Just as religious leaders are free to preach their beliefs, so too are entrepreneurs free to share their insights and strategies.

I understand what you're saying, and how the 1% rule isn't supposed to be something you "follow" religiously, and I think you put it well with the quick rule of thumb, for my clients who look for cash flow, it is what I useI think it is just used as clickbait in this instance and that is the only purpose it serves for advertising.

If you have not read Anthony Robbins book awaken the giant within, you might want to think about doing that, and doing the written exercises in the book.

If this  was done religiously by all syndicators I suspect fully 50% or more of folks that are in syndication today would not be as they would not qualify.Instead what I saw from many syndicates is a simple docusgin questionnaire IE taking your word for it..

Hi Enoch, If you have not read "Awaken the Giant Within" by Tony Robbins, you might want to take some time and do that.

Mountains will be moved, fleet's built, a sleeping giant will awaken.....A great speech writer has been lost on you James!

If you are in a closed-end fund and relying on "pref", "Class A" or other distribution type you may be in for a rude awakening with some operators (again, the devil is in the details, aka the OM/PPM).

When there isn’t much of a message, the fallback is traditional values and leveraging a religious angle. 

One advantage China has over us in some developing countries is no religious or racial baggage.

In fact, as soon as someone wraps their program into religiousness, run away.