You’ve been duped.

Western Christianity as we know it is a sick racket.

Sure, there are legitimate reasons to pool our money. Visiting the sick, the elderly, taking care of widows and orphans, and helping the poor. These are great reasons to expend resources and even employ people.

But the practice of showing up once or twice a week to “get fed” and to, “forsake not the assembling of ourselves together,” is the perpetuation of a racket as old as time itself. Preying upon the good intentions of naïve and ill-informed people to support a class of priests, clergy, “ministers” (or insert your term of choice here) is a sophisticated scam.

Now let me say right here that not all the perpetrators of this fraud are guilty of participating in it intentionally. Some, if not most, get involved for all the right reasons. They start out wanting to help people. They feel “called” to it. And many of them have legitimate giftings that are helpful to people. Some can teach, some can provoke and encourage, some legitimately hear from God and have genuine insight into His heart and purposes. › Continue reading