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Lately, however, Humbard's evangelical empire has been having some mammon troubles. Officials in six states have banned further sale of the securities sold by the cathedral because they were not properly registered. Last month Ohio commerce regulators won a temporary restraining order prohibiting him from selling securities, from encouraging investors not to redeem their holdings or from disposing of cathedral assets. They accused the cathedral of "unconscionable sales methods" in marketing securities, claiming that its salesmen failed to tell prospective investors that the church is in financial trouble. In addition, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked...
...been scoffed at for a nation of money-lovers, we the greatest idealists in politics since the French Revolution. The warring powers have said, scornfully or sorrowfully, that we have forgotten our ancient tradition of liberty and of strength, bending our knees in idolatry to the false gods of Mammon. They have said we no longer remember how the victorious fight. But now that we have conquered our hesitancy, now that we have conquered the vain idealism of peace, we will go into war as we have always gone into war: seeking no end but the utmost end, stopping...
...Bible as their proof text. They demand a strictly communal life as practiced by the early Christians according to the Book of Acts ("they held everything in common"). They avoid work except as it relates to their own communes, lest their members be forced to choose between God and mammon. Yet they badger businessmen to support them with handouts of money and supplies, while raging against a sinful America and proclaiming its-and the world's-imminent doom. In their most apocalyptic moments, they dress in red sackcloth (a sign of warning), daub themselves with ashes, put yokes around...
...years it developed in sophistication from "Mickey Mouse" to "Fantasia" suggested to Mr. Feild that, given 20 more years, it might have been possible to animate Dante. But the comparative economy killed animation. Like stainglass, Mr. Feild believes it will be a lost art form until our culture forgoes Mammon...
...cannot serve God and mammon.?Jesus...