Whatever happened to "Thou shalt not steal?"

[Archae]

The more I read about this "church," the worse I saw.
Slavery, "beating the gay out of a guy," etc.

This isn't crazy.
It's corruption, pure and simple.

‘It’s God’s plan’: North Carolina church helped members commit unemployment fraud so they could keep tithing

An evangelical church already under investigation for luring foreign believers to the U.S., where they were kept as virtual slaves, has been accused of encouraging parishioners to file fraudulent unemployment claims so they could keep tithing.

According to an Associated Press investigation, the founder of the Word of Faith Fellowship reportedly encouraged church members to defraud the government so that they could keep filling her coffers at Sunday services, saying it was “God’s plan.”

In an interview, contractor Randy Fields related how he appealed to church founder Jane Whaley to allow him to scale back his tithing because his business was faltering, only to have the religious leader encourage him to file fraudulent unemployment claims in the names of his employees.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/its-gods-plan-north-carolina-church-helped-members-commit-unemployment-fraud-so-they-could-keep-tithing/

[DetlefK]

1. It's somewhere in the Bible: Lying is okay if it helps further Christianity.

Tax-evasion is just an elaborate form of lying, so it's okay if a church does it.

[safeinOhio]

2. It can be found in

The Gospel of John Galt.

[DiverDave]

3. Grifter logic

They know a good scam when they see one.