Re: The Wall

Mark T wrote:
> "lynx" <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>>> I've never met or known of a wealthy minister- except those cultists
>>> 
>>>> and  tele-evangelists, who aren't fair dinkum anyway.
>>> They are still "ministers".
>>> I have met wealthy ministers:
>>> - Rev Howard Carter
>>> - Pastor Brian Houston (Hill$ong)
>>> .... to name two mentioned recently.
>> However you were suggesting that most ministers are well remunerated.
> 
> QUE?  Where?
> 
> I said "If all clergy took a vow of poverty would we have any clergy
left 
> today?"
> 
> Can you imagine Brian Houston taking a vow of poverty?

I think it could easily be proved that the *average* clergyperson's 
stipend is the lowest of any group with comparable academic 
qualifications...

There are exceptions: the Houstons and other televangelists who are 
millionaires; and also some pastors I've met who cannot pay their basic 
bills...
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