re: #117 Charles

Marketing is definitely a big part of it, but I think you’re missing the point if you don’t acknowledge that people like James Dobson and Pat Robertson really believe what they say. It’s not just cynical capitalist exploitation - their audience buys the products and listens to the radio shows because they see that sincerity.

They’ve spent a lifetime reading about the end-times in the Bible and warning other people that they could be just around the corner and the older they get the more they want to see it happen before they die. Just a theory.