Comment by Paper on April 12, 2009 at 5:40pm

I've noticed these ad's floating around as well in the internet. People obviously don't know a scam when they see one.

If you fall for talking snakes and donkeys, chances are you'll fall for a snake oil salesman.

Comment by Cara Coleen on April 12, 2009 at 6:17pm

I know for a fact that Christians will ingest anything as long as it has a "Christian" label. I don't know, maybe it's like having the mark of the FDA on some product; but who's monitoring what gets that label? No one. Anyone can label anything "Christian" and it doesn't occur to these people that others are out to take advantage of them. I remember reading a book (whilst still Christian) called Captivating. Its purpose was to give women relationship advice, but it was HORRIBLE advice and I couldn't believe it was so popular! I think that was one of the moments when I was like, WTF is really happening here??

Comment by Morgan Matthew on April 12, 2009 at 6:33pm

Cara it would be interesting to see some of the examples/advice the book gave.

Comment by Cara Coleen on April 12, 2009 at 8:49pm

Alright... so there was a scenario in the book and it accompanied a bit of advice:

There's this married couple; the wife feels emotionally neglected (typical problem). Because this book it targeted at women, his side is not taken into account at all; it's assumed she's the victim of his insensitivity. She comes up with a plan, using her womanly wiles as bait. She sends the kids the grandma's and cooks a romantic, candle-lit dinner. Throughout their meal, she's very flirty (unbuttoning her shirt, playing footsie, etc...) and they end up making love. I'm not sure if it was the next night or the next week, but she sets it up the same. Right when they're about to disrobe, she stops him and says something to the effect of "Do you love my heart or my body? Until you're willing to be emotionally available, I won't be physically available" and they don't continue.

I don't remember if he came around. All I could think was how cruel it was to trick this guy, get him all hot and bothered, and then leave him hanging. I mean, maybe she should've planned their evening alone sooner; maybe he was emotionally unavailable because she hadn't been physically available; maybe the kids should've gone to grandma's more often...

Basically, a large portion of the book suggested women use sex as leverage. I was pissed for a looong time about it.

Comment by Rayven on April 13, 2009 at 2:22am

I do think they are more prone to fall for scams, if they have the words pray and blessed in it. My mother-in-law has spent tens of thousands of dollars on these scams. She actually has a stoarge shed full of boxes with the materials she has gotten from scams. What sets her off on these get rich quick schemes you may ask...almost a decade ago she recieved a letter in the mail saying that god wants to bless her life and that she should have been a millionaire when she was young, but the devil created road blocks and now as a devout believer she must take every chance she can in order to reap the riches that god has for her.

No lie, that's what it said. And according to my husband it's not the first time she has been sucked in by people telling her that. It's crazy. Everytime she blows money on these things she says god placed it on her heart that this was the way to make her riches here on Earth, and when they fail (like they always do) she just says that god had better plans for her, and that she can't understand all his plans but she knows he is doing what is best for her.

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