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Two trends I see in the local Bible churches (& Southern Baptist): raw/uncooked foods & MLM nutritional pills?

Since coming to the U.S. another trend I keep finding in various Bible churches and especially the big Southern Baptist "mega-church" in my area: After the services there are many pushy "salespeople" pushing "miracle cures" to anyone who has health problems. I visited my neighbor's church and he said before we went inside: "If you know anybody with cancer, they should think twice before asking anybody here for prayer because once the word gets around, the patient will be bombarded with sales brochures and testimonials about "miracle cures" of various nutritional supplement pills which are sold by a MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) networks. And an accompanying trend at these churches seems to be an interesting "everybody knows that..." factoid which is focused around the alleged health and curative advantages of eating raw/uncooked foods. [When I tried to explain to a lady that cooking actually releases three times the carotene in a raw carrot -- but she just gave me a blank look.] Friends have described to me similar trends at the conservative Evangelical churches in their respective cities. I'm just curious why these seem to be conservative-church related trends. IS IT A PART OF A GENERAL SKEPTICISM TOWARD CONVENTIONAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE?

Public Comments

1. Keep in mind that churches are large collections of people who share a common interest and trust each other more than they trust the general public. That makes them potentially a very lucrative target for all kinds of marketing schemes, especially MLM schemes, which heavily depend upon the networks of trust built in churches to facilitate sales. While many marketing schemes are legitimate, it's also a haven for scams of all sorts, since they're not advertising on the general market, and the trust means that often people will buy on the trust of the person doing the selling without bothering to critically evaluate the product being sold. As a result, there are lots of dodgy and bogus products that have thriving markets in churches.
2. yes, but it could also be misunderstanding. there is apparently a treatment that can "starve the cancer" and now people think they can do anything with alternative medicine. I'm a raw foodist cause I can't cook and saves me time.