QOTW: Religious SCAMS
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QOTW: Religious SCAMS
| Tue, 08-29-2006 - 6:43pm |
We've all heard of them... heartbreaking stories of people already suffering pain and hardship being taken advantage of by someone claiming to represent God or some particular religion. (The movie Leap of Faith starring Steve Martin, or the recent mention in another thread where the poster was pushed to simulate being slain by the spirit both come to mind.)
Have you ever been involved in one? Or maybe just approached by or met someone that you suspected was a scam artist? Tell us about your experience. How did you figure out it was a scam, or what made you suspect it was?







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Iv'e never been involved in any scam of this kind. In Switzerland I was getting some door to door people coming to try to "convert me to god know what and I would look firmly in their eye and say "No I'm not interested" and if they started being pushi I would screa "get out of my building" and slam the door in their face. The scientology church panphlets where going dirrectly down the trash and I would avoid anybody in the street with xyz church of abc chasing people with a clipboard.
In January 2005 barely a month after the Tsunami, Bangalore (why bangalore and not Chennai which was in the affected area?) had the visit of....Benny Hinn!!!!!! Who apparently preached that if this region of the globes had more christians people they would have been spare from this tragedy...I was sick ready about this fraud of a man in the paper, and it seemed that Bangalorean didn't really like the idea of having such a guy in their town preaching non-sense and a few riots occured the day of his "service" Who ever use the excuse of religion to blame a group from suffering a large scale natural disaster is pretty much insane and abusing the credulity of heart broken and despaired people should NOT even be tolerated!
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We've had similar stuff happen here in the US, such as after Hurrican Katrina.
So when a natural disaster stike a Christian majority area that's because of the sins committed, and if it's striking a non-christian majority area that's because Gods want to punish them for not believing???? So accorded to these sickos anyway we loose and God planned on punishing us...Geez!
I really think religion becomes poisonous when it comes to abuse the credulity of people in distress or need, and of course when one use it as a pretext to exterminate their neighbour...sad world we are living in
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Yes, it was Pat Robertson.
I've never been in a situation where the scam artists would even know I was here, let alone vulnerable.
Just lucky, I guess, but I am also a sceptic and simply don't believe in something for nothing... so I hope I would never fall for a scam.
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I'll tell ya why--it's an organization of his own making. And the how can be explained with any cult theory.
Why they still give him air-time on news channels is what's beyond me!
You have to pay them to study? Puh-lease!
Are you serious???
I have a funny story about the Scientology LOL
I have a friend who works as a nurse in Switzerland and in 2004 she came to India to work 6 month in a Tibetan monastery's dispensary as a nurse.
On day one of her colleague told her they had people coming over for a conference on gastric problems and she was really puzzled not to be informed but what the heck! having someone come over and do a little preventive there was most welcome since she stopped counting the number of monks coming in her office because of food poisoning and other stomach related problem.
She went into the meeting hall, to find two very formally dressed gentelmen and a HUGE briefcase with the entire monastery and staff seated quietley, and they started their spiel on how it's possible to cure everything by just touching you here and there by the power of energy or god knows what and that this technique could be learnt in their center, in the meantime they suggested buying the book which my friend identified immediately as she read "Dianetic institute" as being a branch of the scientology church used as a propaganda medium to recruit new members (it's easier dragging someone in based on natural therapies than saying "join the scientology church).
As soon as she found out she stand up silently looked straight in the eye of the guys and left, later she ran after the monks to get all the free panphlets to guys distributed just to realise that they all trashed the thing, and she was relieved yet not completely surprised that the scam didn't work on the monastery.
LAter she laughed out loud at this scam as the scientology people must be really dwespaired for members if they go to a tibetan buddhist monastery in South India LOL
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the scientology people must be really dwespaired for members if they go to a tibetan buddhist monastery in South India LOL
LMAO!!
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