$22-Million ‘Megiddo’

The ability of a television evangelist, Paul Crouch, to bankroll a feature film with a $22-million production budget is obscene (“Following the Book to Success,” by Robert W. Welkos, Sept. 18). Whose money is he gambling with?

In the acrid wake of terrorist attacks last week, Crouch’s son, Matthew, has the audacity to imply that God had a hand in timing the release date of “Megiddo,” the semi-biblical film he produced. Matthew Crouch is quoted as saying that “[God] positioned this film to be the answer for a question we didn’t even know would be asked.”

This remark comes from a Christian man who displays a replica of an AK-47 assault rifle in his office. Isn’t this the same weapon Osama bin Laden is shown firing in file footage on every television news program recently?

Thank you for exposing these supposed men of God who are really more interested in playing the movie game rather than truly saving souls.

TOM HALM

Burbank

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Verily, I say unto you: I will not see “Megiddo: The Omega Code 2.” I was disgusted to see Matthew Crouch’s wall of trophies that he “sportingly” killed with bow and arrow. I don’t think it made any difference to the animals; in fact, it might have been more humane to just blow them away.

God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after his kind, cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth.”

KATHY HICKER

Los Angeles

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I never thought I’d see the day when a shameless self-promoter could come up with an angle to promote his new film that would make even Jerry Bruckheimer blush ... but heaven help us, that day has arrived.

BRUCE BELLAND

Encino