The word of god?

An American religious movement has recently come to my attention. 'The Prosperity Ministry', increasingly a major part of many Pentecostal churches, and also a part of their near-cousins the Evangelical movement. These are the sort of churches seen on tv where 24000 people drive in from the suburbs to listen to some fool who would otherwise be selling mutual funds talk about god. And their idea of god's love for his creation is that his children should be rich. I don't know if they read the same Bible I did, and I know that they probably have countless examples memorized chapter and verse to do battle with naysayers such as myself; mostly from the Old Testament, which offers a wealth of often contradictory phrases, many of which the Gospels have been seen to deny outright. But I seem to remember the character of the Gospels as being one of overwhelming poverty. The insidiousness and irreligiosity of this increasingly mainstream sect is deeply disturbing. Here is an example:
"Who would want to get in on something where you're miserable, poor, broke and ugly and you just have to muddle through until you get to heaven?" asks Joyce Meyer, a popular television preacher and author ... "I believe God wants to give us nice things." Direct CNN quote of Time cover story: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/10/time.cover.tm/index.html
I am utterly certain, upon hearing the gospel of christ through the lips of Mrs. Meyer, that I can make god happy by selling my truck and driving around in a Rolls Royce. That whole thing about helping the poor must have been a misreading, for which I apologize to those of superior intellect to mine. I am supposed to make a token motion to charity, not enough to keep me from enjoying what god wants for me: custom shirts from Charvet. In fact, god wants me to be happy in my wealth, so I think I will burn food right in front of the starving, just to fulfill his vision for my happiness - never mind anyone else's. Clearly, the meaning of the good life has been distilled into its' purest essence - material wealth. Somehow they managed to find this message in the words of a man who was a carpenter, a preacher who went from town to town relying upon charity for his very survival and had no possessions to speak of, and urged his disciples to leave behind their flocks and their nets to join him. Here are some of the verses that my Christ spoke:
Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they who have riches enter the kingdom of God!
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Luke 18:22-25
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves.
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. Matthew 21:12-13
I would consider these passages to be somewhat definitive. In my mind, Christ would probably walk into one of these mega-churches and burn their creepy self-help books and tear apart the smash the headsets of the televangelists. I recall the tale of the Grand Inquisitor from Dostoyevsky's 'Brother's Karamazov'. The Grand Inquisitor informs the returned Christ that his message was fundamentally flawed - that the people need bread, not freedom/love, and that his second ministry would end the next day with his burning. Christ responds finally with a kiss, which both recognizes the apparent flaws of his creation and the tantamount position of love therein. My one consolation when looking on the increased popularity of this outright hypocrisy is that history provides many examples of doctrines destroyed by wealth: the rot of indulgences in the Catholic church, among other things mostly grown from greed and power, led to the Protestant reformation, essentially destroying the power of Rome across half of europe. I refuse to lie for these fools but will update you continuously of my dialogue with their groups. In fact Pierrot le Fou, though sharing no allegiance to any known god, would gladly burn their temples, just from spite.
In conclusion:
Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mark 7:6