Reply #21: Secular or not, that would seem to be the mentality MLMs draw. [View All]

Though it is interesting that, as much religious hammering as they supposedly do, anybody secular would find any comfort operating within the ones who use it. I know some don't -- Amway seems to, though, and some of the Amway offshoots (they split off several divisions a few years ago, apparently, for reasons I don't know in detail, perhaps just to give them 'clean' names since most people I know cringe when they hear the word Amway). I'd assume since it's been successful for them, some of the 'AmWannabes' probably hit it hard, too.

Kills me that anything that dirty would use religious imagery, whether successful or not. Guys like Asimov and Harlan Ellison were right, I guess -- if you put a cross and a picture of a gray-bearded guy in white robes on a bottle of arsenic, some people would drink it if they were told it was 'the host.'