If you could invest in the "religious stock market", which religion(s) would you put your $ into and why?

Question

Consider that like a business... overall growth, integrity, and satisfied customers (church members) shoots your stock up; while fraud, discontent, and apathy drags it down.

Which churches would you avoid?

Don't say none, that's boring. Imagine you *had* to put $1,000 somewhere.

Answer 1

Agnosticism

Answer 2

The contrarian in me is going to go this way.

Things to avoid , Fundamentalism in general is a failure of the followers to exersize good due dilligence on the part of their chosen faith, by extension it is a failure ultimately as no religious text - to my knowledge - can be successfully fully literally interpreted without causing the "interpreter" to have to go into verbal or logistical contortions for everything to "work".

From a physical perspective, it's maybe like the big fancy car that requires you electrocute yourself a little bit to get it to turn left or right. That car might sound cool, and you might even choose to drive it around a little while but sooner or later the shocks just become annoying and therefore it's a bad investment long term.

If I HAD to pick a christian faith, I'm going with either Unitarians or Catholics, both are fairly straightforward but the Catholics tend to be too dogmatic both tend to be consistent in their messages and not given to huge extremes - at least any more.

Right now among the big 3 , Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, I'm going with Christianity since, like it or not Christians stand the best chance of getting off-world first and thus barring some anti-christian alien scourges throughout every inhabitable world, would appear to be the best long term investment.

But there's a big "IF" here, since some factions of Christians and Islamsists have started indulging in Crusades 2.0 (new improved - with Nukes and Bioweapons). It could go very bady very quickly for either side and probably both.

The Jewish faith - of course - we can all agree , started it all - (from the Mosiac perspective at least). And may very well end
up being exterminated - for real this time, just by being in the cross-fire. If anyone thinks Brooklyn is any less in the this Crusader's/Jihadi's war than Tel Aviv, well, it's probably not.

If you were looking for best long term investment from the soft-sell perspective, Go with Buddism/Taoism or some sort of Neo-stoicism or something since the more rational / less dangerous the faith the more likely it is to stand the test of time - ultimately.

Answer 3

I could disagree with your employer modeling to start up with. Fraud and discontent have been efficient forces for advance. on the different hand i might divide my investment between the Christian church and the Muslim church. One being born in love and passive resistance, the different in hate and forced subscription. the two having resorted to concern and succumbed to conflict at cases will advance the sales for the two. akin to the oil companies now whilst crude is going up isn't it? the two stressful tribute in cases of peace. And the two feeding off the different and gaining magnitude by using fact of the different. the two one with the help of themselves turns into passe and the ensuing apathy might cut back the "kind" loyalty and sales. the suited place to be - financially a minimum of - in a conflict is merchandising palms to the two factors.

Answer 4

It costs nothing to accept a gift freely given. There is no deal to be made with God, you either serve God or you don't, the rest is B.S. God is not the author of confusion, nor is He a religious stock broker. God isn't even religious, if it is confusing to you, it's not of God. The blogbaba is not a religious man or a preacher, but I have to tell you I am not ignorant of the existence of God either.

Once you encounter the Holy Spirit of that Christian Trinity that our little minds try and confine God to, and get past all the ignorant idiots slamming it or ridiculing it, you must acknowledge truth as you understand truth to be. You are no longer free to claim ignorance. Christ is either God in human form, or the victim of a pretty big lie. Either way, no harm is done in accepting the salvation offered by Christ, and if he was God a great deal of harm may be done in not accepting it.

I'm not a prophet or a theologian, just a man. Christ was more, deal with it as you see fit. No other religious school of teaching comes close to the truth of Christianity. No ridicule or threat can change the reality of truth.

Answer 5

Kudos,(chuckle) particularly for thinking just like the ceo types associated with, especially, "christianity". To them with their robber baron/used car salesman level consciousness, it's all about money, isn't it? Never have so many been led down the path of mediocrity, hypocracy and insincerety as is occuring currently. By cynical troglodytes with their eyes only on the bottom line. Will they never learn? ted haggard, jimmy swaggart, pat robertson jim and tammi(y?), "elmer gantry", et. al. What a culture, what a civilization. In the words of someone with some wisdom: "the human race is not even pathetic".

Answer 6

I'd invest in:

Buddhism
Hedonism

I'd avoid: Any religion that denies one's humanity, such as: Christianity, Islam.

Of course it really would depend on the definition of satisfaction. People who ate stale bread their entire life would probably be satisfied with stale bread until the day came where they had a nice sandwich.

Answer 7

Well, muslims have a lot of oil so they don't really need much faith.

Jews don't have much land, but they're the chosen people, therefore they don't need much faith either.

On the other hand, christians don't have oil, faith, and are not chosen, yet somehow they're competition!

Best business ever. they find a "holy man" , make him "god" , crucify him, blame everyone else for it, resurrect him, send him to heaven, and sell it to people. I'll put my money on them!0!

Answer 8

Anything that supports Roman Catholism, Anglican, or the Greek Orthodox.
These religions help catholic school boards, therefore they are beneficial to children of education.

Answer 9

Christianity.
In the end they shall be the ones to be taken into the kingdom and spared from the trials of the end times.

Answer 10

zen/ christian. that's where i'd put my money. i'd avoid the churches who don't practice what they preach for certain. pretty much all of them.