Tell me why Yohannan is singled out to be the subject of everyone's wrath? How about those other bishops and achens and ammas?
Religion is the most fertile soil where money grows is a fact known to all these days. Each 'Aaldaivam' is a mint factory: swami, clergy or mullah!
Bishop Yohannan has at least been propagandizing gospel over the radio for a long time- something that most new christian avatars are incapable of... and it is heard that the source of much of his foreign money is his foreign wife (I have no verification, though).
The Bible talks about giving tithe (1/10- one out of 10- of your resources) to God and all our fools think that giving money to religious heads are giving money to God! (All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death, says Shakespeare in Macbeth). Yea, they made it out that way! The New Testament nowhere commands, or even recommends that Christians submit to a legalistic tithe system.
I'm glad, in the sense, he could draw a huge amount of money effortlessly to India -like any other bishop. That may be the reason why the Government of India is not after any of these people- for the much-needed foreign currency! That may be the explanation to the action of the Indian Income Tax Dept that levied 85 lakhs (?) of rupees on a religious head of Kerala last year due to his non-declaration of income from foreign countries and thus evading taxes!
Yet I have to declare that I'm not one of Bishop Yohannan fans.
Thank you.
Religion is the most fertile soil where money grows is a fact known to all these days. Each 'Aaldaivam' is a mint factory: swami, clergy or mullah!
Bishop Yohannan has at least been propagandizing gospel over the radio for a long time- something that most new christian avatars are incapable of... and it is heard that the source of much of his foreign money is his foreign wife (I have no verification, though).
The Bible talks about giving tithe (1/10- one out of 10- of your resources) to God and all our fools think that giving money to religious heads are giving money to God! (All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death, says Shakespeare in Macbeth). Yea, they made it out that way! The New Testament nowhere commands, or even recommends that Christians submit to a legalistic tithe system.
I'm glad, in the sense, he could draw a huge amount of money effortlessly to India -like any other bishop. That may be the reason why the Government of India is not after any of these people- for the much-needed foreign currency! That may be the explanation to the action of the Indian Income Tax Dept that levied 85 lakhs (?) of rupees on a religious head of Kerala last year due to his non-declaration of income from foreign countries and thus evading taxes!
Yet I have to declare that I'm not one of Bishop Yohannan fans.
Thank you.
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