RE: Increased door-knocking...
April 21, 2011 at 10:12 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2011 at 10:18 am by Doubting Thomas.)
I think that might be the same place, Thor. One of the pieces of mail was a promise of a "prayer cloth" which if you send them a bunch of money, they'll send you the cloth which will somehow make your prayers that much stronger or some bullshit like that. There was also a bunch of other nonsense they were trying to sell, which, I guess if you were a poor religious person looking for your prayers of prosperity to be answered you'd fall for it, but to a rational person just smelled like a ripoff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Matthew's_Churches
They tend to target low-income neighborhoods, just the right people who might be praying for money. Just like religious people to target those in need with promises of magic spells that will raise them out of misery. And of course being a "church," all donations are considered free-will offerings, so if you give them the contents of your bank account, you'll never see it again. It's hard to file fraud charges against people like this. It's a pretty good scam they've got going, since all the money they're raking in is tax free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Matthew's_Churches
They tend to target low-income neighborhoods, just the right people who might be praying for money. Just like religious people to target those in need with promises of magic spells that will raise them out of misery. And of course being a "church," all donations are considered free-will offerings, so if you give them the contents of your bank account, you'll never see it again. It's hard to file fraud charges against people like this. It's a pretty good scam they've got going, since all the money they're raking in is tax free.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
