Absolutely, but religion and money have always been pretty close bed mates.  The holy roller, evangelical, and fundamentalist strands of every religion since time immemorial have been the preferred vehicle for chicanery, fraud, scams, etc.  Religion is all about **belief** usually most popular in the face of adverse reality.  So it is not hard for the con man to use religion for his or her own purposes as has happened throughout recorded history and will probably keep happening.

That is not to say that religion is necessarily bad, but that those who put their faith in a personification of religion (church leader) need to watch their wallets and try to separate faith and belief from fiction.