It is amazing that making money from willing believers is still so easy in the 21st century. Religion and fraud always made a great combination - doesn’t matter if it was done by the Holy Mother Church, some Indian pseudo guru or modern day tele-evangelist. The religion itself doesn’t matter - the attitude and willingness to milk your fellow believers does.
More disturbing than anything is that so called true believers are so easily cheated out of their money. Just tell them something they want to hear and swear that God sent you - and they open their wallets. The desire of some people to want to believe can be used and abused for almost anything - spending money on jets, hookers or drugs is the least of this chain of problems. I don’t mind people wasting money for such things - instead of bullets and bombs to kill infidels or exerts political influence.
Rob Hubbard was correct: “If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.”
