Religious Corruption Continues Apace

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Just found this:

This one has everything. Gift wrapped Mercedes limousines. Fancy statues. And a forced labour scheme that was being used to finance the lavish lifestyle of another “man of god”.

If the mods/admins wish to move this to an existing thread, feel free, but I couldn’t find an existing thread devoted to such matters in the short time available before I had to decamp for an invertebrate zoology workshop day :slight_smile:

This lavish mansion is now the focus of an in depth FBI investigation. Which includes such juicy titbits as $500,000 in gold bars found in the mansion, and reports of the scam netting its leaders a total of $50 million.

That video is quite the eye opener. Won’t surprise the regulars why I brought it here. :slight_smile:

Needless to say, if there isn’t a thread on the forums devoted to religious corruption directly, this thread will serve as the launch pad.

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In case anyone thinks this is ONLY a problem with fundamentalists … Riverside Church, although it’s “interdenominational”, is a prominent, lavishly-endowed church of largely wealthy parishoners that for example had a flamboyant gay man named Virgil Fox as its organist for many years, way back in the 70s. So it’s hardly fundamentalist. And yet …