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by throw1234651234 1027 days ago
"If you don’t think every business that makes it, and even more so for those that make it big, don’t have shady dealings to thank for getting them there, you should join one of these megachurches."

I was a contractor for one, so I had an insider look at the donation page optimization, dating apps, marriage counselling (90% of which involved a pastor in some way, including the stereotypical), seeing how people were pressured into donations, what interns were picked for, grandma being pressured into living her last $10 so that the IT team mostly there through connections could have $50-100/person lunches, etc.

And no - there is still a difference of outright misleading the most vulnerable, and I say this regardless of your views on religion.