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The church wants people to be afraid of god so that they need the church to show them the way. Oldest con going.
It really is the oldest scam and goes back much further than the christian god. The christian god has been around for only about 2000 years and was based on, copied from other, older gods/religions.
As near as I can tell, they all have in common some variation of the same threat - On your knees to the god or burn in hell forever. I'm not sure if all gods/religions required payment to get into their particular "heaven".
Not just oldest but most certainly the most successful and led directly to the invention of insurance and mafia type protection. As in, if it worked for those gods, it should work for this scam as well.