Nothing reveals O’Neill’s hypocrisy more than his so-called business “philosophy.” As said in my other post, O’Neill’s only mission in life was (and is) to make himself financially secure. The hypocrisy lies in the egregious distortion of scripture to fit his own selfish ambitions. To justify his worldly ambition (to be financially secure), O’Neill does the classic trick. He arbitrarily connects randomly lifted Biblical verses to justify his personal businesses ambitions. Here is the blurb from his Website about Christian Corps International, the deceptive name he has provided for his business activities: Christian Business International is an organ of Christian Corps International. CCI is a federation of international businesses that are at Christ’s disposal. Their primary purpose is His filling the earth and subduing it: this transposes the power and purpose of work from man (Genesis 3:19) to God (Genesis 1:28) and radically affects every area of business. Wow! O’Neill speaks and God listens! Even if God does not, certainly his followers do. Experience, however, has taught me that the followers are actually not following their leader. The leader merely spells out the followers desires and expectations. Once the follower hears what he/she has been harboring in his/her own mind, it RINGS a bell. The leader’s words sound nothing but godly. The followers are following their own ambitions. O’Neill, like all other religious and other ring leaders, is a master of “wording” what the followers want to hear. Look at the above scriptural distortion. Obviously, Genesis 1:28 (the blessing of God) happens before Genesis 3:19 (the curse of God). What O’Neill is claiming here would make the holiest shudder. O’Neill is claiming that the curse of God is removed by simply opening a modern day business! What is this “power and purpose of work?” Man did not chose to be cursed. Even if that is correct that the curse of God was brought upon mankind by a willful act, even then WHAT MAKES O’NELL THINKS THAT HE HAS THE POWER TO REMOVE THIS CURSE?!! Yet, O’Neill thinks by simply putting his business to “Christ’s disposal” he and his followers automatically enter into the biblical blessing!! If this theological claim is not kooky enough for you, examine O’Neill’s worldly claims. “CCI is federation of International Businesses.” Really? The only businesses in this “international federation” are those owned by O’Neill!! I challenge O’Neill to show any other business affiliation in this “federation” in which he does not have personal ownership. The question is who owns “Christian Business International or Christian Corps International?” For years O’Neill operated CCI in Minneapolis. Who were the owners of CCI? This was bandied as a “non-profit organization.” However, the fact was O’Neill never shared ownership with anyone. Which is why when he fled Minneapolis, deserting his band of Campus Church elders, he took the CCI brand with him and was able to resurrect it in Raleigh, NC. O’Neill, you do not have the ethical integrity to tell the world who owns CCI? If you did then there will be something about it on your website. But even WORLD INVISIBLE, which is supposedly a religious/spiritual site, has .COM (commerce) at the end of its domain name. For O’Neill spirituality and religion always has been about COMMERCE. This is what exposes this man to what he is—a small business owner masquerading as a “Pastor.” A man who has never cared for anyone except himself. Which is why in my very first post I said, this man can call himself whatever he wants. But if has the slightest bit of conscience in him (which he does not) he will not designate himself as the Pastor. O’Neill continues to exploit and molest young people spiritually. In this respect he is on the same level as those Catholic priests who have sexually molested children. The tragedy is that while many of these Catholic priests have been brought to justice, O’Neill will never be indicted let alone convicted of any crime. Nevertheless, O’Neill is worse than these Catholic priests. Mr. O’Neill you will never stand trial for your innumerable crimes. However, the Internet has exposed you. You also know the passive attitude of thousands of Christians. You know these Christians will leave you alone because they will leave things for God to judge. Not me. I know who you are Mr. And none of your business claims will give you that respectability that you have manged to acquire in your own little world where you are surrounded by your sick followers like Myron Kliever, Greg Lietschcu (sorry I could never spell his last name), Dan Schafer, and Colleen Donahue, Lucy Blomfield, Martha Nelson and the rest. YOUR ARE A SNAKE OIL SALESMAN O’NEILL. [CLICK “COMMENTS” BELOW – TO SEE ADDITIONAL COMMENTS CLICK “ABOUT KUSH K” BUTTON ABOVE – YOUR COMMENTS ARE WELCOME!] Business International Newsletter
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CCI is a federation of international businesses that are at Christ’s disposal.
