Avast, ye sons of weevils! Money hungering sow's are they! All to a man!
If it's "God's Word", and it's "His Word" and the "Word of God" is what's being taught....
They why the F**K am I or anyone else charging money for it as if it were mine?
It's not mine to sell.
Commerce. It's all commerce. Bid'ness.
You can't say "donation" without saying do nat and that's just what you need to not do - do NAT do dat, sell it.
It's a moral and ethical dilemma, solved by doing the only thing you can do if you want to charge $ for "God's Word" and that is to ignore any and all semblance of honesty and just wallow in the ensuing filth that will be the product of your actions. You will suffer, drown, you will look morally deformed and physically twisted in the end, confused and sadly unable to understand what you did wrong which was no less than trampling on the very thing you sold as sacred. Pretzel logic, hold the salt.
Doesn't even matter if it was or not - selling it as the holy thing, made sacred by the value of those who held it to be so - you're chit up a creek heading for a puddle.
They get better at it though - Jim Bakker's selling generators to the apocalypse now people. Geez, the scrawny little rodent can still look people in the eye - amazing. Osteen's got it down cold. Best show in town. John Lynn - well gawsh, who ever had a bad time hearing Lynn mug his way through his latest 10-step program? Grab a metal chair or a yard of rug and sit your fat a sz down, you paid good money to hear this styro fomic puffed blow hard, so enjoy the blow.