The divine economy: how religions compete for wealth, power, and people

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@BirthingBetterSkills 6 ай бұрын

I can remember Mit Romney when he ran for US President say that he gladly tithed his Mormon Church 15% of his income every year but did everything he could to avoid paying taxes! I was outraged.

@NJIT22 6 ай бұрын

You misunderstood what he was trying to say. He was trying to point out how dysfunctional and complicated our tax laws were and was advocating for reform

@BirthingBetterSkills 6 ай бұрын

@@NJIT22 No. He was saying that he gladly would give (and it's mandatory) 15% of his income to his church and he will do everything he can to avoid paying taxes in our Constitutional Democratic Republic. I grew up in the Great American Middle Class when Corporations and wealthy paid 70-90% in taxes. The Great Global Restructuring was designed to aggregate $ upwards .. and one way was to reduce INCOME of all sorts to our governing structures. How would the Mormon church do if people didn't pay that 15%?

@aginginarollercoaster5427 6 ай бұрын

In Indonesia the biggest Islam organization just received a concession over mineral mining from the President Jokowi.

@riz-19-p1y 6 ай бұрын

Indeed this news is very devastating! Islamic organizations who claim to be the voice of the masses should democratise the economy but they instead accumulate the capital on behalf of “democratising the dirty money” for the religious elites!

@Rose-jh4vs 6 ай бұрын

And the minister said it is better than read of their funding proposals 😮

@venugopaln6999 6 ай бұрын

Lack of effective political governance increasing religiosity

@user-wr4yl7tx3w 6 ай бұрын

Intro is too long

@MarkVBos 5 ай бұрын

The Catholic Church has continuously operated for 2000 years. Funded by donations, and investing in the most unprofitable segments (building schools, hospitals, orphanages, old-person homes, feeding the poor, etc, all over the world) to the benefit of so many religious and non-religious people and communities, of which very few have ever returned the favour. As a business, it invests in all the worst business. As a religion, it’s simply loving God and loving thy neighbour (everybody), through the redeeming sacrifice of Jesus as our source of faith, hope, and charity. This core truth and goodness of the church has not changed in 2000 years - despite ever present internal and external attacks that continue to modern times.

@Globularmotif 5 ай бұрын

You should read 'The Missionary Position' by Christopher Hitchens.