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Darth Trad's avatar

Running an established religion is also very profitable. At that point it is only a matter of picking out potential franchisees with earning potential.

As organised religion is nothing but that; a franchise. You get given the rights to market the product in a given district. You have to expand your customer base to maximise profit, and at the same time make sure that other 'Franchisees for Jesus' lose their market appeal. At the end of the month, you send a cut of the take to corporate headquarters and keep enough to reward you and keep the operation going.

If you lose customers or meddle with the franchise's product mix you are in big fucking trouble. Over history we have seen that organised religions carry out 'crusades' or 'jihad' against anyone foolish enough to insist that.. say... their religion abandons accumulating wealth and influence and tries out some of the core beliefs that their founder wanted.

Religion corrupts; absolute religion corrupts absolutely.

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gffish's avatar

Billy Graham's taped conversations with President Richard Nixon prove that both of them were anti-Semitic.

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