… or so it seems.

I am no fan of direct selling or multi-tier marketing (examples: Amway, Mary Kay). I don’t like the aggressive selling or recruitment of customers to be salespeople, with the benefits accruing to those above them. Moreover, I don’t like how many of these companies often conflate religion with selling a product.

Probably the most egregious example to conflate religion with selling products was the rumours spread by Amway distributors to tie Procter & Gamble to satanic worship because of P & G’s (former) use of a logo featuring a man in the moon and 13 stars. I suspect that the distributors thought that this would play well among conservative Christian customers. For more background, see Logo controversy on Wikipedia. I regarded this effort to be defamation of P & G.

Now Amway is challenging the decision that they pay P & G nearly $20 million in legal expenses:
Amway claims P&G Satanic damages to be improper