It's one thing to be anti-religion or whatever; but the problem is that some of the smartest/best people were and are devout believers. You're gonna tell me that MLK Jr is a pos idiot? Or a scammer scamming the most vulnerable because he has no conscience? So before you claw back your statement, i'll just say that you're painting with such a broad stroke that your statements/views are meaningless at best and i'll just leave it at best.
@iou never said anything that suggested "anti-religion" and only commented about gullibility. The best place to get "God told me to do it" working was a defence will be in a Church.
Isaac Newton comes up with his Laws of Motion which are very good, and figures out a bunch about Optics, but he was also working really hard on Alchemy (which is nonsense as it turns out) and trying to make the Bible's timeline work (forget Genesis, even much later stuff contradicts historical records, but if God wrote it how can it be wrong?).
> "I took your money and used it to remodel my house because god told me to"
Most of these priests/presidential candidate manage to wrap these statements in "if you give a little my friend upstairs will notice your generosity and give you big in return". A lot of desperate (and yeah, gullible) people eat that shit up...
It's quite interesting how in his "pitch video" (and presumably in his defense now) he disavows any responsibility or initiative of his own and puts all of it on "god".
Presumably he knows that this will appeal to the emotions and sense of morality of his congregation rather than their financially rational minds which may be sceptical of "crypto".
It also "nicely" intertwines the apocalyptical tendencies of crypto with the apocalyptical tendencies of certain Christian denominations.
All in all a despicable human being who obviously had no moral qualms, abusing the massive trust his followers had in him. Yes they probably were more than just a bit naive, but history shows that there is a scam out there for any of us.
Edit: he claims he was in prison for stealing cars and, if that's true, at least he is demonstrating a consistent character and just improved his methods over the year. Theft is indeed easier to pull off if the victims thank you for it instead of calling the police.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 33.2 ms ] threadThe "smartest/best" can be gullible too.
Isaac Newton comes up with his Laws of Motion which are very good, and figures out a bunch about Optics, but he was also working really hard on Alchemy (which is nonsense as it turns out) and trying to make the Bible's timeline work (forget Genesis, even much later stuff contradicts historical records, but if God wrote it how can it be wrong?).
Most of these priests/presidential candidate manage to wrap these statements in "if you give a little my friend upstairs will notice your generosity and give you big in return". A lot of desperate (and yeah, gullible) people eat that shit up...
Presumably he knows that this will appeal to the emotions and sense of morality of his congregation rather than their financially rational minds which may be sceptical of "crypto".
It also "nicely" intertwines the apocalyptical tendencies of crypto with the apocalyptical tendencies of certain Christian denominations.
All in all a despicable human being who obviously had no moral qualms, abusing the massive trust his followers had in him. Yes they probably were more than just a bit naive, but history shows that there is a scam out there for any of us.
Edit: he claims he was in prison for stealing cars and, if that's true, at least he is demonstrating a consistent character and just improved his methods over the year. Theft is indeed easier to pull off if the victims thank you for it instead of calling the police.