Those who want to be deceived by religion will be deceived. As for me, I hardly accept or believe in the wrong ideology of all these pastors who preach about how their members will be given to the church, not about how their members will grow financially.
Someone will hardly go to the church year to year, to listen to business ideas or get introduced to any business. What they will hear most in the church is how to give and be rich and expect God to open doors of blessings for that, without them knowing that God will bless the work of thy hands so long as the person is not lazy or doesn't kill. God is not a partial God, he blesses and reward who he wants to without minding whether the person is a Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or traditionalist.
I come from a society that's very religious to the point that most people could even believe their religious leaders over their doctors on health matters you could see people praying to get healing when they're supposed to visit the hospital for checkups, they allow those false prophets feed on their ignorance, and of course they end up paying huge sums of money to false prophets for healing and deliverance.
Nowadays, in my society religion is now a means of looting peoples funds due to false teachings by bad actors who claim to be called by God, they would never advice people on business or helping them grow financially but they'll mislead them on certain things by telling ignorant Church goers to sow seeds and tithes to get blessings from God, some people instead of working hard to expand their business or investing more on it would gather the little they've earned and give to so called pastors for prayers.
It's in African Christendom you will get to see most of the things you talked about happen. You will see a Christian believes, fears, and respects their pastor like a demigod. Any word that comes out from their pastor is final, they stick their faith and beliefs in that. Whatever happens thereafter will taken as God's will and purpose for his children.
That's why the Bible says in Hosea 4:6.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, thou shall be no priest to me: seeing thou has forgotten the law of God, I will also forget thy children
What surprises me is that people still fall for their wrong teachings till this point, someone would even go to the point of causing commotion amongst peaceful families, for instance telling a member that their parents or a family member are the reason why they're poor or not doing well in their business and still ask them to sow the little they have for God to bless them or for spiritual cleansing. This have been going on and many people have been victims to this especially innocent women who take their spirituality seriously, i think more awareness should be created to put an end to those false teachings by prophets that misleads people from investing in themselves, business and deceive them to sow seeds and forcefully pay tithes for their selfish interests.
Create an awareness of how church members are being misled by all these false prophets, you will see how you will be attacked by the same people you want to save and open their eyes to the reality of they have been misled by some church pastors, it time for them to think out of the box that, heaven helps those who help themselves. It is not everything that needs prayer, there are things one should do on their own like taking the proper medication, going to a hospital when an urgent matter arises on one's health, working and praying by oneself, and not relying on someone else prayer before they know that their prayers are answered.
