If religion is fairy tale and isn't something to be even taken seriously, then...

[purplepurpose]

Why America prints dollar notes, which aren't supported by anything and buy real things for it. And people are like - ok, its real serious economy. Looks more like a fairy tale to me. Its unsustainable.

[Nine]

Because America isn't supposed to be taken seriously?

[Minimalist]

Go to any church and tell them you are putting "faith" in jesus in the collection plate.

See how fast they throw your ass out.

[Angrboda]

Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution grants the U.S. government the power "To coin Money, [and] regulate the Value thereof," so the value of U.S. currency is backed by the power and force of the United States government, including the world's most powerful military, and one of the world's most effective police forces.

But please, make more ludicrous arguments which do nothing but show how desperate you are for anything to justify your beliefs. Maybe if you had more faith, you wouldn't feel the need to do so.

[NoraBrimstone]

Wut?!

[JesusHChrist]

JesusHChrist, what a terrible argument.

[purplepurpose]

Go to any church and tell them you are putting "faith" in jesus in the collection plate.

See how fast they throw your ass out.

Giving money to the church is good. Its to sustain and grow movement. But economy, capitalism is a fairy tale since waves of unsupported paper money flooded the world.

[Darkstar]

Giving money to the church is good. Its to sustain and grow movement. But economy, capitalism is a fairy tale since waves of unsupported paper money flooded the world.

What do you mean by "unsupported"? They're legal tender.

[Cyberman]

Giving money to the church is good. Its to sustain and grow movement.

Exactly. Moving paedophile priests around takes a lot of money.

[Ryantology]

Giving money to the church is good. Its to sustain and grow movement. But economy, capitalism is a fairy tale since waves of unsupported paper money flooded the world.

What do you mean by "unsupported"? They're legal tender.

There is no such thing as intrinsic value in economics. Every possible medium of exchange imaginable, no matter what it is, will only ever be worth as much as other people think it is worth. Gold is just as intrinsically worthless as paper, even though it is a finite resource and paper is (practically) not. Gold is worth something only because we believe it is, and the only reason we believe it is worth something is because our primitive ancestors thought gold was really pretty.

I remember reading the Dark Tower novels, depicting the main character's world as one in which plain scrap paper was worth more than gold because while you could just find gold in the ground if you knew where to look, nobody knew how to make paper anymore, and it had more practical uses than gold in a collapsing post-industrial society.