My newsfeed trumpeted this morning that the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will not have to appear before a British magistrate to face fraud charges. From this news item surge issues that are analytically interesting, even without my having read the court documents.
I am fascinated with the idea that religious preaching and organization could potentially be judged by transactional standards of fraud, or not. In either case, we see a division of the social world into different segments where divergent standards of evaluation ostensibly hold.
