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ISNT RELIGION JUST A CON?

THE SO CALLED AGENTS OF GOD,, PEDDLING FEAR AND SUPERSTITON FOR MONEY,,,.SELLING STAIRWAYS TO HEAVEN,,,GOD IS REAL AND YOU DONT NEED A PREACHER OR A BIBLE TO SPEAK TO HIM AND HE DOESNT NEED OUR MONEY

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Religion is without a doubt, the world's oldest scam. It has cruelly enslaved the human mind for thousands of years. It's a virus, a plague!

  • 8 years ago

    Strange that you consider helping to meet the needs of the needy is considered a con! What kind of person ARE you, anyway?

    The Bible says that true religion is to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless, etc., etc. but obviously, you are against helping others.

    When it's YOUR turn - when you lose everything to a tornado or earthquake or tsunami, and people come in to help, make sure you reject their help, because you would otherwise be playing the hypocrite, since you reject religion so much!

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  • Gary B
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    HE doesn't need money, but WE need money here on earth in order to complete the work He has assigned to us through the "Love your neighbor as yourself" law taught by Jesus.

    When you give money to ANY charitable organization (United Way, American Cancer Society, Muscular Dystrophy Association [MDA], etc), you expect that money to be used to help a certain group of people.

    But it takes a certain amount of organization to complete that task, and many of these organizations spend some of YOUR money to pay "executives" and board members. There are also certain other costs, like mailings, office space, and so on.

    In one of those groups listed above, it has been found that for every Dollar YOU give to that organization, $0.65 actually goes to the needful child. $0.35 of every dollar donated -- approximately 1/3 of all funds -- is used to PAY EXECUTIVES!.

    In some cases, you don't know where your dollar will go. One of these organizations is actually a prime source of support for Planned Parenthood, the world's largest Abortion Provider. Thus, some of the money you donate is actually spent to KILL CHILDREN.

    But when you give your money to the church, $0.95 of every dollar you donate actually goes to help the poor and needy! The ONLY requirement is that the people who are helped must listen to the doctor, nurse, psychologist, social worker, or even the truck drive or airplane pilot tell them about how this work is being done by unpaid volunteers in the name of God Jehovah

    Use your powers to "speak to God" and ask that MORE money be given to the church such that MORE people may be helped and that more people can hear AND SEE the loving grace of God.

    AND, as an example, YOU need to up the mount that YOU give to the church.

  • 8 years ago

    Ya got to give a 10% tax to belong to one

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    Now that is kind of pushing it a little

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    When I walk into a multi million dollar building of a church

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    With some people in that same church penny pinching to give that are living on Social Security checks

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    Does kind of push the god thing a little to the extremes

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  • 8 years ago

    No. It is also a control system, a system of appeasement, an excuse to not take responsibility for ones own actions and a comfort blanket. It is, in a sentence, a boil on the butt of humanity.

    Source(s): I think therefore I am Atheist.
  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    "ISNT[sic] RELIGION JUST A CON?"

    Absolutely.

    "GOD IS REAL"

    Naahhh... god is imaginary and ONLY exists because of religion.

    If there was no religion to push the message of god...

    'God' would have met the same fate as Zeus...

    Religions are the delivery systems for gods...

    ~

  • 8 years ago

    ok religion started off something good but like many powerful things in this world man twisted for its own selfish gain

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    The Pope stands on the balcony of a Palace proclaiming his employees drive "humble cars" and use cheap phones.

    You tell me.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Are you going to end up in God's rubbish trash desposal called hell like so many,so many others?

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    There are no "agents" between my Divine Father and me.

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