For a man of the cloth to steal from his congregation is beyond the pale. Shows he is not a man of God but a charlatan, no matter how he dressed it up. Someone like that can repent and find redemption in prison.
Since the latter 1960’s American churches have been betraying their congregations, country, and God. Quite distressing. And right out of the Communist play book.
And another widespread Book; too...
1 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture, declares[a] Yahweh.
2 Therefore[b] thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people,
You yourselves have scattered my flock, and you have driven them away, and you do not attend to them.
Look, I will punish you for the evil of your deeds, declares[c] Yahweh.