RE: Is our planet is doomed?
December 27, 2009 at 4:08 am
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2009 at 4:12 am by TruthWorthy.)
Religion certainly benefits from the financial contributions of its followers and you're spot on to use the Vatican city as an example of the worlds richest . . .
You must realise though, that the pope doesn't own any of that wealth and even the top priest positions pay less than almost every normal occupation in the work force. Of course they have some non-financial fringe benefits such as travel, health, and retirement/living arrangements. But they don't get the bonuses you'd expect in an MLM corporation, or perhaps in scientology.
Followers are the most likely to be chasing recruits because that's on the same psychological plane as they themselves are. Those guys at the top aren't going to waste their educational skills chasing conversions any more than they'd be looking amongst their own clergy for potentially 'promotable' individuals.
The correlation between oppressed people and religious belief in comparison to the rich end of the social strata is in keeping the poor preoccupied with being honest and down to earth, humble, etc while any injustice that befalls the people can be assigned to "goda's" design; "The rich man in his palace, the poor man at his gate . . . ".
Religion always seems to favour the lower half of the monetary social strata and I do not think it's a coincidence!
You must realise though, that the pope doesn't own any of that wealth and even the top priest positions pay less than almost every normal occupation in the work force. Of course they have some non-financial fringe benefits such as travel, health, and retirement/living arrangements. But they don't get the bonuses you'd expect in an MLM corporation, or perhaps in scientology.
Followers are the most likely to be chasing recruits because that's on the same psychological plane as they themselves are. Those guys at the top aren't going to waste their educational skills chasing conversions any more than they'd be looking amongst their own clergy for potentially 'promotable' individuals.
The correlation between oppressed people and religious belief in comparison to the rich end of the social strata is in keeping the poor preoccupied with being honest and down to earth, humble, etc while any injustice that befalls the people can be assigned to "goda's" design; "The rich man in his palace, the poor man at his gate . . . ".
Religion always seems to favour the lower half of the monetary social strata and I do not think it's a coincidence!
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