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  If you’re that stupid, you deserve to be swindled.

The victims included mentally compromised people, the elderly, people who later committed suicide, etc.

It's hard for me not think this sort of behavior is anything but criminal.

If someone sells a good or service, knowing they will fail to deliver, they're committing fraud. Whether one believes in prayer or not should not apply in the judgment.

> If you’re that stupid, you deserve to be swindled.

Absolutely not. Laws should protect the vulnerable...no matter how stupid they are.

My point is that people are saying the fraudulent aspect of his crime is that he didn’t actually pray. It wouldn’t have made a difference to their lives. Churches swindle millions of people out of billions of dollars annually.

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