The most odious get rich quick scam of all

**byzantium** · 08-23-2009 01:17 PM

This article recently popped up on the Rick Ross Institute's web site. The Ross Institute maintains a database of news articles about destructive cults. This particular article is about "prosperity gospel", the belief that you can become magically rich by giving to some flashy preacher.

Believers Invest in the Gospel of Getting Rich

People are likely giving money they don't have to these preachers. Of course, the idea that one's own hard work determines one's bank balance is not on the board with these guys-it's "God" that's doing the providing, courtesy of the preacher, who of course lives EXTREMELY large off the money that his working class followers can't afford to give him. Whether one chooses to see turns of events in one's business as the work of God is a person's own business, of course, but it doesn't help that one is "tithing" to some guy who doesn't need it rather than spending it on the business. This isn't giving money directly to the poor, it's making a rich preacher richer, all with promises of a pot of gold. The depression we're in is not taken into account, of course.

**Rodest** · 08-23-2009 01:27 PM

Thx for sharing. Seems interesting how people will give anything and how some are so gullible.

**Lisatheone** · 08-23-2009 02:53 PM

I guess that people will fall for something because they want to believe in it, even though they know at some level it can't be real...I've fallen for a couple myself but thankfully i only lost about a $100, people have lost a lot more and even more in time..

**Rodest** · 08-23-2009 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by Lisatheone

I guess that people will fall for something because they want to believe in it, even though they know at some level it can't be real...I've fallen for a couple myself but thankfully i only lost about a $100, people have lost a lot more and even more in time..

Exactly, all these get rich schemes are kind of funny. "See how I make $50000 a week", and all that. Yet charge $20 for us to find out...If they were so rich they; 1. wouldn't tell us, or 2. either give it away for free or thousands of dollars.