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The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing has been claiming chlorine dioxide is a "miracle cure".
For years it has sold the industrial bleach as Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), stating it can cure things like autism, acne, cancer, diabetes and now COVID-19.
[...] Following an investigation [...] last week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) today announced it had issued 12 infringement notices totalling $151,200 to MMS Australia for alleged unlawful advertising of Miracle Mineral Solution and other medicines.
... still a long way to injecting it, right? But maybe that's for The Genesis III Church of Health and Healing
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @02:44AM (4 children)
But universities also do research and solve technical problems, justifying their tax exempt status by contributing to the common. What tax-exempt religion does that? (admittedly, some churches are involved in service, which can be a good thing).
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 14 2020, @05:48AM (3 children)
Now, there's some food for thought. It would be very interesting to create some sort of scale on which to judge the good that churches actually do. You would need some kind of access to their internal decision making to even start to compare them.
I've seen churches that really don't seem to benefit anyone outside their closed little clique. Other churches contribute quite a lot, to members and nonmembers alike. There really ought to be a method to rank churches like we rank charities.
"The Church of the Almighty Dollar has taken in 17.6 million dollars this year. Funds were distributed to the parson's wages and bonuses, 10 mil, and to purchase a new Mercedes, 40,000, parsonage improvements, 1.6 mil, new songbooks, bibles, choir wardrobe, .25 mil, contract for grounds maintenance, .9 mil, disbursements to the needy, $5,000, with the balance drawing interest in certificates of deposit, all in the preacher's name."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @08:00AM
Make them file 990s, make all donors eligible to check their financials, and make all members eligible to check their other corporate documents. Just like any other charity. Its not a lot, but is literally better than nothing.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday May 14 2020, @10:51AM (1 child)
While this would be an improvement, I'm not sure that really solves the problem.
For instance, Prosperity Gospel is a longstanding con, where even if that information is publicly available there's a good chance that the rubes won't look at it (because seeking outside information would be doubting your faith, which is a sign of Satan, dontcha know), won't believe what it says (It's a big Satanic government conspiracy against the pure and holy and blessed preacher, dontcha know), and won't care even if they do believe it (because if you give enough money to the con-artist God will make your life perfect, dontcha know).
Or in this case, my understanding is that this "church" has basically no members who aren't part of the inner clique that's profiting from the sale of this stuff. So it's not really a church at all, it's a business partnership and should have been treated as such from the beginning but won't be because it's emblazoned itself with a cross.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @03:47AM
Well people have freedom to get conned. Money is free speech after all. But making this information public will at least allow a nominal percentage of people to make informed decisions, and a competition among the churches.