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Face it, som people need a belief system. Might as well make one benevolent from the beginning.

I am sitting in a Catholic wedding atm.

Bride and groom doing communion.

I'd pay good money to see the priest pour some of that wine on the floor and say, 'for our dead homies'

America II's religion will have to do that.
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Here's my brain storm: a religion based, in part, on financial responsibility.

Instead of just throwing your offering every week into the dark hole of church finances, you donate into... some sort of investment portfolio. You have a statement every month about what your money is doing, how much it earned, how much the church needed for expenses, etc.

Every week the sermon can have a small lecture on sound financial planning.

"The way to salvation is in saving."

It's win/win.

Doesn't even need America II for this to happen... can you imagine if every small church in every poor inner city neighborhood actually taught their congregation how to take care of themselves, instead of just telling them to put all their faith in the gods?
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Here's a church I could not only believe in, but want to lead.

I agree whole-heartedly that this would be a win for all.




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A financial religion? Hell, no.
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Could be a possible angle towards beginning our world domination.

I do insist on complete transparency, though. No backroom deals, no crazy inner circle crap.
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Malcolm wrote:A financial religion? Hell, no.
Maybe I'm being cynical, but aren't all religions financial?
Wadda mean? Other people can read this?!
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Post by Malcolm »

Yeah, but they try to cover that up.

I'm still not apt to sign up for a Ferengi-like faith any more than I want to join the others.
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Me either, but I can have some respect for it for being honest, and possibly even practical.

Depends on how much mumbo-jumbo gets piled on top of it.
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TPRJones wrote:Me either, but I can have some respect for it for being honest, and possibly even practical.

Depends on how much mumbo-jumbo gets piled on top of it.
And the better you do for your congregation, the more you educate them, the more money they have to invest on Sunday.
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Post by Malcolm »

can you imagine if every small church in every poor inner city neighborhood actually taught their congregation how to take care of themselves, instead of just telling them to put all their faith in the gods?

Therein lies the problem : religions aren't about telling people how to take care of or think for themselves, they seem to be about letting someone else do the thinking for you. I find that inherently distasteful.
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"Jesus sent me here to give you sound financial advice."
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GORDON wrote:"Jesus sent me here to give you sound financial advice."
I'm sure he preached nonstop back in the day about the Roman's version of the Roth IRA.
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If he had maybe he wouldn't have been killed.
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Bah. Martyrdom was cheap press coverage back then.
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Still is. Even so.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
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