Collecting scads of money on the basis of a promise of glorious life after death would be fraud by a fish oil salesman or auto dealer. But most every church offers some kind of eternal life package. Some say you will enjoy heaven in your own personal body. And that is valid even if you have been blown up or eaten by a shark or badly rotten underground. Seems untidy to me but there is powerful voodoo involved.
But here is a problem. When you recognize that churches deny each other's claims you can smell something fishy. Each insists it has the one true golden road to the stars and that the others are cults and liars. But if churchly authority is valid for claims of eternal life it is probably valid for invalidating each other's claims and you end up with a big bowl of lies. Do you get a sniff of scam here?
And why has no consumer magazine covered this important matter for us? Will we or won't we have life after we croak and which cult is in charge?
I will offer you my opinion on this: I say it is just plain double dealing old style FRAUD and aught to be prosecuted as such.