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onager

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18. Robert Heinlein nailed it...

Wed Mar 26, 2014, 01:58 PM

Mar 2014

"The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history."

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Good grief -- I honestly had no idea! [View all] theHandpuppet Mar 2014 OP

The Roman Catholic Church? Hypocritical? Surely they jest! Act_of_Reparation Mar 2014 #1

Well, at least they pay their taxes. Oh, wait.... mr blur Mar 2014 #2

My thought exactly. nt Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #8

I am repeatedly told 'most churches are poor and barely scrape by'. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #3

Yeah, I hear that line all the time theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #4

To be fair, there's a big difference between diocesan and parish finances Act_of_Reparation Mar 2014 #5

By design. AtheistCrusader Mar 2014 #6

But ... but ... Popey washed a guy's feet! Arugula Latte Mar 2014 #7

I am confused. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #9

Accounting is not my field and I don't know Australian law, TxDemChem Mar 2014 #10

That's the sad part of this. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #11

I know! I had to chuckle when you couldn't make heads or tails of it. TxDemChem Mar 2014 #12

And that is just what the church acts like it is doing. Curmudgeoness Mar 2014 #13

They are frauding and perpetrating. TxDemChem Mar 2014 #15

Something seems a little off. defacto7 Mar 2014 #14

But the more you dig, the more you find out just how deep those pockets are theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #16

My eyeballs have popped out so far now they're knockin' my nose... theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #17

It does make sense, it's just that defacto7 Mar 2014 #20

Robert Heinlein nailed it... onager Mar 2014 #18

Hard to wrong quoting RAH! Jgarrick Mar 2014 #19