here's something i have already learned...idiot savants like ben carson may have advanced degrees and be able to write books, but when they start spouting off about their invisible friend in the sky, they reveal themselves as utterly delusional and, if not certifiably insane, certainly borderline insane.
      
that includes you, minnery, with your 'just like billy graham' howler of a revelation.  
(there is something seriously creepy here, but that's another story).
  
look, drop the pretenses.  

this is a political con gussied up in the rags of dominionist theology.
  
the people who drop $35 - $100 in the coffers either don't know that or they are pretending that they don't know in order to have these hucksters advance their political views.

how does any of this con job comfort the truly afflicted and the downtrodden?

and yes, i do know that ben carson and ben chavis are different people.

dollars to doughnuts plenty of the attendees don't know that.