worth is estimated to be in the tens of millions.