Self-indulgence and they lost their bibles.
The "leader" will have suckered the new partner in by saying, God has forgiven our sins", so let's get some sinning going on here.
Then after being caught, the bozo will come on TV, crying and caterwalling, asking humans for their forgiveness, and goes right on stealing their dough again.
The television preachers are some of the worst thieving scum of the earth.