Unconventional Religion

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That's because Christians don't follow their own principle of putting morals before money - they just preach it.

Every Christian in the world forgot that you get a free pass into heaven when you live below the poverty line. Martin Luther King must feel pretty stupid now. We probably should have checked that part before we put it into our Bible.

According to your religion.

Show me the evidence.

And according to your religion, you do become a better person by giving stuff away.

According to my religion:
"If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing." 1 Corinthians 13:3

If it was objectively valuable then it'd be measurable - which it isn't.

I'm sorry, I meant human life is inherently valuable. And it's value is not open to opinion.

Your death is instrumental to some benefit to the murderer and according to the doctrine to self-sacrifice, that is sufficient reason for you to accept your death.

You haven't created a scenario where I can possibly imagine my death being the only solution to giving someone else the value of a life. I shouldn't have to give you a twenty if you need five bucks.

Wrong. Life isn't a zero-sum game where my benefit necessarily means someone else's loss. Humanity would never have been able to grow so much if that was the case.

Not my point.

Wrong. If you try to focus on the balance, all you'd accomplish is keeping humanity where it is.

The wealthy and the poor are balanced?

The way to make it grow is by making everyone richer than they are - including yourself.

If you mean that the individual should try to make everyone richer, that's perfectly fine. There's nothing wrong with seeking profit. But in your doing that, you are giving people money you could have used on yourself and you probably won't get it back.
If you mean that we should ALL become richer, that won't accomplish anything. Pay an oil tycoon and a gardener 20% of his or her income, and nothing changes.