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These stories are hard to process because there appears to be such blatant abuse, exploitation, and stupidity.

> A couple of years later, the Federal Communications Commission reportedly came close to introducing a "truth-in-advertising" clause for religious solicitations. This would have meant that any claims of boosting finances or curing disease would have to be verifiable, and Ole took various trips to Washington to lobby for it.

The thing that's easily forgotten is that any sufficiently-advanced con is indistinguishable from religion.