"...otherwise they wouldn't be slopping over in cash and bling."
Somewhat akin to "...Prof Protsch, 65, a flamboyant figure with a fondness for gold watches, Porsches and Cuban cigars, was unable to work his own carbon-dating machine."?
Hmmmmmmmmm?
I can't tell now if the opulent 'televangelists' are emulating the anthropologists, or the other way around. Funny isn't it?
> I can't tell now if the opulent 'televangelists' are emulating the anthropologists, or the other way around. Funny isn't it?
The equivalent of televangelists have been around forever. Churches didn't collect gold for the greater glory of God... God doesn't need gold. And they sure as hell didn't do it to materially improve the lives of those forced to tithe.
Now if I could only figure out how to make rocket engineering as lucrative as Oral Roberts scam...