Comments on: Arkansas State Senator Sentenced to 220 Months in Prison in Bribery Case Involving Ecclesia College; UPDATE: Former President Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

By: mirele

mirele — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:38:39 +0000

Also, the state of Arkansas is going to sue Ecclesia College for $600K of the $700K involved in the kickbacks.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/sep/14/state-to-sue-for-funds-return-20180914

By: mirele

mirele — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:35:10 +0000

Oren Paris III got a three year sentence. It’s federal so he will have to serve 85 percent of it. Any previous jail time counts. https://www.4029tv.com/article/former-ecclesia-college-president-sentenced-to-prison/23103926

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 04:30:40 +0000

In reply to bacon_crispy.

It is, more generally, also the fruit of unchallenged authority? I’m afraid that I know of other kinds of churches where there are such problems in various forms and to various degrees, and, from what I can see, the common theme is the lack of checks, balances and proper scrutiny, regardless of the prevailing ideology of the church in question.

The “God has called me to do this” line can be a way to short-circuit the processes that an honest (and Christian) appraisal of human nature deems to be necessary. It is, of course, to be expected that Christian Nationalism, and any other totalitarian religious political system, will fail to take account of the truth of the human condition; they are slaves to ideology, whereas truth and morality are essentially relational (Matt 7 : 12).

By: MetalYoshi

MetalYoshi — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:25:09 +0000

Somehow, I’m not surprised to see Barton and Metaxes involved in more shady organizations.

By: Mr Jesperson

Mr Jesperson — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 03:30:05 +0000

I knew I heard this judge’s name before. This could be an interesting prelude to the GFA case also in his court. GFA is at least this corrupt which makes me wonder what the special master has been finding digging into that. We probably will not have to wait too much longer as the discovery phase is supposed to end soon by the schedule Judge Brooks has set up.