Tony Alamo, and the Truth About Religion As A Justification For Evil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Alamo is the Wikipedia article about Tony Alamo, and following are a few extracts from the Wiki article to show you who he is, what he did, and how he uses religion to propogate evil:

Tony Alamo (born Bernie LaZar Hoffman on September 20, 1934^[1][2]) is an American preacher, singer, entrepreneur, religious evangelist, and convicted child sex offender. He and his late wife Susan are best known as the founders of a nominally Christian organization currently known as Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. The organization is based in and around Fouke and Alma, Arkansas, United States.^[3] It has been referred to as acult.^[2][4][5][6] On July 24, 2009 Alamo was convicted in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, sitting in Texarkana, Arkansas, on 10 counts of Interstate Transportation of Minors for Illegal Sexual Purposes, Rape, Sexual Assault and Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors.^{[7][8][9][10]}. He now faces a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison when sentenced later this year.^[11]

.........In 1985 Alamo excoriated Pope John Paul II and president Ronald Reagan. "Did you know that the Pope and Ronald Reagan are a couple of Anti-Christ Devils and that they are selling us all down the drain?" asked a tract entitled Genocide. That same year, a federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee, charged Alamo with filing a false income tax return, and he reportedly failed to file income tax returns during the next three years.

He then married Elizabeth Amrhein. After a custody battle, they lost control of her children.

.....In February 1991 Alamo ordered his followers to bring along his second wife's body when they evacuated the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation compound in Crawford County, Arkansas. The compound was about to be raided by federal marshals in the wake of a civil lawsuit against Alamo.

Alamo was ultimately convicted of federal tax evasion in 1994. He completed a prison sentence and was released on December 8, 1998.^[16] He then went to a halfway house in Texarkana.

Tony Alamo Christian Ministries' leaflet placed on an automobile windshield

Alamo's followers sometimes distribute tracts of his writings publicly. The tracts predict impending doom and Armageddon and invite the reader to accept Jesus as his or her savior while condemning Catholicism, the Pope and the American government as a Satanic conspiracy behind events such as 9/11, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the John F. Kennedy assassination. Tracts currently being distributed include a picture of Alamo circa 1986. In a tract distributed shortly before the siege of the Branch Davidian establishment in Waco, Texas, Alamo protested the media's use of the word "compound" to describe the campus of his seminary and the word "cult" to describe his ministry.

Child abuse conviction

On September 20, 2008, federal and state investigative agents raided the Arkansas headquarters of the ministry as part of a child pornography investigation.^[18][19] This investigation involved allegations of physical and sexual abuse and allegations of polygamy and underage marriage. According to Terry Purvis, mayor of Fouke, Arkansas, his office has received complaints from former ministry members about allegations of child abuse, sexual abuse and polygamy since the ministry established itself in the area. In turn, Purvis turned over information about the allegations to the FBI.^[20] Alamo denied the child abuse allegations.^[21] On September 25, 2008, Alamo was arrested by Arizona police and FBI agents in Flagstaff, Arizona, on a federal warrant out of Texarkana, Arkansas, federal court (case number 08-40020) on charges that he transported minors (as early as 1994)[2] over state lines for sexual activity in violation of theMann Act.^[22] On October 17, 2008, he pleaded not guilty, and his case was set for trial.^[23]

On October 22, 2008, Alamo's former followers testified in court during a preliminary hearing that Alamo had practiced polygamy and had taken a nine-year-old girl as a wife.^[24]

On December 2, 2008, a judge in Arkansas unsealed a federal indictment that included eight new charges against Alamo. The 74-year-old Alamo, who remained jailed while awaiting trial, originally faced two charges of taking minor girls across state lines for sex. The eight new counts were similar and involved four new alleged victims.^[25] His trial began on July 13, 2009, and on July 24, 2009, Alamo was found guilty on all ten federal counts. It took his jury of nine men and three women only 11 hours to find Alamo Guilty.^[26][27]

On July 28, 2009, shortly after his conviction, Tony Alamo again made headlines by claiming to be, "just another one of the prophets that went to jail for the Gospel." ^[28]

And if you wanna get sicker, take a look at this pervert's website. Dude has big ole churches n all, not just some small-time idiot. People actually listen to this man, and believe n support him!

http://www.alamoministries.com/content/english/index.html