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The Reverend Ike
The Rt Rev Dr Frederick J Eikerenkoetter II, who died on July 28 aged 74, was a pioneer preacher of what has become known as the "Prosperity Gospel"; this
is based on the claim that the root of all evil is not the love of money, but the lack of it.
Published: 5:20PM BST 30 Jul 2009
The Reverend Ike, as he was known to his followers, offered to open people's hearts to the love of God: "But it won't be the God you learned about in Sunday
School. It won't be that stingy, hard-hearted, hard-of-hearing God-in the-Sky." Instead it would be a God who teaches that salvation lies in being rich.
"Close your eyes and see green," he exhorted his followers. "Money up to your armpits, a roomful of money and there you are, just tossing around in it like a
swimming pool." Or alternatively: "Don't wait for your pie in the sky, by and by. Say I want my pie right now – and I want it with ice cream on top!"
Beatles songs as likely to explain Christianity as the Bible, says bishopThere was no point in prayer and repentance: "When you kneel down to pray, you put
yourself in a good position to get a kick in the behind." And there was absolutely no virtue in self-denial: "If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven,
think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper."
The way to salvation was through a self-help philosophy which the Reverend Ike called "positive self-image psychology" or "thinkonomics", and his approach
was to interpret the Bible "psychologically, rather than theologically". "This is the do-it-yourself church," he proclaimed. "The only saviour in this philosophy
is God in you."
The main beneficiary of this approach was the Reverend Ike himself. As well as founding no fewer than three churches, he was one of the first evangelists to
exploit the power of television. At the height of his success, in the 1970s, he reached an audience estimated at 2.5 million.
In return for spiritual guidance, he requested cash donations – notes, preferably, rather than coins ("Change makes your minister nervous," he claimed). He
also sold a range of merchandise, including guides on issues such as to "How to have surplus instead of shortage"; "How to make people love to do exactly
what you want"; and "Enemy Fixer", a guide to "getting rid of your enemies without getting into trouble".
Since money was "God in action" and its accoutrements a sign of Divine Grace, the Reverend Ike had no qualms about flaunting it with luxurious homes in
New York and Hollywood, a huge rhinestone-encrusted wardrobe, drawers full of flashy jewellery and a fleet of Cadillacs, Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. "My
garages runneth over," as he put it.
Frederick Joseph Eikerenkoetter II was born on June 1 1935 at Ridgeland, South Carolina. His father was a Baptist minister of Dutch-Indonesian extraction,
his mother an African-American schoolteacher.
He began his career as a teenage preacher at his father's church and, after leaving school, took a degree in Theology at the American Bible College in
Chicago. After two years in the US Air Force as an assistant chaplain, he returned to Ridgeland, where he founded his first church, the United Church of
Jesus Christ for All People.
Somehow, though, the traditional Christian message did not seem to offer the answers the Reverend Ike was looking for, and in 1964 he moved to Boston
where he founded the United Christian Evangelistic Association and set himself up as a faith healer. Two years later he moved to New York City to establish
the Christ Community United Church, setting up shop in an old cinema in Harlem. It was here that he began to tailor his message to appeal to a more
prosperous audience.
In 1965 he devised the "Blessing Plan", under which the faithful were exhorted to give whatever they could afford to the Reverend Ike, with the promise that
it would be returned with interest to those of sufficient faith.
In 1969 the fruits of the Blessing Plan enabled him to pay $600,000 for the old Loew's 175th Street movie theatre, a 1930s extravaganza described as being
built in the "Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco style". He made it his headquarters, calling it the Palace
Cathedral. By the mid-1970s the Reverend Ike was touring the country and preaching on 1,770 radio stations and on major television networks.
From time to time his financial dealings attracted the unwelcome attentions of the Internal Revenue Service, but his church somehow managed to retain its
tax-exempt status and continues to this day. Its website describes its founder as a man whose teachings "are accepted as universal truths". Sadly for
Christianity, they probably are.
The Reverend Ike married, in 1962, Eula May Dent. They had a son, Xavier F Eikerenkoetter, who inherits the ministry.
Published July 30 2009
The Rt Rev Dr Frederick J Eikerenkoetter II, who died on July 28 aged 74, was a pioneer preacher of what has become known as the "Prosperity Gospel"; this
is based on the claim that the root of all evil is not the love of money, but the lack of it.
Published: 5:20PM BST 30 Jul 2009
The Reverend Ike, as he was known to his followers, offered to open people's hearts to the love of God: "But it won't be the God you learned about in Sunday
School. It won't be that stingy, hard-hearted, hard-of-hearing God-in the-Sky." Instead it would be a God who teaches that salvation lies in being rich.
