• God has been talking personally to him; and
  
  
• he has an important message for YOU from GOD (even though you know that God has your address and phone number and could easily give you the message himself); and
  
  
• the message is that God wants you to do whatever this guy says;
  
  
• which includes giving this guy lots of money, time and energy to help him; and
  
  
• if you do this, wonderful things will happen to you, but mostly after you're dead; and
  
  
• God has told him all kinds of important stuff (but not how to cure AIDS, or cancer, or the common cold; or how to pick a stock that will double in a year; or how to pay off the national debt); and
  
  
• It's OK for him to be married to 30 or 40 women at the same time (but it's not OK for YOU); and
  
  
• You're not supposed to ask him any questions, but just trust him; and
  
  
• If you do everything he says, he'll tell you the secret password and handshake that will get you into Heaven; and
  
  
• Then, after you die and go to Heaven, you will organize and rule your own world and billions of your own spirit children (even though right now you can't even organize your own desk top, you hire somebody else to prepare your tax return and repair your carburetor, you have absolutely no interest in astronomy, quantum physics or advanced math, and you can't control the three kids you have);
  
  

- Richard Packham