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May I add my take on The Great Mormon Money Machine: The Big Payoff, dear FRiend?

Using the power of your “Afterlife Insurance Company”:

You demand a whopping ten percent of each client’s income for their policy premiums and If the money isn't paid, the client can't partake of the ordinances which are the ticket to Heaven...

You publicly humiliate anyone who questions you or fails to pay. This means that if a client publicly questions the "leaders and doctrines" the client is considered apostate and summoned to a "court of Love" wherein said client may be excomunicated and shamed before client's fellow clients. This power is so great that...

You can even ban clients from attending things like family weddings! A client cannot enter the temple where the wedding is held without a special "pass" that is granted to you only if you conform to all the requirements, including full payment of bills and obeying the laws that require you to abstain from coffee, tea, tobacco and liquor and in some cases, caffinated sodas. the absurd irony is...

You don’t have to prove to anyone that your Afterlife Insurance Company actually works, True so...

You are worry free because, in this business, all your disillusioned customers are dead. HOWEVER, there is a caveat that if after death, the client accepts ordinances such as baptism, sealing, and confirmation as a member of the Great Mormon Money Machine, client MAY be allowed to enter the top tier of Heaven with all the other faithful clients. Therefore...

You never pay off a single claim (although you literally promised the Universe). Still waiting for word from the afterlife on whether you pay off the dead! Then, incredibly...

You reverse the Burden of Proof—If others don’t magically know you’re right—they’re wrong! Opponents must PROVE to the satisfaction of other clients and the corporate officers that YOU actually were NOT visited by two Heavenly personages who told you all the other Insurance companies were fraudulent. Now...

You destroy rational thought with the delusion that deeply feeling it’s true is all that matters. Logic is unimportant, study is unimportant, what COUNTS is the "burning in the bosom" and the FEELING that this is the only honest Insurance company. Soon...

You addict clients so forcefully to your fantasy they fear they can’t live without it! and they will gladly give up ties to their mates, sons, daughters, parents, grandparents if these relatives don't accept the TRUTH of the COMPANY. From all this...

You urge mass lying (re: the Emperor’s New Clothes) by saying “All worthy people will know it’s true.” "I don't HAVE to listen to your proofs, I KNOW!"

You now multiply this gullibility with the following arsenal of business weapons —

You exploit your very clients as free labor to run your business for you, even on Sundays. Even requiring your clients to clean the toilets in your buildings free of charge as evidence of their "worthiness" and loyalty.

You command a massive volunteer sales force that must actually pay its own expenses. And, require that other clients provide room and board, free of charge for these "salepersons." (Heard this is new policy)

You endure almost no outside government interference and with limited regulation and...

You have no inner accountability either, such as member or stockholder oversight! the clients BETTER not demand an accounting if they know what's good for them! Better yet...

You run a company that pays no taxes, but instead enjoys tax-subsidized dues. Then for comfort...

You answer only to your inside buddies for your personal pay and perks! The IRS won't be able to touch you! Hahaha! But not stopping there...

You find abundant opportunities for nepotism and cronyism even outside the firm, because...

You freely raise large venture capital funds for unrelated business schemes. And all this time...

You enjoy total administrative, financial and clubhouse secrecy. You are, a "protected corporation". Now, Jaded by your aloof stature...

You callously use emotional, social and spiritual extortion as powerful revenue tactics. Pay up, or no ticket to Heaven! Coldly...

You hold hostage a family’s togetherness in the hereafter, plus their closeness here. And amazingly...

You even intimidate your clients literally down to their underwear. BUT, the underwear will magically PROTECT clients from all kinds of HARM! Then for good measure...

You claim the right to acquire all their worldly possessions too! Now, dear client, you will reap unknown heaps of blessings if you leave your estate to the Machine instead of your family! Your disrespect is so deep that...

You require them to make dour commitments, before even telling them what they’re agreeing to! MILK BEFORE MEAT is for your OWN GOOD! Client can't possible understand all the wonderful secrets until I SAY client can! Yet... You still passionately kindle their hero worship with great theatrical skill, because, as Matthew put it...

"You wear charming sheep’s clothing that makes False Prophets seem so totally respectable." Finally...

You exercise massive social, political and economic clout. Looking to add even MORE political power now. And the proverbial “fruits” abound —

You and your cohorts rule vast empires wielding your colossal power and wealth!

This Great Mormon Money Machine is perfect

(It is) just Lies, Dollars and Sanctimony

False prophets are “like those who administer a deadly drug in sweet wine, which he who is ignorant of does greedily take, with a fatal pleasure leading to his own death.” Ignatius of Antioch