RE: Why Creationists don't realize the biblical Creation is just jewish mythology?
July 23, 2019 at 3:33 pm
Reason for megachurches is that religion is exempt from taxes so it is very easy for employees to steal money from it, so owner must oversee the business going on, they have to be present themselves and therefore can have only one church so the bigger the church the bigger the income.
While some other denominations, like Catholicism can have many churches because it's employees are bred from childhood not to mess around with the profits, and also because main profit for catholic church bosses (Vatican) doesn't come from donations in church but from taxes, also known as tithes, and other sources like when the Pope goes to visit some country he gets like 2 million dollars from that country.
While some other denominations, like Catholicism can have many churches because it's employees are bred from childhood not to mess around with the profits, and also because main profit for catholic church bosses (Vatican) doesn't come from donations in church but from taxes, also known as tithes, and other sources like when the Pope goes to visit some country he gets like 2 million dollars from that country.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
