Why don’t consumer protection agencies in western cultures protect consumers from religious scams?
I mean, they protect consumers from every type of scam except religious scams, and religious scams are probably the most common type of scam and the probably most profitable. It’s almost as though consumer protection agencies have a “If you’re dumb enough to believe that nonsense, you deserve to get ripped off” attitude towards religious consumers; do you think this is how it is?
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"...they protect consumers from every type of scam except..." Not really; my parents have been scammed before.
you are only scammed if you take part in something as in buying or signing up in a organization etc. policing everything would be almost impossible without a complaint process from which consumers affected complain about be it one or a class action suit. So if you feel that one or more people or an organization has abused (you) or others by their actions (you) or a group of people can seek legal ways to have it stopped. Read the fine print because if there is fine print it means the person or persons have put a lot of thought into shoving it up your butt lol. However, lol it works both ways since the only way an occurrence can take place is by push come to shove, or for every action there is a reaction. you asked I replied pretty simple is it not. lol
They should. Peter Popoff has been exposed as a fraud yet he is still making millions using various religious scams. His latest is miracle water. The only problem is, you could warn everyone in the world that someone is a crook, but some people want to believe so bad, that no amount of evidence will sway their belief. I guess you can't outlaw stubborn ignorance.
It's an invisible product that's been around since the dawn of Man....it may be a scam but they have one hell of an advertisment campaign...
America is actually a nation where you can hire a team of ghostbusters to come to your house for a fee and remove something you can't even see...
YES. I've been following this story and it's pathetic no matter what kind of protections are put in law the Wall Street Criminals manage to rig the system. It's no secret Wall Street was the largest contributor to Obama's campaign.
Mainly because religions do not have to report financial transactions...if you are a registered church that is it...no one can investigate your financials unless you voluntarily submit...therefore no scam can be proven...Hell here in USA they could do little to nothing about molesting priests of the catholic church how are they supposed to do something about a the gullible giving their welfare checks to a televangelist? or a brick and mortar congregation?
You're talking about a country where atleast 30% of the people watch the SuperBowl for the commercials. What do you expect?
People have debates on which superbowl commercial was the best!
Which leads to my real answer... "People are stupid!"
I could say not enough personnel, but it's not like someone would have to investigate. If a religion is receiving money, it's for a false claim.
Religion IS a scam. You'd have to outlaw religion altogether... which violates the first amendment.
there's no such thing as a religious scam, all religion is a scam. if any money changes hands what are you gonna do? prove god doesn't exist?