Evangelical minister Tony Alamo blames the Catholics. But, police insist that they had evidence of child abuse and pornography at his headquarters in Fouke, Arkansas. Critics have long called Alamo’s massive church a cult, but he insists that it is “true Christianity.”
Social workers have interviewed children over two years and the FBI alleges “[c]hildren living at the facility may have been sexually and physically abused.”
Alamo was previously accused of child abuse and is a convicted tax evader. One of the children, Justin Miller, 11, previously told police that Alamo directed four men to strike him 140 times with a wooden paddle as punishment for minor offenses. Alamo was charged with child abuse but was cleared on that charge.
He defended his ministry: “We don’t go into pornography; nobody in the church is into that,” Alamo said. “Where do these allegations stem from? The anti-Christ government. The Catholics don’t like me because I have cut their congregation in half. They hate true Christianity.”
It appears that true Christianity demands some pretty curious things. When his wife and co-founder of the church, Susan Alamo died in 1982 of cancer, Alamo insisted that she would be resurrected and kept her on display for six months.
Alamo was successfully sued by former members who made designer jackets — they won $1.8 million. The tax evasion conviction was based on the failure to pay $7.9 million. It is unclear whether Alamo has located a biblical passage showing Jesus had continual tax problems. A census problem yes, but Jesus was known to render onto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
well i hate to tell you that i am from Arkansas and did not know what was going on in my own state that’s a shame huh
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I have no idea what you are talking about.
Sorry, pardon me – prove that Tony Alamo IS ‘of the Lord’
– I dare you…
Cro Magnum Man 1, September 30, 2008 at 11:04 pm
redemption
1, September 30, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Prove that Tony Alamo is not of the Lord. I dare you.
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Helloooooo… !!!???
Pay attention to whom you are responding…. 🙂
But if he tied a millstone around his neck and drowned himself in the depths of the sea, then I’d have to reconsider that conclusion.
redemption
1, September 30, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Prove that Tony Alamo is not of the Lord. I dare you.
Ok.
A. When Susan Alamo died in 1982 Tony Alamo declared she’d be ressurected. He kept her body on display awaiting her ressurection. It didn’t happen. The body just sort of laid there.
B. Tony Alamo was found guilty of Tax Evasion. Jesus paid taxes, and encouraged others to do so.
C. Tony abuses children. Jesus not only did not abuse children, but he advocated those prone to do so to commit suicide.
See? Its as easy as A, B, C.
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Plus, Jesus would never wear sunglasses inside with that cheesy yellow blazer.
Why do you like to believe the lies that are told you, rather than
taking upon yourself to think for yourself?
Why should you care? Is he a close friend of yours? A member of your family? Do you even know him? Or is he just some guy you’ve heard of who has been scamming poor, ignorant, naive,’religious’ folk for years?
Prove that Tony Alamo is of the Lord – I dare you…
Gaads you guys will believe anything the media tells you.
Why do you like to believe the lies that are told rather than the truth?
Maybe because the lies have some steamy sensual lusting attractions.
Truth is if you’re not persecuted you’re not a Christian.
Satan hates Christians and satan uses human flesh to persecute Christians.
Prove that Tony Alamo is not of the Lord. I dare you.
read the literature and listen to the audio messages at http://www.alamoministries.com check it out for yourself.
that is if you dare.
If these mega-churchs keep it up, at this rate we’ll have to bail them out too and to the tune of about 700 billion dolars. Are all Republicans bad with money or just the really smart ones? First it was Wall Street Welfare and now what? Pearly Gates welfare?
What is it with the radical religious right and their hypocritical abuse of children and drugs? It seems that the louder that they cry out, the more they are hiding.
“Why were they after Jesus?” he asked. “It’s the same reason. Jesus is living within me.”
The authorities were on to Jesus. He didn’t pay taxes for the night at the manger just like brother Alamo didn’t pay his taxes.
The article said their had been abuse complaints since the late 1990’s. It also said there wasn’t evidence of one boying being beaten with a wooden paddle 140 times. Who was this guy paying to keep looking the other way?