A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt As It Built A Family Empire Including A Pot Farm, A Bank And An Airline

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Deeply, deeply disturbing. Also, not the least bit surprising.

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So many naive gullible Americans. It is difficult to feel sorry for them.

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We do not understand the money is really for Jesus. :confounded:
Onward Christian soldiers.

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I remember when Obamacare was coming onto effect that a bunch of these “health care sharing ministries” popped up as a way to get around the requirements of Obamacare. This seems to be one of them, as this version seems to have been founded in 2014.

I remember that analysts said they were either scams, or if not a scam, doomed to fail, because the business model doesn’t work.

I suspect the large majority are scams. I have no sympathy, though, because most of the people who signed up actually came looking for the “ministry,” and they were trying to evade Obamacare’s requirements. They got what they were looking for. And then for some of them, it blew up in their faces.

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“Nobody’s here to not make money,” Fabris said, noting that it was a line from the Gospel passage where Jesus delivers his Sermon on the Mount of Money.

They’re “christians” in the same way that an arsonist is a firefighter.

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Feel sorry for them? I laugh at their gullibility.

I hope they get fleeced over and over and over until they finally figure out what a fucking long con religion is. Fuck 'em if they don’t.

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My personal favorite is trolling men’s rooms for dick, for Jesus of course.

Then bleating on and on how homosexuality is an abomination.

The delusion is strong with this one.

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Another great investigative report from ProPublica! I really appreciate the depth they go to, and the details in their publications. And I am happy that TPM is providing them here!

Has George Santos listed Liberty HealthShare in his C.V.?

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It should be part of the general media stylebook to call people such as the Beers “self-described Christians” or some equivalent.

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A bit of scriptural slight of hand here, conceding “wise as serpents” to the hustlers, condemning “innocent as doves” to the hustled. Mt. 10:16

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This is a famous quotation:
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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How close would $400 a month come to covering all the members’ bills, were the organization simply run honestly? Strip away the trappings of organized crime, corporate excess and shareholder-first profit motive. Cap the executive salaries at $200,000 a year. How much would the premium cost? How many members would it take to not be bankrupted by rare, expensive things like hemophilia? And common, expensive things like type 2 diabetes?

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Please notice how rich Christian Con Artists can “regulate” Sen. Charles Grassley, et alia, and the prosecutors in Ohio. They should have been shut down, prosecuted, and jailed years ago. Prosecutors are clearly chicken-sh•t.

Do the Christian Rubes who disliked ObamaCare deserve comeuppance? Maybe. But the bad guys deserve the most, which doesn’t seem to happen very often with white-collar crime, Xtian or not.

I’m surprised that some upset, now bankrupt rube with 2nd Amendment righteousness hasn’t rectified.

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When I drove truck a rule of thumb was: If a company said “drivers come first” run in the other direction.

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I keep seeing reports that fewer young people are falling for the scam that is organized religion. I hope that’s the case, because that alone gives me hope. Meanwhile, it looks like it’s going to take a while for the current rise in temperature of the christofascists to burn through. Banning books because they refer to true facts that are observable all around us, based on, wait for it… a BOOK! with accounts of all the world’s life forms in a single wood boat and people living to be 600 years old and all sorts of other fun stuff that sounds really likely.

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Overheard in Michigan, “I don’t like him, but he’s a good Christian.”

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(Submitted with only partial apologies to David Allen Coe),…
… “If that ain’t MAGA, I’ll kiss your ass”

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Of course they are Christians. Swindling people out of their money and leaving the sick sick and destitute is exactly what Jesus would have done. /s

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So they can be accused of being anti-christian? I hear you, but I think the Christian denominations have to do this. I advocate for doing this frankly, I think that is what is driving people away from Christianity in this country. The brand of Christian you hear the most about is absolutely repellent, and the mainstream denominations have done nothing to push back on having their name drug through the mud. I get trying to be ecumenical, but in this case they’re yielding to the “you must tolerate my intolerance” argument.

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There are so many, are we talking Senator Wide $tance (R)Idaho?

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