Friday, January 28, 2011

Money and religion

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350710/Former-RAF-officer-claims-brainwashed-gur-wins-800k-house-gave-away.html
 Why is it that the justice system seems reluctant to recompence those who are swindled by religions and registered charities?           Whilst the phenomenon of brainwashing is real, it's methods are usually probably little more complex than simple sex seduction as employed in advertising and sales industries.                   People who are supposedly spiritually conned should really be regarded as if they were misled by unethical financial advisors and recompensed appropriately.
 Unfortunately the system seems to side with the religious swindlers and although sympathetic words are often spoken by traditionalist church authorities for example in one case where Anglican parishioners were bullied by a grabbing, high living vicar, into donating their life savings to the vicar, a handsome man who used the money for luxury lifestyles including European resort holidays for himself and his glamorous wife.  Yet the complainants are not refunded and there is no industry compensation fund for victims.               
  These sad cases arise continually.   Religion can be viewed as little more than an elaborate front for embezzlement. The State which endorses it by not effectively prosecuting must be viewed as a co conspirator.
 Why is the administration often intertwined with quasi religious systems of embezzlement?   Who are the officials who make decisions to let the fraudsters off and who model government departments and quasi autonomous organizations on the religious rip off model of the parasitical parish?