Creflo Dollar

[[File:Creflo and Taffi Dollar.jpg|thumb|165px|Creflo & Taffi in 2013]]
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The appropriately named '''Creflo Augustus Dollar, Jr.''' (1962–) is a nondenominational [[televangelist]] from [[Georgia]] who teaches that [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] wants you to be rich and that [[Pokémon]] makes you gay.<ref>[https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/04/17/tv2s-tele-evangelist-says-pokemon-turns-people-gay/ TV2’s tele-evangelist says Pokemon turns people gay], ''CathNews New Zealand'' 17 April 2015</ref> He, along with wife Taffi (yes, Taffi), is prominent in the "Word of Faith" or "[[name it and claim it]]" movement. Among other things, he teaches that there is a set of "Believer's Rights" promised in the [[Bible]] that includes the same abilities Jesus had, such as the power to raise the dead from the grave.  Believe it or not, [[Dollar]] [[Irony|is his real name]].

==Financial history==
Dollar's ministry, as well as that of [[Benny Hinn]], was the subject of a feeble Senatorial probe started in November of 2007 by Sen. Chuck Grassley, who alleged financial mismanagement and unjust enrichment.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Televangelists escape penalty in Senate inquiry
|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40960871/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/televangelists-escape-penalty-senate-inquiry/#.VIQXPabx0tU
|date=January 7, 2011 |publisher=NBC News |accessdate=2016-05-21}}</ref> In March 2015, Dollar 
begged
 asked his followers for a $65 million jet so he could jaunt about in style, asking for yet more money. His old jet is broken; maybe there's a nut missing? Dollar is estimated to be only worth $27 million, so it seems he can't afford it on his own.<ref>{{Cite web 
|title=Atlanta ‘prosperity gospel’ pastor calls on congregation to buy him a new $65 million jet
|url=http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/atlanta-prosperity-gospel-pastor-calls-on-congregation-to-buy-him-a-new-65-million-jet
|author=David Ferguson
|website=Raw Story 
|date=March 13, 2015
|accessdate=2016-05-18}}</ref>

===Possible repentance===
Recently, Dollar has been claiming to have renounced his views about [[tithing]].

==Abuse allegations==
In June 2012, Dollar was arrested in an alleged choking and punching attack on his 15-year-old daughter.<ref>{{Cite web 
|title=Televangelist Creflo Dollar arrested in alleged choking attack on daughter
|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/06/08/12126777-televangelist-creflo-dollar-arrested-in-alleged-choking-attack-on-daughter
|date=June 8, 2012
|publisher=NBC News
|accessdate=2016-05-18}}</ref> 
Dollar denied doing anything more than spanking her, after she became disrespectful, and [[Satandidit|blamed the incident on Satan]]. Quoting from {{bible|Psalm|35|11}} ("False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not"), he told his congregation, "The devil knows in order to discredit the message, you have to first of all discredit the messenger."<ref>{{Cite news |title=Creflo Dollar Daughter's 911 Call Released: Not the First Time It's Happened
|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/creflo-dollars-daughters-911-call-released-not-the-first-time-its-happened-76522/
|author=Katherine T. Phan |date=June 12, 2012 |newspaper=The Christian Post |accessdate=2016-05-19}}</ref> The charges were dropped after he attended anger management classes.<ref>{{Cite news
|title=Creflo Dollar Charges for Beating Daughter Dropped after Anger Management Classes
|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/creflo-dollar-charges-for-beating-daughter-dropped-after-anger-management-classes-88881
|date=January 25, 2013
|author=Stoyan Zaimov
|newspaper=The Christian Post
|accessdate=2016-05-18}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Prosperity Gospel]]

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