Religion: God's Income

Richest and most inexplicable cultist in the U. S. is Major J. ("Father") Divine, "God" to many a blackamoor and moody white in New York's Harlem and elsewhere. Slick little Father Divine lives well, maintains a Rolls-Royce, flies about in an airplane, provides abundant low-price meals to his followers. But he keeps no books, has never paid an income tax. Leaving it to his followers to assert blandly, that he "manifests" money out of nothing, the black "God" has seemed to take poker-faced delight in evading questions about his income. Since he has...

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