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Edited on Thu Jul-15-04 02:49 AM by neebob
I just saw the most shameless and sickening example of it on The 700 Club. I didn't catch what Pat Robertson said leading into it, but it was done like one of those home-video segments on the Oprah show. This young couple had moved somewhere - California, I think - and found it more expensive than they had expected. Soon they had trouble paying their bills. Remembering Pat Robertson's teaching about the law of reciprocity, they continued their religious giving - "to CBN in particular" - and even made a conscious decision to increase it. This was the narration over footage of the wife writing checks.
Within weeks, the couple found their finances increasing. First came the "unexpected tax refunds and rebates." Then this guy contacted them "out of the blue" on the internet, saying he was looking for the exact year, make, model, and color of this particular muscle car that the couple just happened to have. Show footage of the flame orange whatever-it-was, with its black-primed front quarter panel - so you can imagine the fortune the dude was willing to pay for it - being loaded onto a flatbed truck. Then the wife found work as a freelance writer (wow! - you can almost hear the greenbacks spilling out of her wallet), and I forget what else.
The segment ended with the couple walking on some kind of beach, all happy after their finances doubled.
Next we see the Reverend Pat, hocking his Secrets of Financial Success package.
Ugh! If ever something ought to be against the law ...
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