"Close your eyes and see green," he exhorted his followers. "Money up to your armpits, a roomful of money and there you are, just tossing around in it like a
swimming pool." Or alternatively: "Don't wait for your pie in the sky, by and by. Say I want my pie right now – and I want it with ice cream on top!"
Beatles songs as likely to explain Christianity as the Bible, says bishopThere was no point in prayer and repentance: "When you kneel down to pray, you put
yourself in a good position to get a kick in the behind." And there was absolutely no virtue in self-denial: "If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven,
think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper."
The way to salvation was through a self-help philosophy which the Reverend Ike called "positive self-image psychology" or "thinkonomics", and his approach
was to interpret the Bible "psychologically, rather than theologically". "This is the do-it-yourself church," he proclaimed. "The only saviour in this philosophy
is God in you."
The main beneficiary of this approach was the Reverend Ike himself. As well as founding no fewer than three churches, he was one of the first evangelists to
exploit the power of television. At the height of his success, in the 1970s, he reached an audience estimated at 2.5 million.
In return for spiritual guidance, he requested cash donations – notes, preferably, rather than coins ("Change makes your minister nervous," he claimed). He
also sold a range of merchandise, including guides on issues such as to "How to have surplus instead of shortage"; "How to make people love to do exactly
what you want"; and "Enemy Fixer", a guide to "getting rid of your enemies without getting into trouble".
Since money was "God in action" and its accoutrements a sign of Divine Grace, the Reverend Ike had no qualms about flaunting it with luxurious homes in
New York and Hollywood, a huge rhinestone-encrusted wardrobe, drawers full of flashy jewellery and a fleet of Cadillacs, Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. "My
garages runneth over," as he put it.
Frederick Joseph Eikerenkoetter II was born on June 1 1935 at Ridgeland, South Carolina. His father was a Baptist minister of Dutch-Indonesian extraction,
his mother an African-American schoolteacher.
He began his career as a teenage preacher at his father's church and, after leaving school, took a degree in Theology at the American Bible College in
Chicago. After two years in the US Air Force as an assistant chaplain, he returned to Ridgeland, where he founded his first church, the United Church of
Jesus Christ for All People.
Somehow, though, the traditional Christian message did not seem to offer the answers the Reverend Ike was looking for, and in 1964 he moved to Boston
where he founded the United Christian Evangelistic Association and set himself up as a faith healer. Two years later he moved to New York City to establish
the Christ Community United Church, setting up shop in an old cinema in Harlem. It was here that he began to tailor his message to appeal to a more
prosperous audience.
In 1965 he devised the "Blessing Plan", under which the faithful were exhorted to give whatever they could afford to the Reverend Ike, with the promise that
it would be returned with interest to those of sufficient faith.
In 1969 the fruits of the Blessing Plan enabled him to pay $600,000 for the old Loew's 175th Street movie theatre, a 1930s extravaganza described as being
built in the "Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco style". He made it his headquarters, calling it the Palace
Cathedral. By the mid-1970s the Reverend Ike was touring the country and preaching on 1,770 radio stations and on major television networks.
From time to time his financial dealings attracted the unwelcome attentions of the Internal Revenue Service, but his church somehow managed to retain its
tax-exempt status and continues to this day. Its website describes its founder as a man whose teachings "are accepted as universal truths". Sadly for
Christianity, they probably are.
The Reverend Ike married, in 1962, Eula May Dent. They had a son, Xavier F Eikerenkoetter, who inherits the ministry.
Published July 30 2009
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Ghana Girl ( a love story)
I got me an African girl
Who lives half way around the world
She told me her name was Pearl
I love my Ghana Girl
Our love will never fail
I know you wanna hear the tale
How I met her thru an e-mail
Right on AO AIL
The message was right there in my "inbox"
She said her Daddy had money and stocks
Plus, those Blood Diamonds that we call "Rocks"
But it was all stuck in Fort Knox
She told me my profile showed I was a kind man
Big rewards if I help her with her plan
I only need to send her twenty grand
Forward a cashier's check to her land
Her situation will no longer be blue
Then all our dreams together will come true
Ghana Girl , I have a question for you
Does anyone ever fall for that doo-doo!?!?!?
-Cinque
I got me an African girl
Who lives half way around the world
She told me her name was Pearl
I love my Ghana Girl
Our love will never fail
I know you wanna hear the tale
How I met her thru an e-mail
Right on AO AIL
The message was right there in my "inbox"
She said her Daddy had money and stocks
Plus, those Blood Diamonds that we call "Rocks"
But it was all stuck in Fort Knox
She told me my profile showed I was a kind man
Big rewards if I help her with her plan
I only need to send her twenty grand
Forward a cashier's check to her land
Her situation will no longer be blue
Then all our dreams together will come true
Ghana Girl , I have a question for you
Does anyone ever fall for that doo-doo!?!?!?
-Cinque
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