(January 16, 2015 at 5:21 pm)goodwithoutgod Wrote:(January 16, 2015 at 5:16 pm)Faith No More Wrote: The lesson to be learned from all of this is that Christianity is a cash cow.
If I had the morals they tell me I do, I would be bigger than Joel Osteen.
A pyramid scheme based on fear, and founded on fiction. Money goes up, nothing of tangible, intrinsic value comes down...
Even the idea of religious charity has the opposite affect they claim it should. If churches cared about the poor, they would put pressure on government to invest and pressure on businesses to pay well. Charity is good, but it should be a last resort.
Same with business charity, it is also PR. All that money they get in tax breaks and tax write offs for donating, if they put it into better pay and benefits they would get that less dependency they say they want.
The way charity works now keeps people desperate, good PR for churches and businesses but lousy for workers.
Hitchens wrote a book about Mother Teresa, very scathing indictment.
