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    Thugs In The Pulpit- Dr. Richard Dobbins


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    Financial abuse. Abusive pastors may manipulate wealthy contributors into making major donations or investing in schemes that will financially benefit themselves. Or, the pastors may borrow from parishioners and fail to repay them.

    Perhaps the most devastating cases of financial abuse involve pastors who directly persuade people or allow their names to be used to encourage people to invest money in pyramid schemes or other highly questionable business ventures. Wise pastors know that if an investment scheme seems too good to be true, it probably is.

    An even more despicable form of financial abuse is deceiving people to believe that a miraculous covenantal offering to the minister will bring to them an exponentially larger amount of money than they gave.

    This kind of clergy quackery is often seen on late-night television in markets where there are viewers desperate enough for money to make this a profitable venture for religious hucksters. Those who engage in this kind of religious racketeering are a disgrace to the ministry.

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    From one of the comments after the article:

    I would never ever go to a pastor for help. I'd sooner go to a secular therapist or 12 step support group or secular support group. I think churches have largely become filled with Pharisees and rote rituals. There is a huge separation between the clergy and the laity.


    In some circles the pastors are advised to keep themselves separated from their parishoners, like in a "familiarity breeds contempt" kind of way.

    It's sad that some people like the commenter above feels this way, but it happens way too often.

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    It happened down here where a pastor went to jail as members lost money due to him promoting some sort of financial scheme. From what I recall the pastor was not in this case going to profit but he did it for the church. Nonetheless the scheme was bad and many suffered. This is what wrong teaching on money does

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