That actually isn’t that far from the pitch they make. They rationalize that part as biblical evidence that you need to not be attached to your money. By then showing faith and sending your money to the church you have cleared the burden. The passage about the love of money being the root of all evil gets a similar treatment. It is the attachment to your money that is bad, not the money. They then point to some of the more palatable god will provide stuff. That is capped with a system of highlighting people who got sudden windfalls and you can blame the lack of prosperity on failings in personal virtue. The shame associated with that means that a lot of people will only talk about their successes, making the whole thing look like it works.
How the "prosperity gospel" convinces poor people to give everything to grifty millionaire preachers
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