Uganda's Extortionate Pentecostal Pastors

Uganda is suffering an epidemic of extortionate "health and wealth" Pentecostal pastors who compel congregants to tithe and require "donations" in exchange for the pastors praying for congregants' health and wealth problems. The bigger, more dire a congregant's problem, the bigger is the requisite "donation". This is no modern problem. It is akin to the scandalous sale of indulgences that characterized the pre-reformation Roman Catholic church in Europe. In defence of RC, they at least bequeathed to us the priceless artifacts and magnificent buildings that make today's Rome. Not so Uganda's pastors. Unlike the notorious Cardinal Woolsey who feigned humility riding around England on a donkey even as he kept multiple palaces (and a mistress or two), or the good Lord who would only ride a donkey, Uganda's pastors are competing to import Hummers worth hundred of thousands of dollars to cruise around Uganda's traffic and exhaust-fume filled roads. Time for a Ugandan reformation, anybody?