Liberals don't believe in God/Heaven, so their goal is to create paradise here on Earth .. with other people's money. If there's anything worse than a true believer, it's a secular utopian.
What was in it for the hoaxers? Money? Not that I can see. T'eo is just a poor college student. So they went to great lengths just to embarrass him? Why? Did he go to the funeral? Did he see a body? If he didn't go, did he at least talk to her parents on the phone? Did the hoaxers get older...