BrianS

When you copied part of that story you left out a few key quotes. Here they are so that people will get the full effect of the story:

Oleson declined to call the church a cult but said "I guess in my mind I don't know of any faith that sanctioned his teachings."

Bushey had been living in the area about 11 years, Oleson said, did not have outside employment, and had built a chapel on the back of his home

"It was always a church, if you want to call it that," he said of Bushey's chapel.

He said investigators are trying to determine if the other two were defrauding Middlesworth and that future charges against the two are "a very real possibility." He said there is evidence that the woman was providing financial support to the church and to Lewis and her family.


So it appears that this guy who has no job builds a "chapel" on his property and calls himself a church. No known church or denomination has ordained or approved of this guy. The people in the area know it's not a real church. Then best of all, the real reason the death was not reported and the body buried was said by the police to be because the dead woman was financially supporting this guy. The idea of praying for the woman to be brought back to life was just a cover story for fraud. You can even see that in the 12 year old's testimony about needing to get jobs if the death was discovered. Face it, this is a story of greed and not religion. Don't get me wrong though, many people today and in the past have used religion for their own greed.