Scam Religion: Difference between revisions

* <s>Scientology?</s> Nothing to see here. There's Fosterism in ''[[Stranger in A Strange Land]]''.

** Ironically, though Fosterism was founded by scam artists looking to get paid (and laid) by gullible people, their Supreme Bishops {{spoiler|become archangels when they die. Or perhaps resume archangelic identities they had prior to being born on Earth. It's not that clear.}}

* Hillman Hunter of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/And Another Thing|And Another Thing]]'' has one of these and is shocked when the apocalypse he's been preaching not only happens, but his cult is let off the planet in time, which (at least superficially) is just as he predicted.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]] novel ''The Crystal Bucephalus'', the Lazarus Intent was deliberately founded by a [[Con Man]] as a source of suckers who would bail him out when he finally got himself into real trouble.