People go to church IN HOPE of getting their prayers answered. People who go to restaurants get an immediate benefit. Put it this way, how many people would go to restaurant if the owner says....pay me when you come in and I might give you a meal? Or you pay for chicken and get pork because the chef felt you should have pork?
Your arguments make absolutely no sense in this case. The thread was based on someone working under the guise of the Christian religion. the dude is preaching from the new testament on a weekly basis. You can't take Jesus out of the argument. The Christian religion was never supposed to be a multi-billion dollar business. You can pretend otherwise, but you be would wrong.
As for your lottery comment , people clown folks all the time about playing the lottery, just like people clown folks for going to church.
If it is that important to you, what you getting mad about? Go give your money and pray all you want.
The fact that you getting so annoyed by this implies you liked being pimped...have fun, be happy, and pray all you want.