(February 5, 2014 at 12:20 pm)Tonus Wrote: Oral Roberts was the first thing that came to mind when I saw FreeTony's comment. In 1987 he announced on his TV show that if he did not receive $8 million in donations within a certain time frame, god would kill him. As far as I know, he did indeed get his money (more than $16 million in 2013 dollars) before god could send the angel of death to kneecap him. Which is to say that Oral Roberts was handsomely rewarded for describing god as a scumbag extortionist.
But in my experience, most of the time it's an implied request with a pretty heavy dose of guilt. After all, the Biblical examples tend to show that you get god's blessing if you are extremely generous, with the implication that holding anything back might result in a moderate case of NO AFTERLIFE FOR JOO!!!
If I was coming up with scamming ideas, I'd have labelled that as "far far far too stupid to work"!
