Crystal Cathedral: No Japanese Succubi Allowed

Oh please, as if they'd want to go there . . .

A commentator brought to my attention that Hobby Lobby - the retail craft store who currently has a bid of $47 million for Rev. Schuller's bankrupt Crystal Cathedral - does not intend to give it to Rick Warren, as they did when the store bought Schuller's retreat in Southern Orange County, but to The King's University, whose chancellor is Jack Hayford, a Foursquare Church.

Mart Green, son of Hobby Lobby CEO, David Green, said in a statement that they intend to buy the 40-acre property in Garden Grove and lease it to King's University. The Van Nuys-based seminary will then have the right to sublease any or all of the property, Green said.

King's University, a Bible college and seminary, is led by Chancellor Jack Hayford, founder of The Church On The Way in Van Nuys.

An interesting story regarding Jack Hayford comes from 1993 when he backed a speaker at his church in Van Nuys who had a novel theory as to what caused the downturn in Japan's markets at that time:

Footage from a 1993 video shows Hayford enthusiastically introducing and endorsing a talk during which his colleague C. Peter Wagner claimed that the early 1990's economic downturn of the Japanese economy was due to what Wagner depicted as a Shinto ritual in which Japanese emperors have sexual intercourse with a demonic sky-goddess being that, posited Wagner, may have been a succubus. Wagner blamed slack Japanese stock prices on the alleged tryst.

Sure, why not?  Wouldn'y Hayford, being in Van Nuys - long seen as the capital of the American porn industry - for years possibly know a thing or two about succubi.

And is Hobby Lobby's interest purely altruistic?  I doubt it.  Hobby Lobby only entered the California market in 2010 and just this past July 2011 announced the opening of stores 2, 3, and 4.  And not simple storefronts, either.

The three new stores, firsts to their respective markets, include a 76,211-square-foot location in Temecula, a 76,248-square-foot location in Roseville and a 74,991-square-foot location in Rancho Cucamonga. The stores are projected to open fall 2011.   

Nothing like buying advertisement from the pulpit.