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"The money raised by dubious methods was evidence of God’s blessing on the project, thereby sanctioning ever-more-dubious methods to raise ever more money."

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"This practice of preying on unwitting believers [by spinning narratives of impending catastrophe brought on by imagined anti-Christian forces] was central to the business model of the Moral Majority and its successor groups. ….

Little by little, [Cal] Thomas told me, the limits were pushed. The successes of the Moral Majority became self-justifying:"

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As Cal Thomas, a leading figure in the Moral Majority's rise, told Tim Albert, he'd go to fundraising meetings for these groups which would begin in prayer and end in exploitation. And then the religious hucksters would go to a bar and have a drink and laugh at the gullibility of their marks.

Alberta writes,

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In his new book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Tim Alberta, talks about the exploitative business model of the Moral Majority and its offshoots, which gin up fear and rage among people convinced the US is going to the dogs, and which profit from that fear and rage as dollars pour in.

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/12/donald-trump-and-the-implosion-of-the-american-evangelical-movement