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The non-prophet business of buying and selling God’s free gifts for filthy lucre is what earned mystery Babylon its designation as “the great whore”.
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It’s Just Business As Usual
"Business is business! And business must grow, regardless of crummies in tummies,
you know (Rev. 10:9-10)." – from
The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss
Organized religion is a
BUSINESS.
Its retail outlets are
TEMPLES (
Acts 7:48;
17:24), aka churches, synagogues, mosques, etc., depending upon the brand name being franchised.
FRANCHISE NAMES include: “
Judaism”, “
Christianity”, “
Islam”, “
Buddhism”, “Hinduism”, “Sikhism”, “Taoism”, etc., although the niche markets, aka sects, cults, branches and denominations, etc., which number into the thousands, carry a variety of different names.
The corporate officers and
PRIMARY SALES STAFF carry titles such as priest, pastor, rabbi, imam, teacher, preacher, father, deacon, bishop, cardinal or
pope, etc.
The product that they sell is
ILLUSION. The
illusion of salvation (
John 3:13), or of goodness/righteousness (
Rom. 3:10-12), or of a mediated relationship with God (
1 Tim. 2:5). Or the illusion of fellowship with other paying customers, or “peace of mind” (
John 14:27), or forgiveness without repentance, or maybe the “package deal” for those who want it all and believe they can afford it (
Matt. 6:1-8). And the most important illusion of them all? That they are allegedly the sole proprietors of these things
for a price (
Acts 8:18-23), as if in
reality (
Sura 31:30), we cannot obtain everything we need directly from God and free of charge.
The marketing strategy is simple:
COMPETITION. This comes both as external competition against other name brands and also as internal competition for franchise expansion and resource acquisition. Repeat customers and those willing to actively advertise and recruit for their brand name are honoured amongst the other paying customers in a pyramid scheme (
John 5:44).
And don’t forget that competition requires
DIVISION (two or more competing parties), to pay dividends to the shareholders while keeping the paying customers/marks (target market) in a constant state of war, over these
assumed product differences. Get rid of all of this
monkey business, and there would be no confusion and no more
war, which is also a business.
The Roman Catholic church (RCC) is the wealthiest business empire on the planet; owning more stock, real estate,
GOLD and other precious metals, money, paintings, artefacts, and worldly treasures than
ANY other organization on Earth. They control vast resources through the world’s financial institutions, the Babylonian/Roman market system and its supporting legal system based upon Roman “law”, hoarding that wealth whilst millions starve to death, in complete contradiction to Christ’s
TRUE Teachings (
Matt. 6:24;
Mark 12:31;
Luke 18:25;
John 12:25;
Thomas 5:6-8). Their favoured trading status as a corporate fictional “non-profit” organization, among the corporate fictional governments of this world, allows them to transcend not only
international borders, but the legislated taxes and fees, regardless of where they operate. Quite the trojan horse.
God does
NOT need money, nor a corporate infrastructure, nor a sales force dressed up in silly, expensive costumes waving to the thronging crowds from behind bullet-proof glass, nor a marketing campaign, nor a sound-track, nor a store-front. God made this world and everything in it, and doesn’t need nor have
ANYTHING to sell.
All God has ever wanted is to be an invited guest in the hearts and minds of those who genuinely desire to
KNOW Him and
LOVE Him. That way, He can teach us how to differentiate right from wrong, good from evil (
Deut. 30:15-20) and Love from hatred, so that we
LEARN what Love for one another
really is (
John 13:34).
How could learning to play nicely together
EVER involve defrauding and stealing from one another? Isn’t that – the transfer of wealth by any available means – the
SINGULAR goal of
ALL business, i.e. the corporate “bottom-line”?
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. YE CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MATERIALISM.