Which is more profitable, religion or banking?
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Well....my house is a perfect case-study.  My wife is a financial planner/CPA....I'm a Priest.\n\nLast year I made $14,550.00\n\nShe made roughly twenty-times that amount.\n\nYou do the math.
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Christianity is a pick and choose religion.
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Creflo Dollar is a con man. Religion is the ultimate con, it is government protected, tax free and the product they sell doesn't have to be delivered until you reach a place that doesn't exist. No wonder so many people jump on this manured money wagon. He is not to be believed about anything.
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religion is given as the reason but greed is behind most of them
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The main religion of modern China is MONEY! Seriously, the major religions are Buddhism & Taoism, Islam and Christianity.
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I also think there is a direct link between prosperity and religion. I live in South America (mostly catholic) and many countries in this part of the world are struggling very hard, too much poverty and illiteracy. Same with Islamic countries. The more ignorant and dependent you remain, the poorer you will be. No offense meant. A good religion is that one that allows you freedom of thought.
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What does being a Vegan have to do with financial services? \n\nIf you do not want to invest in companies that sell meat then a finacial advisor can do that for you.\n\nI'm not sure what banking or insurance have to do with meat though.
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Knowledge might be more profitable than wealth or money, because you can share your knowledge with an infinite number of people (as I do with my blog below).\n\nHowever, if you have a five-dollar bill, you can only give it to one person.\n\nThis is why it is said that intellectual capital is fast becoming MORE powerful and valuable than financial capital.
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I don't know, but I don't like it. Some companies (such as like the president of this United States) thinks if they "play on" the Christian faith they can make more money (get more support in the case of the pres) \n\nSad and sickening, IMO.
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In it's most basic form, a bank is started by investors who put money into the business.  Using this money, the bank makes loans and charges interest so they get back the money they lend and more.  Dividends can then be paid to the investors.  All the services of a bank are used to make more money.  For instance, you open a savings account and put money in the bank.  The bank pays you, say, 2% interest on your money.  The bank can now lend your money out for, say, 10% interest so they make money on your money.  This was a good question.
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Money is the root to all evil. They worship money more than God.
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The LOVE of money is the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10). Money is a good thing. With money you can feed the poor, you can cure sickness, you can learn new things.\n\nThere's nothing wrong with money until you make it the  god of your life.
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Do what scientology (lower case s not captial S) did and pay off some tax officials. Then the Fed's recognize you as a religion and you pay no taxes.\n\nReal Answer --A religion is what you believe. It becomes religion when you believe it. You can have a following of people believing the same thing and then have organized religion.
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Both. Ultimately religion is a tool in the hands of man. Like any other tool it can be used for good or bad. Even the abscene of religion as in Athiests is a sort of religion on it's own. You see athiest activists wasting taxpayer money on really trivial things such as a courthouse having a copy of the Ten commandments or a phrase in a Boy Scout handbook. \n\nSo fanaticism is independent of religion. You can find it in the Linux vrs Windoze wars. You can find it between programmers argueing over which computer language is best. Religion does not cause fanaticism. Man does. Religion is just a common expression of it. \n\nAs a positive, religions give people a common idenity that often motivates them to help total strangers. Without chruches leading the way in helping the poor there would likely be little or no social services at all today. The Western world is a literate culture because of religion. It was religious scholars who preserved the languages during the dark ages and transcribed the books that allow us a peak into history before those times. It was religious scholars who often document history in the ancient world. \n\nReligion often saves lives. Even if you assume it is a purely placebo affect people every day find a new life and a constructive life through religious transformations. Some stay at it, others don't. But while they are "saved" they live a constructive life and attempt to put away destructive habits. \n\nIt is the promise of an afterlife which shapes many people into unselfish people. After they've tried it they often do it naturally but were there no religion society would become very brutish in a hurry. To see an example one merely needs to look into nations with no religion or religions which do not promote charity and other benificial actions toward society. Rome for example before Christianity was an empire built on strength. Weakness was not tolerated and the weak were expected to commit suicide in shame. It was a society with little pity and little ambition except personal glory and the glory of kin and clan. Human life had little value and the end of it was generally seen as entertainment. \n\nHitler was a good example of Athiesm in practice. The same with Stalin. Many athiests have good intentions and mean well for their fellows, however base human nature will always leave them in the minority. It is very difficult to practice ulteristic motives in a society that does not value them. Religion gives society a reason to value those motives. To sacrafice one's own life for the good of others. Few would do that if they thought there was no after life. \n\nMost major religions promote harmony among citizens. Some are openly pacifistic. This can be a hinderance or a help to society depending on the context. In times of war pacifists are not a help to a nation and every nation finds itself at war or depends on a stronger nation to protect it. Where there no promise of punishment it would raise aggression levels in societies and between societies. Given that all of the major religions promote peace and discourage war as basic tennents I think a world without relgion would mean a world with more wars. \n\nYes there are many examples of religious wars. As often as not they have stronger and deeper roots. For example the Crusades were not a religious war to the leadership of either side. Religion was only a way to motivate the commoner to die in the power struggles between two cultures. \n\nEthnic cleansing comes in many forms and much of it is because of actions not actual religion. The strife in Northern Ireland is more a nationalistic (native Irish against English imigrants who never assimilated into or assimilated the natives into their culture). It was not just Christian against Muslim it was ancient invaders and people who sided with or against the Nazis and other invaders which caused the deep hatreds that bubbled into Bosnian ethnic cleansing. \n\nAll of the ills attribute
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There is only one way to avoid this issue: why are religions tax exempt? If they were not tax exempt, then the government could stay out of it.\n\nOrganizations that earn money and own property should be considered businesses. There should not be favorable treatment given to people who want to spend their spare time praying versus those who want to spend their spare time bowling. To each his own.\n\nJesus said it himself: Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.
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Yes my Friend, what is God , It's believe and believe is in side you ,if you heart and mind is agree with you and then answer is yes.No God is for money making,but now These priests and other peoples made it money making sou res.
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Go to Bank or as Money lenders are very expensive