Pink Truth
I have always maintained that no one can save anyone from themselves if they do not want to be saved. Mary Kay Ash, the person, was not a so-called Christian in the way it is bandied about here and the company she founded was not a Christian company.
It was a cosmetics and skincare manufacturing business built on a specific marketing plan and her ultimate success was when MARY KAY CORP. went public and hit the bigtime about 30 years ago... give or take.
Then she got old and her son took it over. He leveraged the company into massive debt to take it private and morphed it into some sort of religious answer to the mystery of life using makeup as the means to salvation. Of course, this salvation also included the earthly rewards of valuable gifts and prizes and the chance at a lifestyle enjoyed by those other rich folks who did not use religion to attain that good life.
It's always fun to browse through Mary Kay NSD websites and see what constitutes “money management” training. Naturally, when I came across the "Fall Retreat Money Management Slides" on NSD Linda Toupin's website, I was interested. "Wow, an NSD that’s actually teaching her National Area how to avoid debt? How nifty is that?” At least, that's what I thought until I read the very first slide: