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June 9, 2005
Mainstream Baptist Discusses Amway
By QBlog in Miscellaneous
According to his blog (Mainstream Baptist), Bruce Prescott is the host of "Religious Talk," a local radio show, and president of the Oklahoma Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS, pronounced Oz-Cuss). Last month he posted about "Amway's Victims" and pointed out an article by Bill Berkowitz that explored the story of former Emerald Eric Scheibeler.
What's interesting to me is that Prescott is publicly stating that Amway is a pyramid scheme. But he doesn't stop there, he continues by calling out "fundamentalist ministers."
I suspected that Amway was a pyramid scheme with a lot of hapless victims. Too many fundamentalist ministers that I knew were so heavily invested and so blindly committed to it that it was impossible for them to make objective judgments about it.
I often find that people either vigorously support or vehemently oppose the Amway/Quixtar business. However, I don't often find public figures (locally or nationally) who speak so definitively about the business and I take notice when they do.
Comments
Wow.
What an article by Mr. Berkowitz.
Of course, it's all lies, or a left-wing conspiricy.
After all, how could any company as big as Amway do anything illegal?
I've decided that "left-wing conspiracy" is a contradiction in terms.
PW
I'm happy to see public figures speak out about AmQuix, as well as Bloggers. I believe it shows the beginning of the end of Amway/Quixtar as we know it. A big part of keeping the AmQuix scam going was controlling information flow. Cut off t.v., radio and newspapers and listen to only AmQuix tapes and read AmQuix approved books. But the internet allows for information to do an "end around" and get to the people anyway.
Hopefully one day, we will be able to say, "The internet killed the e-commerce business." The first thing more and more people do when they want to research something is Google it. Others go to "trusted" sources to see if there is an opinion, and I'm sure many trust Mr. Prescott. And the more people read sites like QuixtarBlog and "Amway's Victims," the more difficult it will for AmQuix to recruit new victims.
REgarding the public figures not speaking against it, I don't know. But I'm personally embarassed to talk to my non-quixtar friends about it. It's like my dark secret.
Posted by: Imran Aziz | June 9, 2005 5:20 AM