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EXPOSING Rev. "PASTOR" ERNEST O'NEILL 
1, Dean said
September 22, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Hi Kush K,
I’d pretty much forgotten about O’Neill until having a “whatever happened to” conversation with a friend last week. So I googled him and found your site.
I quit going to campus church around 1980 so missed a lot of the crash and burn. I worked for Fish enterprises for a while around 1973-1974 somewhere and at that time it was fun, but I had better opportunities somewhere else. Looking back, the business model of paying slave labor wages and hoping for some kind of business miracle is a dumb plan doomed to failure.
Hope things are going ok.
dino
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2.kushykush said
September 24, 2009 at 5:30 pm e
Hello Dean: Thank you for taking the time and writing. I have been so taken by other work that have not been able to devote as much time to exposing O’Neill.
However, in this short time of little over a year, I have heard from very interesting people like you who at one time were “insiders.”
I came to know the group in India in 1976, and did not join until 1980 when I went to England. The business model (if at all it can be called a model!) was the same over there. A group of us lived in the same house. Left for work early morining in the same car or van and came back the same time. Cooking duties were rotated. And for all that labor we were paid a big weekly salary of 7 British Pounds (Wow!). But what did I care, I was certain that I was being cared for by the higher power!
The Garden Restaurant in England and the small fruit shop barely broke even. Needless to say that if Fish had to pay us the going market rate in wages, the business could not have functioned financially for even a month. O’Neill had no problemswith this slave business model. He visited England at least twice or more a year. However, did not stay at the house for more than a night. He would stay at an undisclosed location or make the excuse that he is off to Ireland. Myron Kliewer, the elder, who is still incharge of London operations, was the guy who kept all the bank books and knew what actually was going on. Later they bought this old mansion, and I guess all the xtra money went to the house’s mortgage. To this day it has not been disclosed as to who has the title to that London mansion in Pottersbar.
The next step is to write him a paper letter and send it over to him and his enablers. To this day this man has not apologized to anyone for his inhuman conduct. Although, legally it does not do any good but morally speaking I believe we can still ask for an accounting. At least he will die knowing that he could not fool everyone.
Anyway, where are you now and what did you do after leaving Fish?
Regards,
Kush K
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3.kushykush said
September 24, 2009 at 5:33 pm e
DEAN’S REPLY: SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
Dean Lindberg to me
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Hi Kushy,
I worked for Fish here in Minneapolis Minnesota for maybe around 1 1/2 to 2 years. I was an art major and recent college graduate. A friend and I talked Fish into having an art department and I built a pottery studio and sold pottery at art fairs and stuff. My friend was (still is) an excellent fine art painter. The art division didn’t work out that well, but we sure had fun. I quit Fish because a band I played in was trying to make it in the entertainment business and the band members wanted me to move to their town which is about 40 miles north of Minneapolis.
During the time I worked at Fish the main moneymaker became selling decopauge plaques that were (in my view anyway) totally shitty looking things. My friend had to paint crappy little pictures of big eyed cutesy children and mushrooms and flowers that kind of junk which were then duplicated and mounted on those plaques. For a while it looked like my friend Joel Lewis and I would also have to join other Fish members in selling the plaques door-to-door, but somehow or other we got out of having to do that.
The Art people all lived together for a few months in a restored mansion/art gallery which was a total blast. Every night we’d have dinner together and the group was full of people with great senses of humor, and every night at dinner was a total laugh riot. Fish bought that mansion/gallery for one dollar, but then found out it was $50,000 in debt so that why it didn’t last very long.
After the mansion/gallery thing fell apart, Fish rented some space in a warehouse type building and I put the pottery studio together. There was also a little studio making leather goods, sandals and purses and stuff and the decopauge operation in the space.
I never went to England or did any traveling for Fish. I know some people thought it was really cool to go to England or Amsterdam and stuff but for me it was always about doing my thing making pots. I came up with an idea that they should make a professional pottery studio and mass produce stuff. They liked the idea, but I left Fish before before setting that up and it never happened.
I went to Campus Church for a few years after I quit Fish, but eventually I stopped because sleeping in on Sundays was so nice. So I never experienced some of the bad stuff that happened because I was long gone by that time.
Go ahead and post this on your site if you want. It would be cool to see other people’s memories posted too.
Oh, after Fish I played in our band for about 1 1/2 years, then freelanced for an animation studio for a while and then got hired and worked there 12 years. After that I’ve been a freelance illustrator and animator.
So that’s my story!
Dean